Dr Alison Leslie of the Department of Conservation Ecology and Entomology has won the prestigious IUCN-Crocodile Specialist Group (CSG) Costello Award for Crocodile Conservation. It recognises her contribution to crocodile research in...

The excellence of staff and students of the Faculty of AgriSciences have been acknowledged in many ways over the past few months – from food science to horticulture and meat science. Prof Pieter Gouws of the Department of Food Science was...

​Calvin Ullrich was recently named as the top master's student in the Faculty of Theology. Stellenbosch University (SU) honoured those students who excelled in areas ranging from academics to leadership at the annual Rector's Awards for...

An outreach project, where researchers were meant to teach the community about health and science, turned out to be a valuable lesson for scientists who learned about the lives and challenges of the communities they aim to serve through...

Dr James Lloyd from the Institute for Plant Biotechnology (IPB) attended the 2016 Frontiers 2 nd Editors' Summit in Champéry, Switzerland. He helps run the Plant Biotechnology section of Frontiers in Plant Science, the largest open access...

In an article published on The Conversation website of Friday (4 November 2016), Prof Maureen Robinson, Dean of the Faculty of Education at Stellenbosch University, writes how her faculty is helping to prepare prospective teachers to deal...

Prof Andreas Diacon was awarded the 2016 Scientific Prize at the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease Conference recently held in Liverpool, UK. Diacon is an associate professor at Stellenbosch University's Faculty of...

During this programme participants will, together with other newly appointed lecturers from different disciplines, be given the opportunity to reflect on their views, knowledge and assumptions about teaching, learning and assessment within...

As part of its 60th-anniversary celebrations, the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences is introducing 60 future healthcare professionals who are currently in their first year. Meet Realeboga Mothupi. Everybody dies, but not everybody...

​​​This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. A significant amount of tuberculosis research in recent years has been focused on combating the bacterial lung disease by treating it with drugs that...