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Hard work and dedication rewarded at Maties Sport Awards
Cyclist Frankie du Toit, a first-year BA Sport Science student, and hockey player Keenan Horne, a postgraduate student in the Faculty of Law, were named Maties Sport's Sportswoman and Sportsman of the Year for 2017 at the annual Maties...
Postdocs behind the podium
The audience sat up straight when sport scientist Dr Zarko Krkeljas began his talk on lower back pain at the annual Postdoc Research Day at Stellenbosch University. They watched closely as Dr Emma McKinney relayed ways with which to spot a...
SU reports on progress towards gender equality
Stellenbosch University (SU) made a presentation to the Commission for Gender Equality (CGE) in Johannesburg on Wednesday (1 Nov 2017) regarding progress at the institution towards gender equality. This stems from a request by the CGE, in...
Competition creates opportunities for students to develop practical skills
Stellenbosch students who participated in a data science competition hosted by Capitec in conjunction with the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science not only had to create models to solve a problem, but also had to present and...
No quick-fix solution to obesity-related diseases
A sugar tax in South Africa should be implemented in parallel with well-designed, long-term research studies that takes the South African context into account. So says Prof Faadiel Essop, head of the Cardio-Metabolic Research Group of the...
Future Maties explore the FMHS
A group of 47 matric learners from across South Africa recently visited Stellenbosch University's (SU) Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (FMHS) as part of the annual Visit@Tygerberg. “During the past 12 years, the Visit@Tygerberg...
Film screening reveals struggles of albinism and education
Social prejudice, family and education were just a few of the topics discussed at Stellenbosch University Museum's screening of As We See It, a documentary about living with albinism in South Africa. The film addresses challenges that...
Financial year-end: Important dates
SPERDATUMS 2017 ENG.pdf
Preserve your special bond with a certain Afrikaans word
A few people choose to preserve their special bond with certain Afrikaans words by buying or sponsoring the word. Koos Bekker, media entrepreneur and former chief executive of Naspers, is such a buyer of words. Bekker bought the word ' skon...
Rollover process of modules on SUNLearn for 2018
Dear colleague, It is that time of the year again when we need to start preparing for the rollover of all registered courses/modules on the SUNLearn system for 2018. Therefore we once again need your feedback with regards to what should...