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Meet Marietjie Swanepoel: #MyTygerMaties60
As part of its 60th-anniversary celebrations, the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences is introducing 60 future healthcare professionals who are currently in their first year. Meet Marietjie Swanepoel. Integrity, practical logic and...
Combined U-Pb and Hf isotopes studies on zircon
A great tool for unravelling protolith origin to polymetamorphism
Babies are ‘bookworms’
The first 1 000 days of a child's life hold the key to health and intellectual development. Development at a physical, intellectual and emotional level occurs the fastest from the commencement of pregnancy until the child's second birthday...
New SU ombud is ready to take on challenges
Integrity, objectivity and fairness. These are the top principles of the newly appointed ombud of Stellenbosch University (SU), whose official commencement of duties is from 1 November. Advocate Rina Meyer's role as ombud will be to attend...
Special exam arrangements to assist students announced
Prof Wim de Villiers, Rector and Vice-Chancellor, today announced ad hoc arrangements with regard to the loss of academic time and the final examinations for 2016. Read his letter to staff and students below: 31 October 2016Dear colleagues...
Meet Priya Pillay: #MyTygerMaties60
As part of its 60th-anniversary celebrations, the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences is introducing 60 future healthcare professionals who are currently in their first year. Meet Priya Pillay.If it hadn’t been for her parents and...
SA’s coloured population worst affected by diabetes
One in four adults in the Western Cape's coloured population may be affected by type 2 diabetes. This is one of the findings of a study into the prevalence of type 2 diabetes among the Bellville South community in the northern suburbs of...
Will sugar tax help tackle obesity and diabetes?
Monday (14 November 2016) is World Diabetes Day. In an opinion piece in The New Age, Prof Faadiel Essop of the Department of Physiological Sciences asks whether the proposed sugar tax will help to reduce South Africans' sugar intake and, in...
Feast of laser physics at SU
More than 50 postgraduate students and research partners in laser physics from Africa and internationally will descend on Stellenbosch University (SU) in November 2016 for the ninth African Laser Centre (ALC) student workshop, as well as...
Science student rediscovers long-lost species
A BSc honours student from Stellenbosch University not only rediscovered a plant species that was last seen in 1928, and presumed to be extinct, but will also focus on the plant for his MSc in order to develop a management plant for its...