Election of the President of Convocation

Posted on May 17, 2019

Dr Lieza Odendaal, a lecturer in Veterinary Public Health at the University of Pretoria’s Faculty of Veterinary Science, has been studying the complex Rift Valley Fever Virus (RVFV) for years – and her findings have offered the international community of veterinary pathologists...

Beating hunger: How aeroponics could provide the solution to feeding 10 billion people

Posted on May 17, 2019

On 15 May the Bernard Harrison & Friends Conservation Award for 2019 was presented to Dr Katja Koeppel, a wildlife veterinarian in the OP Faculty of Veterinary Science’s Department of Production Animals.

Test 1 Faculty vets restore order to Chaos, the lion’s face with radiation therapy

Posted on May 16, 2019

Chaos, a 16-year old lion from the Lory Park Zoo, yesterday underwent his second round of radiation for skin cancer at the Mediclinic Muelmed in Pretoria following the discovery of the condition by veterinarians in the Faculty of Veterinary Science at UP.

Faculty engages small-scale farmers as part of its Feedlot Challenge

Posted on April 30, 2019

The Department of Production Animal Studies in the University of Pretoria’s Faculty of Veterinary Science recently invited emerging small-scale feedlot farmers from the surrounding communities to participate in its annual Feedlot Challenge, which will run until 24 May.

Faculty hosts swine environment day

Posted on April 29, 2019

Every year on 1 March, National Pig Day is celebrated in the USA. In South Africa there is no such holiday but recently the Faculty of Veterinary Science, in conjunction with the SA Pork Producers’ Organisation (SAPPO), hosted a swine environment day

Vet Science graduates: It’s all in the family for us!

Posted on April 24, 2019

Two graduates from the University of Pretoria’s (UP) Faculty of Veterinary Science recently shared with Primarashni Gower why veterinary practice is in their blood.

What did these alumni do in the summer of ’69?

Posted on April 23, 2019

We will probably never know what students in the OP Class of 1969 did in the summer of ‘69 but the group that qualified at the end of that year recently held their 50th reunion near Pretoria at the Roodevalley Hotel in Kameeldrift East.

No time to rest – from research methodology to R to One Health

Posted on April 15, 2019

24 students from three different continents have successfully started the 2019 collaborative Masters in Tropical Animal Health degree programme.