During Fire Prevention Week (4–10 October) the focus is, among others, on reducing the risk of fires in informal settlements. In opinion pieces for Cape Times and The Conversation respectively, Patricia Zweig and Dr Robyn Pharoah from the...

​​​​ #Listenexpericetravelgrow SUI invites all Maties students to become Global Citizens! Every semester we host a global week the aim being to create a platform where students can engage with our staff and international partners regarding...

In the intricate web of scientific exploration, one thread stands out for its profound influence on clinical research and public health: bioinformatics. The week-long 27th International Bioinformatics & Virus Evolution & Molecular...

​Twenty shacks destroyed in five minutes. That's how quickly fires can spread in informal settlements. This is one of the major results of the world's largest informal settlement fire experiment consisting of twenty homes. The experiment...

So, I think it's safe to assume that almost all of us at one stage or another have woken up, tried to move and been like, “What the heck have I done?" As we lie there willing our aching muscles to move, we try and figure out what activity...

​​SU Teaching Fellowship 2021 Teaching fellowships were initiated at Stellenbosch University (SU) in 2009 with the aim of, inter alia, providing an opportunity for selected academics to develop their teaching expertise and stimulating the...

​​​​Cancer remains a formidable adversary that afflicts all communities without discrimination or boundaries. It impacts the lives of millions, making it a major, increasing public health problem worldwide. The year 2020 is the second of...

​In the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, doctors at Tygerberg Hospital implemented a daring, lesser-known treatment that not only bypassed the imminent ventilator shortage caused by the large number of critically ill patients, but...

Outgoing Department of Logistics stalwart Prof JH (Hannelie) Nel recently celebrated another milestone in her career when she delivered her inaugural lecture. Her online lecture entitled Bringing dietary data closer to the truth with...

Nobel Laureate Abhijit Banerjee headed a distinguished panel of speakers who commemorated the centenary celebrations of Stellenbosch University's (SU) Department of Economics during an online event on Friday, 9 October 2020. Banerjee...