Posted on July 17, 2025
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 Natural and Agricultural Sciences (NAS).
Posted on July 04, 2025
Professor Nigel Bennett, the current Austin Roberts chair of African mammalogy and past DSTI-NRF chair of Mammal Behavioural Ecology and Physiology, celebrated his 500th publication in October 2024.
Posted on July 03, 2025
Prof Cobus Visagie from the Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology and the Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI) recently received the prestigious Johanna Westerdijk Award for outstanding contribution to the culture collection of the Westerdijk Fungal...
Posted on July 01, 2025
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 of the African Academy of Sciences (AAS).
Posted on June 30, 2025
A collaboration agreement between the European Hygienic Engineering and Design Group (EHEDG) and the University of Pretoria (UP) marks a significant milestone in the food safety/hygiene education field in South Africa and Africa. This agreement is even more noteworthy because UP is the first...
Posted on June 20, 2025
Who would have thought that the curiosity sparked during a family holiday at a game reserve would lead to endless research possibilities in the Waterberg? In 2021, Prof Nigel Barker from the Department of Plant and Soil Sciences received almost R4.5m from the Foundational Biodiversity...
Posted on June 13, 2025
Prof Ara Monadjem, a biodiversity specialist from the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Eswatini, has been appointed as the new Head of the Department of Zoology and Entomology at the University of Pretoria from 1 June 2025.
Posted on June 10, 2025
The NAS Faculty newsletter's first edition for 2025 (May 2025), SquaredUP, is now available.
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