It is a new chapter for the Confucius Institute at Stellenbosch University (CISU) with the appointment of Dr Ying Wang as new co-director. Dr Wang will steer the activities for the institute over the next few years, teaching Chinese...

​Pressure on international organizations such as the African Union, the European Union and the United Nations to justify the financial, human and political resources spent on peace operations led to a growing demand to measure impact and...

​The SA Student Sevens Men's team won the FISU World University Rugby Sevens Championships in Swakopmund recently, beating the defending champions, Australia, twice in the process. Three Maties Rugby players – James Murphy, Duncan Saal and...

​​Stellenbosch University (SU) is gearing up to make 10 000 sandwiches at the upcoming Toasties for Tummies event, which will take place in the Neelsie – top floor – on Stellenbosch Campus on 27 July 2018. Michelle Pietersen, Project...

​​ Food insecurity and the need for the most basic items are becoming more prevalent among students in South Africa. Although no national research on the issue has been conducted, individual surveys on university campuses revealed that a...

​​​Too many cooks spoil the broth? No! It is a matter of two heads are better than one. At the Faculty of Engineering (Stellenbosch University) the smart approach to research these days is for different disciplines to work together to...

Staff and students at Stellenbosch University (SU) came together in the Neelsie on the Stellenbosch Campus on Friday (27 July 2018) to make 10 000 sandwiches at the annual Toasties for Tummies event. Organised by the student society Golden...

December 2017 marked the start of the 57th annual South African National Antarctic Expedition (SANAE), with the SA Agulhas II setting sail for Antarctica, loaded with supplies, vehicles, and scientists. Among those on board were the new...

​​​​​​The 27th Annual Conference of the International Association for Management of Technology (IAMOT) took place from 22 – 26 April 2018 in Birmingham, England. The primary focus of the conference was to bring together researchers...

​Six delegates from the Department of Process Engineering recently attended the 30 th European Symposium on Applied Thermodynamics (ESAT), which was held in Prague, Czech Republic, from 10 – 13 June 2018. The conference was aimed at...