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Centre for Learning Technologies introduces SUNStream
A brand-new video-streaming solution was rolled out at the beginning of the 2017 academic year under the auspices of the Centre for Learning Technologies (CLT). One of the main initial drivers to have the system ready at the start of the...
The NRF ORCID statement
On Friday 7 April the National Research Foundation (NRF) distributed an ORCID statement requiring all researchers and students applying for funding and rating to have an ORCID identifier. The NRF membership of ORCID ensures that researchers...
Maties Parasport athletes shine at national championships
Maties Parasport athletes returned form the recent South African national championships for persons with disabilities with several national records and qualifying times for the 2017 World ParaAthletics Championships. The national event took...
Medals and qualifying times for Maties swimmers
A group of 25 Maties swimmers took part at the South African World Championship trials in Durban as part of Team Western Cape from 3-8 April. Standout swims for the week included those by 3rd year BCom student Emma Chelius, who swam...
Stem cell research gets ‘boost’ from NRF
Stem cell research at Stellenbosch University's (SU) Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (FMHS) recently received a major boost in the form of a R1,93 million grant awarded to Dr Mari van de Vyver from the Division of Endocrinology...
Ethics administrator participates in prestigious NIH programme
Elvira Rohland, Senior Health Research Ethics Administrator at Stellenbosch University’s Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (FMHS), has just returned from the United States where she participated in the prestigious Institutional Review...
Popular M-programme attracts hundreds of students from Africa
On March 14, Victoria Ndarukwa, a medical laboratory scientist from Zimbabwe, became the 100 th Matie to receive a Master of Science degree in Clinical Epidemiology from Stellenbosch University (SU) in less than a decade. The so-called M...
More scientists needed to classify microorganisms
The world needs more scientists who can classify the vast number of microorganisms, such as fungi, into classes, families and species according to their characteristics. This was one of the viewpoints of Prof Karin Jacobs of the Department...
Research Project: Western Cape Department of Transport & Public Works
A research team of 10 BcomHons in Public and Development students took part in a three-month internship with the School of Public Leadership from 29 January 2017. The aim of the internship was to evaluate three different programmes from the...
Moral leadership needed to make freedom a reality
On Thursday 27 April we celebrate Freedom Day. In an opinion piece published on The Conversation website on Tuesday (25 April 2017), Dr Chris Jones of the Department of Practical Theology and Missiology writes that we need strong moral...