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SU Museum bags tourism award
The Stellenbosch University (SU) Museum, for the first time, won the Cape Winelands District Municipality's Mayoral Tourism Award recently. This is another feature in the cap of the Museum after it received an award from the Western Cape...
SU to host first postdoctoral conference in Southern Africa
The first postdoctoral conference in Southern Africa will take place at Stellenbosch University (SU) from Wednesday 3 October to Friday 5 October 2018. The event, which is organised by SU's Postdoctoral Society, will be held at the...
Fall hopelessly in love with plants and nature, says SU Botanical Garden’s new curator
Dr Donovan Kirkwood has been appointed as the new curator at the internationally accredited* Stellenbosch University (SU) Botanical Garden. He takes up the position on 1 October 2018. “I'm very excited about the position. I've worked in the...
SU launches first online agricultural career portal in SA
A career portal focusing only on the agricultural and food sector in South Africa will be launched by Stellenbosch University's Faculty of AgriSciences on Thursday the 4 th of October. This portal is also the first of its kind developed...
Med student attends global leadership summit
When fifth-year medical student, Mbalenhle Mngomezulu took a chance and sent in an online application to attend a global leadership summit, little did she know that she would be selected – and that she'd return with knowledge and contacts...
Heat your water at the right time to save electricity
With electricity prices set to increase significantly in the next three years, South Africans will have to be resourceful to keep the costs down. One of the ways to achieve this, would be to use less electricity to heat your water for...
Celebrating multilingualism at SU
“We are who we are through language." This was one of the key sentiments expressed during the Stellenbosch University (SU) Language Day 2018, held at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS) on Friday, 28 September. Seventy...
Equality Unit strengthens its mediation program
The Equality Unit (EqU) recently welcomed a group of 16 Stellenbosch University (SU) staff members as mediators, following their successful completion of the SU Workplace Mediation Course. The course was presented over a period of five...
Prof Deborah Blaine elected as SAIMechE President
Prof Deborah Blaine was recently elected as President of the South African Institution of Mechanical Engineering (SAIMechE) for the period 2018 to 2020. Prof Blaine is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Mechatronic...
Do you have a free will, or not?
Do you have a free will, or not? Is this something you have ever thought about? If your answer is YES, then you are in the company of biomedical engineering researchers at Stellenbosch University who like to 'grapple' with this question...