First Soapbox at NAS with two renowned academics

Posted on April 05, 2019

Two seasoned academics from the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences (NAS), Prof Jan Verschoor (Biochemistry) and Prof Wentzel Schoeman (Chemistry) recently gave their own unique flavour to the term ‘soapbox’.

Latest T&L@NAS Bulletin (2019) now available

Posted on February 04, 2019

The second issue of the 2019 NAS T&L Bulletin was officially launched on 1 February 2019. According to Dr Rory Biggs from the Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, one of the editorial members of the Bulletin, "The T&L@NAS Bulletin aims to be a forum for sharing thoughts,...

Best undergraduate lecturers honoured in the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences

Posted on December 10, 2018

On the occasion of the annual breakfast hosted by the Dean of the Faculty of Natural Sciences on 29 November 2018, the winner of the award for Best First-year Lecturer, as well as the winner of the newly introduced award for Best Lecturer for Senior Courses were announced. The first of the...

SARChI Chair in Biostatistics to address public health issues

Posted on September 13, 2018

A Research Chair in Biostatistics, which will focus on solving inter-disciplinary health problems in Africa, such as tuberculosis, malaria, HIV/AIDS, cancer, substance abuse and Ebola, was launched recently at the University of Pretoria.

‘Lecturers should infuse statistics curriculum with data science’

Posted on June 08, 2018

Teaching of Statistics within a Data Science and Advance Analytics Paradigm was the title of a workshop presented from 30 May to 1 June 2018 by the Department of Statistics at the University of Pretoria (UP).

Nick de Beer recognised as Best First-year Lecturer in NAS

Posted on December 12, 2017

Mr Nick de Beer, a lecturer in Chemistry in the Faculty of Natural- and Agricultural Sciences (NAS) at the University of Pretoria, was voted the Best First-year Lecturer in the Faculty on 1 December 2017.

Fhatuwani Nemakhavhani – the first black female actuary from UP

Posted on December 11, 2017

'Don’t let your background determine your future. You should dream big and not be scared to venture into new territories.' These are the inspirational words of Miss Fhatuwani Nemakhavhani who recently became the first black female actuary from the University of Pretoria (UP).

Theodor Loots: Hope never disappoints

Posted on September 07, 2017

Dr Theodor Loots, the first blind man to obtain a master's degree in Mathematical Statistics with distinction, recently also completed a PhD in this field and graduated from the University of Pretoria on Wednesday, 6 September 2017.