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Nobel Foundation's Nobel Symposia coming to Africa for the first time
Nobel in Africa is a Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS) initiative in partnership with Stellenbosch University and is hosted under the auspices of the Nobel Foundation and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, with funding...
EMS Dean among top scholars honoured
Prof Ingrid Woolard, Dean of the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences at Stellenbosch University (SU), and Prof Stan du Plessis, a former Dean of the same Faculty and now SU's Chief Operating Officer, were among the 29 leading...
MGD wraps up focus group engagements to prepare for intended incorporation into SU
The 58-year-old non-governmental organisation, Matie Community Service (better known as MGD – Matie Gemeenskapsdiens, in Afrikaans), is wrapping up a number of focus group engagements with various stakeholders in the lead-up to its...
Four-day work week not a ‘magic bullet’
Will a four-day work week be a hit in South Africa? This was the question Prof Mark Smith, Director of the Stellenbosch Business School, explored in a recent Stellenbosch Forum lecture. The lecture, the eight and last in the series for...
Student’s enterprise to be featured internationally
Final-year Sustainable Development student Gafsa Adam has found early success as an entrepreneur after her jewellery business was selected to be featured on American online marketplace ShopConsciously, where it will be exposed to...
Prof Jonathan Jansen: an activist for excellence
Not many A1 rated academics can among their outputs and citations list that their tweets in support of Springbok rugby were quoted in newspapers. But such is the nature and public following of Prof Jonathan Jansen, distinguished professor...
Can SA universities be incubators of ‘societal good’?
How can universities in South Africa play a bigger role in the development of society? This was the question Prof Aslam Fataar (Department of Education Policy Studies / Transformation Office) explored in a recent article for University...
Stigmatisation of functional seizures under the spotlight during Mental Health Awareness Month
Functional seizures (FS) – observable paroxysms of altered behaviour or movement with or without a loss of consciousness – is a serious mental illness and can have negative effects on the quality of life and functioning of people with...
SU's fossil expert returns with great news from expedition in Mongolia
A discovery of multiple fossil assemblages and ash deposits in the Eastern Gobi basin in Mongolia could reveal new knowledge of dinosaurs and extreme climate conditions that existed on Earth 120 to 80 million years ago. This is according...
Maths lecturer attends prestigious Heidelberg Laureate Forum
A junior lecturer and PhD student in Mathematical Sciences, Jacques Rabie, rubbed shoulders with some of the top researchers in his field at the Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF) in Germany recently. He was one of 200 young researchers from...