​It is crucial that all South Africans support campaigns against the rape culture in our country, writes Prof Louise du Toit of the Department of Philosophy in an opinion piece published in Cape Times on Tuesday (12 April 2016). Read the...

Are we suppressing one of Mother Nature's oldest and most effective bug-fighting mechanisms by force-feeding patients when they have lost their appetite during an infection? A Phd student in physiological sciences from Stellenbosch...

​Underwater hockey players from 17 countries gathered in Stellenbosch from 23 March to 2 April for the 19th CMAS Underwater Hockey World Championship hosted in Coetzenburg's state-of-the-art Olympic-size swimming pool. A total of 44 teams...

Two Maties Parasport stalwarts, Ilse Hayes and Dyan Buis, were named South Africa's sportswoman and sportsman of the year with a disability at the SA Sports Awards evening on Sunday. Ilse, who concluded a career of 16 years with a silver...

SU Teaching Excellence Awards 2017 Stellenbosch University initiated an annual system of institutional teaching excellence awards in 2017. The awards were designed to acknowledge excellent teaching at institutional level and offered an...

​Broadening student access and success, enhancing research excellence, accelerating transformation of the staff body and ensuring relevance of the curriculum. These are the four core elements Prof Ingrid Woolard, newly appointed dean of the...

The medical programme (MB,ChB) of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (FMHS) is currently being renewed with the aim of making the curriculum more pragmatic for students, and more responsive to the health needs of the population. It...

​Athletes participating at the Paralympics can suffer from illness and injury during competition and therefore prevention strategies are needed to help them perform at their best. This was one of the viewpoints of Prof Wayne Derman from the...

​ Prof Hester Klopper, Deputy Vice-Chancellor: Strategy and Internationalisation at Stellenbosch University (SU), has recently been elected to serve on the Council of the Consortium Universities for Global Health (CUGH) based in Washington...

​Prof Leopoldt van Huyssteen, Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Stellenbosch University (SU), is looking forward to his retirement at the end of November, especially to the freedom that he will have to tackle his long list of projects. Even...