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SU confirms first positive COVID-19 case
Dear Colleague Stellenbosch University has its first confirmation of a staff member who has tested positive for the COVID-19 virus. A member of staff at the Tygerberg Campus who had recently travelled abroad is in self-isolation and is...
Institutional Committee for Business Continuity in COVID-19 pandemic
19 March 2020 The role of the Institutional Committee for Business Continuity in COVID-19 pandemic Given our complex organisational structure Stellenbosch University manages unexpected and disruptive events by constituting an appropriate...
So many generational curses broken
As part of the celebration of the SciMathUS Program's 20-year anniversary, we are launching a series sharing the stories of a handful of students for whom this program has been a stepping stone in their individual success stories. Here...
Position statement and REC guidelines on Research in the time of COVID-19
Dear Colleagues and StudentsWe anticipate widespread and rapid community spread of COVID-19 in South Africa. In line with recommendations to practice social distancing, we want to minimise the risk of transmission in research offices and...
Human Rights Day: Covid-19 and the critical importance of achieving socio-economic rights
Human Rights Day 2020. “The coronavirus pandemic has illuminated the critical role of socio-economic rights in securing a dignified life for all and in countering social and economic inequalities. There is a silver lining to this dark...
SU’s FLAIR Fellows partner with UK experts
Stellenbosch University (SU) biotechnologist Dr Debra Rossouw and process engineer Dr Margreth Tadie were both last year announced as among the first fellows to receive FLAIR Fellowships (Future Leaders – African Independent Research). The...
Don’t take good-quality drinking water for granted
Sunday (22 March) was World Water Day. In an opinion piece for News24, Gideon Wolfaardt and Marlene de Witt of the Stellenbosch University Water Institute call on all South Africans not to take good-quality drinking water for granted. Read...
Brushing shoulders with Nobel Laureates
Dr Nabila Ismail is a research scientist in the Division of Molecular Biology and Human Genetics at Stellenbosch University's Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences. She was selected to attend the 72 nd Lindau Nobel Laureate meeting in...
Virus and values
Prof Arnold Smit, Associate Professor of Business in Society, unpacks five moral values that we all have in common. These values, he says, are the essence of what makes us human, and should be upheld at all costs during these difficult...
Standing together crucial in a time of social distancing
Social distancing has been strongly recommended as one of the ways to curb the spread of the Coronavirus. In an article for Daily Maverick (19 March), Prof Ronelle Burger from the Department of Economics writes that we also need to...