​This article was originally published on Daily Maverick . Read the full article here . Since the Covid-19 pandemic reached South Africa, many households have experienced changes to their refuse collection schedules. Most of these delays...

Thanks to the work of four academics from across the globe, the travelogue of one of South Africa's leading black intellectuals of the early 20 th century, the late Professor DDT (Davidson Don Tengo) Jabavu of Fort Hare University, has been...

​​A new national facility for water and soil analysis is currently being set up at Stellenbosch University. The new facility will form one of the nodes of BIOGRIP, a national research infrastructure platform hosted by UCT and with nodes at...

​A new addition to the Fluorescence Microscopy Unit’s array of equipment at the Stellenbosch University’s Tygerberg Campus.​ Imagine having access to an instrument capable of taking single-cell analysis by flow cytometry to the next level...

​In October 2020, leading industry publication The Analytical Scientist announced the release of its annual Power List. The Power List celebrates the tremendous range of talent, ingenuity and leadership present across all corners of...

​LC-MS is an important tool in metabolomics studies. An example of such work at the LCMS laboratory is the recently published papers by our PhD student, Keabetswe Masike who used it to study leaf blackening in Proteas. ​​​​​​ She further...

How respiratory structures vary with, or are constrained by, an animal's environment is of great importance to see the differences in evolutionary development and for comparative physiology hypotheses. It is challenging to investigate the...

For Dr Martin Venter, one of the recipients of Stellenbosch University (SU) Teaching Excellence Awards 2020–2021, teaching is a tough but rewarding profession. This senior lecturer at the department of Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering...

​​​​Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) is a powerful tool for topological, morphological and chemical analysis of a broad range of samples. Few analytical instruments rival the breadth of application in the study of solid-state materials...

During the month of May, Prof Wim de Villiers, Rector and Vice-Chancellor of Stellenbosch University (SU), in partnership with the Centre for Student Recruitment and Career Advice (CSR), hosted Bloemfontein, Kimberly, Oudtshoorn and George...