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The cancer conundrum
Cancer, from its first documented evidence ~3000 BC to what we would consider the brink of the 5th industrial revolution, remains a formidable adversary that afflicts all communities without discrimination or boundaries. Its burden impinges...
Matia Mukama to represent SU at national FameLab competition
Matia Mukama, a doctoral student in Food Science at Stellenbosch University (SU), won the SU heat of the 2019 FameLab science communication and public speaking competition on Friday (1 February). Carla Snyman, a doctoral student at...
2019 Scholarship of Educational Leadership (SoEL short course)
2019 Scholarship of Educational Leadership (SoEL short course) On 1 February 2019 the first contact session for the new cohort of SoEL participants took place in Den Bosch. Dr Antoinette van der Merwe (Senior Director: Learning and Teaching...
SciMathUS offers a second chance at achieving dreams
“Failure is what you interpret it to be in your life. You can look at failure as a stepping-stone to the success that awaits you." This was the message from Nokwanda Siyengo, SciMathUS (Science and Mathematics at Stellenbosch University)...
You can still #Move4Food in 2019
"Let's keep moving for Maties!" This is the message from Prof Wim de Villiers, Rector and Vice-chancellor of Stellenbosch University (SU), as he once again prepares to take on the Cape Town Cycle Tour (CTCT) to raise money for the student...
CEO’s exit underscores how few SA women hold top jobs
The following article titled CEO's exit underscores how few South African women hold top jobs by Dr Nadia Mans-Kemp, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Business Management at Stellenbosch University, was published in The Conversation on...
Matia Mukana to represent SU at national FameLab competition
Matia Mukama, a doctoral student in Food Science at Stellenbosch University (SU), won the SU heat of the 2019 FameLab science communication and public speaking competition on Friday (1 February). Carla Snyman, a doctoral student at the...
Property tax proposed as a form of wealth tax
The following article by Francois Williams was published on 2 May 2019 in Die Burger (p 13): A national property tax as a form of wealth tax has been recommended in a new academic article published by the Human Sciences Research Council...
Prof Wesaal Khan helps ensure all have access to safe, affordable drinking water
Prof Wesaal Khan from the Department of Microbiology in the Faculty of Science at Stellenbosch University (SU) recently delivered her inaugural lecture, titled “Safe water is a human right: Overcoming the last hurdle towards water security...
‘I can study anything I put my mind to’ says hearing impaired student
When Jody Lee Bell was a young learner at the Carel du Toit Centre for children with hearing impairments, her mother, Dr Diane Bell, went to listen to a talk by an alumnus of the school which is on the grounds of Tygerberg Hospital. “This...