Awards and milestones
Celebrating Experiential Educators: The Appreciation Lunch and Ubuntu Awards
On 21 October 2025, the Unit for Experiential Learning, Centre for Student Life and Learning hosted the Experiential Educator Appreciation Lunch and Ubuntu...
Media release
Anita Nel honoured as Innovation Catalyst at Forbes Woman Africa Awards 2026
Anita Nel, Chief Director Innovation and Commercialisation at Stellenbosch University (SU), won the Innovation Catalyst Award. The award was presented at the...
Education
New cohort of Future Professors receive a warm welcome at introductory conference
At a time when universities worldwide are grappling with rapid technological change, evolving knowledge economies and shifting public expectations, a group of...
Media release
Hope in a time of fracture: Prof Tshepo Madlingozi joins Centre for Social Justice
If you see an elegant figure walking thoughtfully across the Stellenbosch University (SU) campus – composed, alert, quietly resolute – it may well be Prof...
Awards and milestones
Top first-year achievers shine at Vice-Chancellor’s Excellence Awards
Stellenbosch University (SU) honoured 37 of the country’s most outstanding matric achievers on Tuesday evening at the Vice-Chancellor’s Excellence Awards for...
Media release
SU’s ‘mountain goats’ run toward the flames
While many students glance at their phones during lectures to check messages or social plans, a small group of Stellenbosch University (SU) volunteers monitor...
Awards and milestones
Knowledge as a meadow of wildflowers: Florence de Vries’ doctorate blossoms in tribute and triumph
Some achievements in life require the observer to pause, reflect, and then express profound appreciation. Florence de Vries’ PhD in Philosophy (Journalism)...
Awards and milestones
Two SU lecturers combine academic accountability and financial freedom in unique stokvel
A stokvel that funds education, fights procrastination and invests in community upliftment has earned two Stellenbosch University (SU) lecturers top honours at...
Engineering and technology
SU Engineering students earn international recognition at IEEE BioDCASE 2025
Two postgraduate students from the Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering at Stellenbosch University have earned international recognition at one of...
Institutional news
SU leads continent in research output, new QS ranking shows
If the inaugural QS (Quacquarelli Symonds) World University Rankings (WUR): Sub-Saharan Africa is anything to go by, Stellenbosch University (SU) is well on its...