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Celebration of top academic performers in Forest and Natural Resource Sciences.
The culmination of the 2024 academic year and graduation of the 4-year BSc Forest and Natural Resource Science students was extra special in that two students earned the famous Sir Wilhelm Schlich medals. Ms Anneke Joubert (picture below...
Zimbabwean activist Namatai Kwekweza urges youth to ‘show up’
Prevented from speaking at last year's 12th annual Frederik Van Zyl-Slabbert (FVZS) Honorary Lecture because she was detained at the airport in Zimbabwe, democracy activist Namatai Kwekweza was last week able to share her reflections on 30...
#GivingMaties campaign kicks off: A call to action for student support
Stellenbosch University (SU) is once again rallying staff, students, alumni, and friends of the University to come together for SU's annual #GivingMaties campaign, running from 6 March to 16 April 2025. The campaign aims to raise funds for...
SU staff and students write prolifically in 2016
Stellenbosch University (SU) is a frontrunner in research and a place of thought leadership. Our staff and students write academic articles for accredited journals and also perform very well when it comes to sharing their insights with the...
#GivingMaties campaign kicks off: A call to action for student support
Stellenbosch University (SU) is once again rallying staff, students, alumni, and friends of the University to come together for SU's annual #GivingMaties campaign, running from 6 March to 16 April 2025. The campaign aims to raise funds for...
New species of killifish from Kenya already critically endangered
A critically endangered new species of killifish sampled from an ancient forest in Kenya in 2017 and 2018 has been described in the journal Zootaxa. Nothobranchius sylvaticus, from the Latin meaning “pertaining to the forest", is also the...
SU rises in 2025 QS global subject rankings
Stellenbosch University (SU) started 2025 on a high note. In January, it was ranked as one of the world's leading higher education institutions in the 2025 Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings (WUR) by Subject. Most...
Effective communication: A workshop on confident public speaking and presentation
This workshop aims to equip lecturers with the necessary presentation skills to become confident public speakers. Participants will gain both theoretical and practical knowledge of successful public speaking and presenting. The session is...
New treatments for chronic kidney disease show promise, remain expensive and inaccessible
World Kidney Day is celebrated annually on the second Thursday of March (13 March in 2025). In an opinion piece for the Daily Maverick, Prof Yazied Chothia from the Division of Nephrology writes that even though new treatments have...
Triple-Helix event boosts ties between Stellenbosch and Groningen Universities
In a world facing much political turbulence, wars, and geopolitical uncertainty, it is more important than ever for universities globally to guard their academic freedom and work together to tackle the multiple problems facing humanity...