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Register your social impact initiatives
Stellenbosch University staff members who play an active and pivotal social impact role through research, learning and teaching, volunteerism, special programmes and the building and servicing of partnerships in society are asked to...
Faculty of Science boasts with two Havenga-prize winners in 2018
Two scientists from the Faculty of Science were awarded the prestigious Havenga-prize for Life Sciences and Physical Sciences respectively from the Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns. The Havenga prize is an annual award for...
Faculty's top lecturers honoured
The 2018 winners of the top lecturer competition of the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences were honoured at a prestigious event at Towerbosch Restaurant on Friday, 12 October. Mrs Sophia Brink of the School of Accountancy is the...
Barefoot children have better balance, also jump further
A study by researchers from South Africa and Germany found that young children who grow up walking barefoot have better balance and can also jump further than children who wear shoes. “Our research has shown that regular physical activities...
Maties Sport celebrate excellence at awards ceremony
Hockey player Ammaarah Hendricks and rugby player Duncan Saal were named Maties Sport's Sportswoman and Sportsman of the Year for 2018 at the annual Maties Sport Awards on Monday, 15 October. Ammaarah could not attend the event as she was...
Nine student-athletes honoured at Rector's Awards
Nine Maties Sport student-athletes were among the 87 students honoured by Stellenbosch University (SU) at the recent annual Rector's Awards for Excellent Achievement. At this event, SU honoured students who excelled in areas ranging from...
FMHS paediatrician selected to influential academy
Dr Amy Slogrove, a senior lecturer in Paediatrics and Child Health in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, was recently selected as a member of the South African Young Academy of Science (SAYAS). The academy – established in 2011 –...
December Graduation 2018
The awarding of degrees, diplomas and certificates (including doctoral degrees and honorary doctorates) will take place in the Coetzenburg Centre at the Coetzenburg sport grounds from 10 - 14 December 2018.Graduates to arrive two hours...
Emanuel Derman delivers Thys Visser Commemorative Lectures
The 2018 Thys Visser Commemorative Lecture Series kicked off on Monday night with a lecture, A Stylized History of Quantitative Finance, by Prof Emanuel Derman of Columbia University. It was followed on Tuesday by the second in the series...
Vice-Chancellors of foremost UK and USA universities among recipients of SU honorary degrees
Current and former vice-chancellors of three leading universities in the UK and the USA are among the latest group of recipients of honorary degrees from Stellenbosch University. The world's premier postcolonial literary theorist, the...