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Lockdown not keeping students from lighting up their research
Hanru Muller's masters topic is focused on luminescent concrete using luminescent aggregate. During the lockdown period he stayed on a farm and used the low light conditions and low light pollution as the ideal environment to conduct some...
First-year Achievement Awards
First-year Achievement Awards / Eerstejaars Prestasietoekennings / Amabhaso eMpumelelo waBafundi boNyaka wokuQala Top Achieving First-Year Students 2019 Lauren Badenhorst Tara Grobbelaar Lizè Myburgh Karabo Bapela Jessica...
FMHS staff and student volunteers keep experts up to date with latest COVID-19 info
In yet another example of how staff and students from the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (FMHS) at Stellenbosch University are rising to the challenge of COVID-19, a Daily Briefing, initiated by professors in the department of...
Climate warming could bring challenging times for invasive ladybirds
In South Africa, the invasive harlequin ladybird may ultimately not be able to adapt to climate change, despite the fact that it has successfully invaded four continents over the last two decades. This is the finding from a unique breeding...
A Matie in Italy, in a time of Covid-19
Thanks to the Covid-19 pandemic, the romantic European adventure that Liz Gleeson, a Stellenbosch University postgraduate student in Animal Sciences had envisaged as part of an academic exchange program to Italy, turned out quite...
Statistics and Actuarial Science delivers first joint doctorates
The Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science recently delivered its first ever joint PhDs with two Belgian universities, namely Ghent University and KU Leuven. The joint PhDs were awarded to Dr Carel van der Merwe, senior lecturer in...
Africa day 2020
This year, Stellenbosch University (SU) will celebrate Africa Day on 25 May 2020, starting with a message from Prof Hester Klopper, DVC Strategy and Internationalisation. Africa Day 2020: Uniting Africa amid the COVID-19 pandemic The year...
Stellenbosch University’s BioCODE first recipient of UTF funding
While you read this article, there will be at least 4 500 cancer fatalities and 8 000 from cardiovascular disease, according to the World Health Organisation. These statistics are exacerbated by the circumstances and lack of health care...
Moodley joins working group to oversee Paralympic research
The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has made quite an impact in athletics during its relatively short lifespan. Since its formation in September 1989, it has developed the biennial Paralympic Games into one of the premier sports...
Africa united in battle against COVID-19
On Monday (25 May) we celebrate Africa Day. In an opinion piece for News24, Dr Nico Elema from the Centre for Collaboration in Africa writes about how Africans are united in the battle against COVID-19. Read the complete article below or...