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On-campus Open Day: Saturday 18 April 2026
On-campus Open Day: Saturday 18 April 2026
Department of Botany and Zoology
New review on the legacy of the “botanist from Belvidere”
The living legacy of Dr Augusta Vera Duthie (1881–1963), founder of the Department of Botany at Victoria College in 1902 (renamed Stellenbosch University in 1918), has been captured in a review article published in a special edition of the...
Department of Botany and Zoology
New velvet worm species a first for the Little Karoo
In March 2022, Stellenbosch University (SU) student Rohan Barnard was out and about on a farm in the Swartberg Mountains between Calitzdorp and Oudtshoorn, flipping over rocks looking for ants, reptiles and other critters, when he stumbled...
Department of Botany and Zoology
New dataset will support global scale analysis of climate trends in river flow
With one of the largest streamflow networks globally, administered by South Africa's Department of Water Affairs (DWA) and the South African Environmental Observation Network (SAEON), South Africa is one of 30 countries worldwide to have...
Chemistry and Polymer Science
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Microbiology
Microorganisms play important role in ecosystems, human health – Prof Thulani Makhalanyane
Prof Thulani Makhalanyane from the Department of Microbiology and the School for Data Sciences and Computational Thinking at Stellenbosch University delivered his inaugural lecture on Tuesday 8 October. The title of his lecture was...
Microbiology
Plankton Manifesto unveils importance of “invisible organisms”
Ongoing disruptions to plankton ecosystems due to human activities in our oceans will inevitably have major impacts on marine life as we presently know it, likely leading to unforeseen and potentially dramatic consequences. But while the...