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Up-and-coming guitarist graduates after many late nights
Juggling a successful music career and studying toward a master's degree in Engineering is not for the faint-hearted.But this week, Roelof van der Merwe, a member of the award-winning folk-acoustic band, Van Der Aven, proved that it...
Infant nutrition boosted by innovative training programme
This week researchers launched an innovative new training programme at Stellenbosch University's (SU) Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (FMHS) that aims to change the health status of young children in South Africa. Development at a...
SU polymer scientists develop novel method to break down lignin
Polymer scientists at Stellenbosch University have developed a novel method to break down lignin – a by-product in the paper manufacturing process – into valuable chemicals that can be used as raw materials in the chemical and polymer...
PhD maps genome of critical endangered African wild dog
When Christina Meiring graduates with a PhD in Molecular Biology today (5 April) it will mark the completion of the first large-scale investigation of the genetic diversity in the African wild dog population of the Kruger National Park...
Brain tumours couldn’t hold this PhD graduate back
Every now and then you meet someone with a truly inspirational life story. One such person is Dr Amy Martin from Durbanville. Her world was turned upside down in her teens when she was diagnosed with life-threatening brain tumours at the...
Art graduate's illustrations address past injustices
Karla Koopstad used an experience which is a tender subject for her family (and many others) as inspiration for her MA in Art Education project – a set of wordless booklets portraying the forced evacuations in Ceres under the apartheid...
SU honours Novartis president; global leader in oil & gas energy sector
Stellenbosch University (SU) bestowed honorary doctorates on the president of the Novartis Foundation in the United States, Dr Patrice Matchaba, and Andries Calitz, a global leader in the oil and gas energy sector, at its April...
Lunch event for retired lecturers
On 15 March 2022 we hosted a lunch event for retired lecturers from the Department of Forest and Wood Science. Apart from the local emeriti, a few “foreigners" such as Proff. Klaus von Gadow and Gerrit van Wyk also attended the event...
Record number of PhD-graduates in chemistry and polymer science
PhD-graduates in Chemistry and Polymer Science dominated the stage during the Faculty of Science's April 2022 graduation ceremony this week. For the 2021 academic year, the Faculty of Science awarded a grand total of 820 degrees – of which...
Master's research puts spotlight on orphan crop
Stellenbosch University MSc graduate Carla de Beer is on a mission to change perspectives about pigeon peas, one of the world's many so-called “orphan crops". She is doing it, quite literally, one falafel at a time, and has even written an...