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World Nature Conservation Day: Promote the sustainability and resilience of natural resources
World Nature Conservation Day is observed annually on 28 July. In an opinion piece for News24, Ancois de Villers, a PhD student in the Department of Conservation Ecology and Entomology, writes that we must promote the sustainability and...
CISU 2023 school education delegation gets inspiration in China
The 2023 Chinese Bridge school education delegation to China, jointly organised by the Confucius Institute at Stellenbosch University (CISU) and Xiamen University, embarked on a transformative ten-day expedition in September. Hailing from...
Helderberg Hospital: help raise funds to plant a fynbos garden
Stellenbosch University's (SU) Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (FMHS) is collaborating with non-profit organisation, Greenpop, to establish a fynbos garden at the 83-year old Helderberg Hospital in Somerset West and residents of the...
PredictTB provides a wealth of data enhancing our understanding of TB treatment
Aiming to advance tuberculosis (TB) treatment standards from the current practice of “one-size-fits-all" to precision-guided individualised therapy, the PredictTB research team led by Prof Gerhard Walzl (Stellenbosch University in South...
Meet SU’s GAUC ambassadors for global change
Four postgraduate students from Stellenbosch University (SU) will represent Africa in the world's first youth climate leadership training project: the ' Climate x' Leadership Training Pilot launched by the Global Alliance of Universities...
Government must take another look at its salt-reduction strategy
A few years ago, South Africa implemented an innovative strategy to help reduce citizens' high salt intake. Despite some initial success of the salt-reduction strategy, key role-players believe the government has failed to build on this...
First-year Achievement Awards
The First-year Achievement Awards event for the 2021 academic year was recently held. The First Year Achievement Awards aim to recognise top performing first-year students within each faculty as well as the lecturers who had a positive...
Memorial event celebrates varieties of Afrikaans
“Your way of speaking Afrikaans, although it may sound different to the way others speak the language, has exactly the same regularity and organisation as standard Afrikaans." These words by Dr Donovan Lawrence of the University of the...
Mia Andersen- "Remember your worth and how far you’ve come"
As part of commemorating women's month, we will profile some of the #WomenofSUI. This week we had a chance to chat with Mia Andersen. Mia Andersen started out her career at Stellenbosch University International (SUI) as an intern in...
Nineteen new researchers, lots of new research
Honours students from the Department of Afrikaans and Dutch attended a mini conference, covering a broad range of subjects and marking the start of a number of research careers. On Monday 1 August, 19 honours students from the Department...