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Convocation meeting set for 23 November
Members of the Convocation of Stellenbosch University (SU) and their partners are invited to the annual meeting of the Convocation on Thursday, 23 November 2017. All SU graduates, diplomates, and full-time academic staff of SU are members...
Let’s get excited for the SU sports day for staff
The days are fast approaching! Are you ready for our annual SU Staff Sports Day? Date: 30 November 2017 Place: Coetzenburg sports grounds Time: 10h00 – 15h30 Please note that there is still time to enter your teams in the Tag rugby AND...
Prof Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela receives honorary doctorate from German university
The Friedlich Schiller University Jena in Germany bestowed an honorary degree upon Professor Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, Research Chair in Studies in Historical Trauma and Transformation at Stellenbosch University, on Monday (30 October...
The SU Plant Breeding Lab: a core part of the national Wheat Breeding Platform
Stellenbosch University's Plant Breeding Laboratory (SU-PBL) is a key partner in a national initiative that has its sights set on increasing the yields and boosting the profitability of wheat produced by South African farmers. The national...
Postdocs behind the podium
The audience sat up straight when sport scientist Dr Zarko Krkeljas began his talk on lower back pain at the annual Postdoc Research Day at Stellenbosch University. They watched closely as Dr Emma McKinney relayed ways with which to spot a...
SU reports on progress towards gender equality
Stellenbosch University (SU) made a presentation to the Commission for Gender Equality (CGE) in Johannesburg on Wednesday (1 Nov 2017) regarding progress at the institution towards gender equality. This stems from a request by the CGE, in...
Competition creates opportunities for students to develop practical skills
Stellenbosch students who participated in a data science competition hosted by Capitec in conjunction with the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science not only had to create models to solve a problem, but also had to present and...
No quick-fix solution to obesity-related diseases
A sugar tax in South Africa should be implemented in parallel with well-designed, long-term research studies that takes the South African context into account. So says Prof Faadiel Essop, head of the Cardio-Metabolic Research Group of the...
Future Maties explore the FMHS
A group of 47 matric learners from across South Africa recently visited Stellenbosch University's (SU) Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (FMHS) as part of the annual Visit@Tygerberg. “During the past 12 years, the Visit@Tygerberg...
Film screening reveals struggles of albinism and education
Social prejudice, family and education were just a few of the topics discussed at Stellenbosch University Museum's screening of As We See It, a documentary about living with albinism in South Africa. The film addresses challenges that...