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Open, free access to health evidence: a new precedent for Africa
This article was originally published on The Conversation . Read the full article . When the World Health Organisation develops guidelines on the use of healthcare interventions, it turns to the Cochrane Library. This is a collection of...
Paediatricians share skills with colleagues in Eastern Cape
After only six months as a registrar in paediatrics at Stellenbosch University's (SU) Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (FMHS), Dr Lunga Mfingwana (29), who hails from the Eastern Cape, was so inspired that he started planning an...
'SU institute empowers young people' – Breyten
Friends and colleagues of the late Dr Frederik Van Zyl Slabbert visited the Institute for Student Leadership Development at Stellenbosch University (SU) that had been named after this former SU Chancellor. The visit took place on Monday...
Prof Eugene Cloete wins national award
Prof Eugene Cloete, Vice-Rector for Research, Innovation and Postgraduate Studies at Stellenbosch University (SU), received a National Science and Technology Forum (NSTF)/South32 Award on Thursday (29 June 2017) for his outstanding...
SU appoints three new Deans
Stellenbosch University (SU) has appointed three new Deans. Prof Daniël Brink is the new Dean of the Faculty of AgriSciences, Prof Anthony Leysens will become the new Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, while Prof Reginald...
SU team set sail to Antartica
The excitement was palpable when a research team of Stellenbosch University's Faculty of Science, set sail on a return voyage to Antarctica from the Port of Cape Town on board the SA Agulhas II earlier this week. The SA Agulhas Winter...
PANGeA launches its Early Career Fellowship Programme
The Partnership for Africa's Next Generation of Academics (PANGeA) recently launched its Early Career Fellowship Programme which will offer fellowships to 50 staff members within the PANGeA network over four years. The programme aims to...
Newly discovered mid-Cretaceous vertebrate fossil-localities (Winton Formation)
Investigating the stratigraphy and palaeoenvironments for a suite of newly discovered mid-Cretaceous vertebrate fossil-localities in the Winton Formation, Queensland, Australia Title image from: Graphical Abstract by scientific artist Dr...
Saving the paintbrush lily from extinction
A major effort is underway to conserve the last remaining 60 individual paintbrush lilies ( Haemanthus pumilio) in the Duthie Nature Reserve in Stellenbosch, as well as increase the population through micropropagation. Martin Smit, curator...
Producing physicians for tomorrow and beyond
South Africa's healthcare system is in the midst of multiple changes. It has to expand access in a skewed system that has historically favoured urban over rural and wealthy over poor, while simultaneously transforming from a hospital- and...