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Ten of the fourteen University of Pretoria (UP) finalists for the 2024/2025 National Science and Technology Foundation (NSTF) Awards hail from the Faculty of...

Prof Cobus Visagie from the Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology and the Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI) recently...

Professor Nigel Bennett, the current Austin Roberts chair of African mammalogy and past DSTI-NRF chair of Mammal Behavioural Ecology and Physiology, celebrated...

Two professors from the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences (NAS), Prof Paxie W Chirwa and Prof Eugenie Kayitesi, have recently been elected as Fellows...

The NAS Faculty newsletter's first edition for 2025 (May 2025), SquaredUP, is now available. Click on either of the links below to read the newsletter: https:/...

Prof Baldwyn Torto, an Extraordinary Professor in the Department of Zoology and Entomology at the University of Pretoria (UP), was recently inducted into the...

Women’s Month: Focus on Prof Mapitsi Thantsha (Associate Professor and Chair of Microbiology Division in the(Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and...

Women’s Month: Focus on Rimbilana Shingange, UP PhD candidate. Q: Job title and in which department/research entity do you work? A: I am a Lecturer in the...

Professor Patricia Forbes from the University of Pretoria has been elected as the National Representative of the Analytical Chemistry division of the...

The first edition for 2024 (May 2024) of the NAS Faculty newsletter ( SquaredUP) is now available. Click on either of the links below to read the newsletter...

"Innovation and excellence come to mind when thinking of the Department of Consumer and Food Sciences at the University of Pretoria". This sentiment was...

Prof Belinda Reyers, Professor of Sustainability Science in the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, has spent the past five years working with the...

Professor Hettie C Schönfeldt, a professor in the Department of Animal Science in the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences (NAS) at the University of...

With unpredictable electricity, rainfall and municipal water supply, South African farmers may need faith like potatoes to manage crop irrigation. But...

'Save the Whales’ is more than another call by environmental activists. The retail giant Pick n Pay has partnered with the University of Pretoria's (UP) Mammal...

Gerhard Claasen, an alumnus with a master’s degree in Animal Nutrition, not only graduated cum laude in September 2023 but was also the overall winner of the...

“Fish don’t need passports; they can just move.” And boy, are they moving, says Dr Romina Henriques. She is a marine biologist in UP’s Department of...

Researchers say African public health systems should put measures in place to detect and report Listeria infections. Although this serious infection is not a...

The third edition for 2023 (December 2023) of the NAS Faculty newsletter (SquaredUP) is available Click on the link below to read the newsletter: https://www.up...

A mutually beneficial agreement was recently celebrated between the University of Pretoria’s (UP) Department of Actuarial Science and FirstRand Bank (FRB) to...