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SU Teaching Excellence Awards 2020
Applications are currently awaited for the Stellenbosch University Teaching Excellence Awards 2020. The awards acknowledge teaching of outstanding merit at Stellenbosch University. All teaching staff – permanent as well as contract...
SU invites students to enter hackathon
Stellenbosch University (SU) invites students to enter its third annual hackathon challenge. This year's SU Hackathon will be run as an online challenge between 31 July and 2 August 2020, due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The event is...
Tomorrow Trust raises the bar in student funding
In an effort to reduce inequality in higher education and to level the playing field at Stellenbosch University (SU), the Tomorrow Trust has donated more than R1 million towards student funding. The trust granted full bursaries to 11...
Young postdoc in chemistry awarded prestigious EU fellowship
Dr Upenyu Muza, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Chemistry and Polymer Science at Stellenbosch University (SU), has received a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Action individual fellowship to conduct research at the Leibniz-Institute for...
Matie students all in to help during COVID-19 pandemic
When South African President Cyril Ramaphosa called on citizens to make a difference during the COVID-19 pandemic, three students from Stellenbosch University (SU) heeded the call. Stefan Stofberg and brothers Daneel and Stephan Steinmann...
SU social impact activities in response to the COVID-19 pandemic
Over the past two months, purposeful partnerships between Stellenbosch University (SU) and several others have brought relief to thousands of people experiencing need due to the national lockdown and the COVID-19 pandemic. This time has...
COVID-19: Digitising ICU improves patient care while protecting healthcare staff
An ambitious digitisation project that will not only improve the care of seriously ill COVID-19 patients, but also reduce the risk of infection to hospital staff, is being launched at Cape Town's Tygerberg Hospital. The digitisation of the...
SA government not serious about protecting refugees
Despite the Refugees Act and its noble intentions, South Africa is politically not willing to offer asylum-seekers and refugees the protection they so desperately need, argues Dr Callixte Kavuro from the Department of Public Law in an...
Remarkable women celebrated during Women's Month: Erika Hoffman
Another remarkable woman who achieved several major milestones is Erika Hoffman. She started working at SU in 2000 at IMSTUS, which in 2013 became part of SUNCEP at the Faculty of Education. She retired at the end of 2022 but is remembered...
More data needed on COVID-19 infections among healthcare workers
There is a need for more data on COVID-19 infections among healthcare workers to track the pandemic's impact on them, writes Prof Angela Dramowksi (Paediatrics and Child Health) and her colleagues in an opinion piece for Health24 (22 June...