The ecstatic celebrations of graduation day sometimes obscure the harrowing struggles students and their families endure to make it to the finishing line. For Kayden Carelse, receiving an honours degree in logistics on 14 December was an...

Award-winning journalist Carryn-Ann Nel has overcome many obstacles in her long career, but the most difficult challenge she set for herself was to obtain a master's degree in journalism. Her graduation from Stellenbosch University (SU) on...

​​​​Africa's first deep underground science laboratory may become a reality in the next five to ten years with the establishment of the Paarl Africa Underground Laboratory (PAUL) in the Du Toits Kloof mountains in the Western Cape in South...

​Most people expect to receive gifts on their birthday, but Prof Karin Baatjes is using her next birthday to give one of the greatest gifts of all: education. To celebrate her 50 th birthday, Baatjes, who is the Vice Dean: Learning and...

Food security programmes and emergency relief

Community Engagement

​Cutting edge technology in the form of a muon detector on loan from the Institute of Physics of the Two Infinities (IP2I) in Lyon, France, will kick-start cosmic-ray research at Stellenbosch University (SU) and the University of the...

Visitors

Convocation documents and rules

The Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (FMHS) at Stellenbosch University (SU) mourns the passing of Prof Brian Warren, a highly regarded surgeon and teacher, and former head of the Department of Surgical Sciences. His long and...