Posted on October 29, 2021
You may not know it, but we're all engaging with statistics every day. “We're daily data detectives, spying for data that will inform our next move or major life decision.” – UP stats lecturer Dr Johan Ferreira.
Posted on August 16, 2021
Women's Month: Focus on Ms Gopika Ramkilawon
Posted on August 05, 2021
Women's Month: Focus on Prof Andriëtte Bekker
Posted on August 01, 2021
NAS celebrates Women’s month in style, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, Women’s Month
Posted on July 23, 2021
Meet Mr Manfred Molomo, Faculty Manager in the Dean’s Office in the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences (NAS), who was appointed to NAS in June this year.
Posted on July 08, 2021
UP alumnus Dr Hossein Masoumi Karakani has been ranked among the top 1% of data scientists globally after entering the rankings of @kaggle, the world’s largest data science community.
Posted on March 11, 2021
NAS Featured scientist: Prof Samuel Manda Extraordinary Professor in the Department of Statistics and Director of the Biostatistics Unit at the South African Medical Research Council
Posted on February 15, 2021
Welcome to NAS: Meet Dr Majika Jean Claude (JC) Malela who started his career at the University of Pretoria’s Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences (NAS) on 6 January 2021.
Posted on December 02, 2020
Dr Hossein Masoumi Karakani, who was awarded a PhD in Mathematical Statistics by the University of Pretoria (UP) in 2020, recently finished 129th out of 2 618 teams (including single-member “teams”, like Dr Karani’s) registered globally when he took part in a Kaggle competition....
Posted on December 01, 2020
You are cordially invited to a doctoral defense by Albert Mijburgh from the Department of Statistics, University of Pretoria with Dr Jaco Visagie, as supervisor and Prof Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan as co supervisor.
Posted on July 28, 2020
“Doing my PhD under the supervision of Prof Andriëtte Bekker and Prof Mohammed Arashi was like participating in the popular TV show, Amazing Race – which means that you better run!” This is how Dr Seite Makgai, the first African female lecturer in the Department of Statistics...
Posted on April 06, 2020
A team from the University of Pretoria’s (UP) Department of Statistics in collaboration with other international universities has developed what is believed to be the first interactive app in the country that provides real-time data on COVID-19 using R-Shiny (a statistical software package).
Posted on February 06, 2020
Latest T&L@NAS Bulletin (2020) now available
Posted on December 16, 2019
What started off as a departmental initiative grew exponentially and culminated in an awards ceremony where excellence in teaching was celebrated at Faculty level. At the last FLY@NAS event for 2019, cluster awards in all four clusters (Biological Sciences, Food and Agricultural Sciences,...
Posted on October 25, 2019
Not only did NATHouse win six awards at the annual Day and Faculty House Awards Ceremony hosted by the Division of Student Development (DSD) recently, but their Faculty Guardian, Dr Quenton Kritzinger, was also awarded as the Faculty Guardian of the Year. He also received this award in 2017.
Posted on October 02, 2019
Professor Barend Erasmus has been appointed as the Dean in the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences (NAS) at the University of Pretoria (UP) from 1 October 2019.
Posted on July 30, 2019
While the rest of the world is experiencing the so-called golden age of statistics, it has been declared a discipline in crisis by the South African Department of Science and Technology and the National Research Foundation, said Professor Andriëtte Bekker, Head of the Department of Statistics at...
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’.
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,...
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...
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