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German Gap Year broadens students' knowledge and horizons
Maties Mechanical and Mechatronic (M&M) Engineering third-year students now have an excellent opportunity to broaden their knowledge and horizons with the new "gap year" that was introduced in 2018. This involves studying at a German...
Satellite Engineering students excel on international platform
Satellite Engineering postgraduate students Gabriël Roux and Jürgen Lüdemann excelled at the IAC-2018 by winning top awards during the two sessions of the student paper competition. Almost 7 000 conference delegates attended the 69...
Research leadership and science communication go hand-in-hand, says rector at inaugural media awards
The question is actually not whether you can afford to spend time on public science communication. It's whether you can afford not to! This was the message of Prof Wim de Villiers, Rector and Vice-Chancellor of Stellenbosch University (SU...
Rector’s Awards honour 87 students for excellent achievement
Stellenbosch University (SU) honoured 87 students last night (11 October) who excelled in areas ranging from academics to co-curricular fields at the annual Rector's Awards for Excellent Achievement. Prof Wim de Villiers, SU Rector and Vice...
Register your social impact initiatives
Stellenbosch University staff members who play an active and pivotal social impact role through research, learning and teaching, volunteerism, special programmes and the building and servicing of partnerships in society are asked to...
Faculty of Science boasts with two Havenga-prize winners in 2018
Two scientists from the Faculty of Science were awarded the prestigious Havenga-prize for Life Sciences and Physical Sciences respectively from the Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns. The Havenga prize is an annual award for...
Faculty's top lecturers honoured
The 2018 winners of the top lecturer competition of the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences were honoured at a prestigious event at Towerbosch Restaurant on Friday, 12 October. Mrs Sophia Brink of the School of Accountancy is the...
Barefoot children have better balance, also jump further
A study by researchers from South Africa and Germany found that young children who grow up walking barefoot have better balance and can also jump further than children who wear shoes. “Our research has shown that regular physical activities...
Maties Sport celebrate excellence at awards ceremony
Hockey player Ammaarah Hendricks and rugby player Duncan Saal were named Maties Sport's Sportswoman and Sportsman of the Year for 2018 at the annual Maties Sport Awards on Monday, 15 October. Ammaarah could not attend the event as she was...
Nine student-athletes honoured at Rector's Awards
Nine Maties Sport student-athletes were among the 87 students honoured by Stellenbosch University (SU) at the recent annual Rector's Awards for Excellent Achievement. At this event, SU honoured students who excelled in areas ranging from...