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The gut microbiome helps to keep us in tip-top shape
World Microbiome Day was celebrated recently (27 June). In an opinion piece for Health24, Lauren Martin, Natasha Kitchin & Matsepo Ramaboli from the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences write that the human gut microbiome — the...
2023 applications for current SU students open
Dear StudentAs you may know, Stellenbosch University (SU) is currently implementing a new student information system, SUNStudent. If you intend applying to start a new programme in 2023, you will be part of the first current SU students to...
Construction underway on state-of-the-art Horti Demo Centre
Students at Stellenbosch University (SU) will soon have access to a state-of-the-art Horti Demo Centre, which is under construction at the University's Welgevallen Experimental Farm. In May this year, the cornerstone for the 3 000 m 2 large...
Herman Wasserman new chair of Journalism at SU
Stellenbosch University has appointed renowned media scholar Herman Wasserman as professor and chair of its Department of Journalism as of January 2023. Wasserman is currently professor of Media Studies at the University of Cape Town...
SU scholar wins prestigious fellowship at Oxford
A top academic at Stellenbosch University's (SU) Department of Modern Foreign Languages, Dr Gibson Ncube, has just heard he has been selected for a prestigious fellowship at the University of Oxford in England. The AfOx Visiting Fellowship...
Prof Herman Engelbrecht helps build systems for virtual worlds
Prof Herman Engelbrecht from the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering in the Faculty of Engineering at Stellenbosch University delivered his inaugural lecture on Thursday 9 November 2023. The title of his lecture was...
EDP student Shane now successful radio-frequency engineer
Returning from a gap year abroad, Shane Moyce applied to study Engineering at Stellenbosch University (SU). As there was no space left in the mainstream programme, he was admitted to the Extended Degree Programme (EDP) – something Shane...
Sport science lecturer conquers mountains (and fear) to help end period poverty
After a bout of Covid-19, sports science lecturer Dr Shaundré Jacobs was intent to take on the gruelling 13 Peaks Challenge to reboot her fitness, and she decided to add purpose to her run by raising money to end period poverty. The 13...
Earth science students shine at world’s largest conference on mineral exploration
Yann Waku and Steve Chingwaru, postgraduate students in the Department of Earth Sciences at Stellenbosch University (SU), recently walked away with the first and third prizes in the MSc online presentation category at the Prospectors and...
CDC hearing outcome - full finding
The disciplinary hearing of Mr Theuns du Toit, following an incident at Huis Marais on 15 May 2022, was concluded on 23 June 2022. On 21 July 2022 the independent Central Disciplinary Committee (CDC) of SU found Mr Du Toit guilty of...