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Looking back on 2018 – highlights at the Institute for Plant Biotechnology
The year 2018 at the Institute for Plant Biotechnology (IPB) at Stellenbosch University was another busy and productive year. One of the core functions of the IPB is to train students. In this regard, research work completed during 2018...
SMEs need support to thrive – Prof Stan du Plessis
Micro-, Small, and Medium-Sized Enterprises Day is observed annually on 27 June. In an opinion piece for Business Day, Prof Stan Du Plessis, Chief Operating Officer of Stellenbosch University, writes that small and medium-sized...
Statement from Stellenbosch University (SU) and SA Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD):
Statement from Stellenbosch University (SU) and SA Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD): Academic freedom should be embraced, defended and never be taken for granted. This was the consensus at a meeting between representatives from Stellenbosch...
Post-graduate students 2019
Masters' and Doctoral students' intake for 2019 successfully finished their postgraduate research workshop and started their research journey in different parts of the country and across the continent. The workshop was held in the Erika...
Open Evenings - US botanical garden
Members of the public are invited to come and watch the opening of this large but delicate water lily, the victoria cruziana as it blooms its first evening in pure white, goes under water for the day, and comes up again in shades of deep...
Stellenbosch University well represented to secure win of best PhD presentation at IMSG 2019
From the 13th to 16th January 2019 the University of the Witwatersrand hosted the 11th Igneous & Metamorphic Studies Group Meeting at Kopjeskraal Guest Farm in Parys. (https://www.wits.ac.za/geosci…)Stellenbosch...
SciMathUS opens door for NRF researcher
When Gerald Maarman was in high school, he dreamed of becoming a medical doctor. However, when he completed his matric in 2002, his final Grade 12 results were not good enough to get him into university. But although his dream seemed like...
PanACEA fellowship advances pharmacometric research
“I feel honoured and encouraged". That is how Dr Ahmed Abulfathi, a consultant clinical pharmacologist at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Science's Division of Clinical Pharmacology, described his feelings on learning that he had been...
This is how we can stop violence and rape, says US employees and students
In support of the World Council of Churches's (WCC) worldwide movement, the Gender Unit of the Faculty of Theology at Stellenbosch University, launched its own Thursdays in Black campaign on February 7. The protest movement against all...
Nachega awarded AAS fellowship
Prof Jean Nachega was recently honoured by the African Academy of Science (AAS) when he was accepted as a fellow. Nachega is the Director of the Centre for Infectious Diseases, and an extraordinary professor in the Department of Medicine at...