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Varsity athletes impress in Stellenbosch
Thursday's Varsity Athletics final in Stellenbosch served as the perfect curtain-raiser for the SA Senior Track and Field Championships as athletes gave the crowd a taste of what they can expect next week. The country's top athletes will be...
New unit to strengthen MMed research
A new unit to support Masters of Medicine (MMed) students with research projects was recently established at Stellenbosch University’s Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (FMHS). The new MMed Unit of the Research Development and Support...
Why do we lose our appetite when we are ill?
Are we suppressing one of Mother Nature's oldest and most effective bug-fighting mechanisms by force-feeding patients when they have lost their appetite during an infection? A Phd student in physiological sciences from Stellenbosch...
Parasport athletes receive national recognition
Two Maties Parasport stalwarts, Ilse Hayes and Dyan Buis, were named South Africa's sportswoman and sportsman of the year with a disability at the SA Sports Awards evening on Sunday. Ilse, who concluded a career of 16 years with a silver...
New EMS Dean ready for challenges
Broadening student access and success, enhancing research excellence, accelerating transformation of the staff body and ensuring relevance of the curriculum. These are the four core elements Prof Ingrid Woolard, newly appointed dean of the...
MB,ChB curriculum undergoing major overhaul
The medical programme (MB,ChB) of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (FMHS) is currently being renewed with the aim of making the curriculum more pragmatic for students, and more responsive to the health needs of the population. It...
Helping Paralympians stay free from injury, illness
Athletes participating at the Paralympics can suffer from illness and injury during competition and therefore prevention strategies are needed to help them perform at their best. This was one of the viewpoints of Prof Wayne Derman from the...
Prof Hester Klopper elected to council of international body
Prof Hester Klopper, Deputy Vice-Chancellor: Strategy and Internationalisation at Stellenbosch University (SU), has recently been elected to serve on the Council of the Consortium Universities for Global Health (CUGH) based in Washington...
Farewell, Prof Leopoldt van Huyssteen!
Prof Leopoldt van Huyssteen, Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Stellenbosch University (SU), is looking forward to his retirement at the end of November, especially to the freedom that he will have to tackle his long list of projects. Even...
Several factors impede land reform efforts
The success of the land reform effort is constrained by, among others, poor agricultural support systems, bureaucracy, and a lack of smart incentives, said Prof Johann Kirsten, Director of the Bureau for Economic Research at Stellenbosch...