Liezel Matthee, our Chief Director Facilities Management’s personal assistant, and her husband decided to explore the famous island of Mauritius a little differently this year: by canoeing around it, and visiting some beautiful sites for...

​Nelson Mandela and Ubuntu THE Stellenbosch University Museum, in partnership with the Nelson Mandela Museum, hosted the fourth annual Nelson Mandela Colloquium on Friday, 26 July 2019. The colloquium, themed “Nelson Mandela and Ubuntu"...

​​Using quantum dots as a tool to trace the pollen of the long-tubed iris, Lapeirousia anceps, evolutionary ecologists from Stellenbosch University have succeeded in capturing a snapshot of a plant in the process of speciation. Professor...

A SU Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences alumnus, whose road to success started in tragedy in a little-known country town and came to fruition at the SU Business School (USB), has won the 2019 Financial Planner of the Year award...

​Insects are important in the function of ecosystems as they are critical in pollination, nutrient cycling and pest control. These are the creatures that run our world

The future of our planet and the conservation of species and systems are in the hands of our youth. Research, education and engagement are just some of the tools that we use to aid our cause

​​After having matriculated with good grades from the Montebello High School in Durban, applying for medical school seemed like a no-brainer to Dr Sengeziwe Sibeko. All her school friends with good grades opted for life sciences. But the 18...

The African Union's animal production wing, Interafrican Bureau for Animal Resources (AU-IBAR) honoured top African animal geneticists for their contribution to a number of Pan-African initiatives and projects across the continent. Among...

A research project at the Department of Forest and Wood Science on alternative management regimes for South Africa's saw-log trees recently received a huge boost from a successful THRIP funding application to the government's Department of...

Prof Reinette (Oonsie) Biggs, incumbent of the DST/NRF Research Chair in Social-Ecological Systems and Resilience, delivered her inaugural lecture with the title Resilience: An approach to navigating towards more sustainable futures in the...