Posted on October 13, 2025
Professor Hettie Schönfeldt, an internationally recognised expert in nutrition from the University of Pretoria (UP), appointment as a member of the Steering Committee of the High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition (HLPE-FSN) for 2025-2027 has been renewed.
Posted on September 16, 2025
The South African Association of Food Science and Technology (SAAFoST)’s biennial Congress and Exhibition, which brings together academia, researchers, and food industry stakeholders, was not only hosted on the University of Pretoria (UP) ’s doorstep this year, but staff and students...
Posted on September 08, 2025
The NAS Faculty newsletter's second edition for 2025 (August 2025), SquaredUP, is now available
Posted on September 02, 2025
Tintswalo Molelekoa, a PhD candidate in Plant Pathology at the University of Pretoria (UP), has been named one of the *Mail & Guardian Top 200 Young South Africans 2025.
Posted on August 29, 2025
Prof Sanushka Naidoo, Professor in the Department of Biochemistry, Genetics (BGM) and Microbiology and the Programme Leader of the Forest Molecular Genetics and Eucalyptus and Pine Pathogen Interactions Programme (FMG-EPPI) group at the Forestry Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI), was...
Posted on August 27, 2025
Professor Jacek Banasiak, holder of the DSI/NRF SARChI Chair in Mathematical Models and Methods in Biosciences and Bioengineering at the University of Pretoria, has recently received an **A2-rating from the National Research, becoming the ninth A-rated researcher currently in the Faculty of...
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 December 12, 2024
The NAS Faculty newsletter's second edition (November 2024), SquaredUP, is now available.
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