​The British Ecological Society's Marsh award for climate change research has been awarded to Professor Wendy Foden, a world-leading researcher in climate change vulnerability assessments of threatened species. According to a media release...

​Questions and answers Due to the COVID-19 pandemic Stellenbosch University held its first virtual Staff Assembly on 5 August 2020. Staff members posed an array of questions, but not all questions could be answered during the meeting...

​​South Africa, along with many countries across the globe, is adopting far-reaching measures to deal with the Covid-19 pandemic. These have entailed many restrictions on fundamental civil and political liberties such as freedom of movement...

​Three chemists from Stellenbosch University have been recognised by the South African Chemical Institute (SACI) for their contribution to chemistry research, teaching and learning in South Africa. Prof Selwyn Mapolie was selected as a SACI...

Stellenbosch University (SU) is recognised locally and abroad for its research excellence and innovation. This has been confirmed once again by the latest Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings for 2021 that is released...

The decolonisation of science is possible, but then we must begin to recognise the influence of cultural heritage and Western modernity on the way science is being taught, write Drs Margaret Blackie (Department of Chemistry and Polymer...

Ralph McDougall, a second year engineering student from Stellenbosch University, was the overall winner of the ninth South African Tertiary Mathematics Olympiad (SATMO), held for the first time via an online platform on 22 August, due to...

​South Africa has been a pioneer in organ transplants for more than half a century. In 1966, it performed the first kidney transplant on the continent and, just a year later, it carried out the first heart transplant in the world. Yet...

​​​It is hard to imagine that sugar was virtually unknown a few hundred years ago. The past four decades have witnessed an increase in sugar consumption of 127% per capita, despite the fact that the World Health Organization (WHO)...

For two young scientists at Stellenbosch University (SU) August has been extra special when they found out that they had been nominated as finalists for the 2023 South African Women in Science Awards (SAWiSA). In celebration of Women's...