Single mothers living in high-risk communities afflicted by poverty and crime can benefit from parenting programmes that focus on their personal wellness. This is one of the findings of a recent doctoral study at Stellenbosch University (SU...

The public has until the end of February to visit a unique exhibition at the interface of science, art and the stigma around illness at the Rupert Museum in Stellenbosch. The exhibit, ' Science meets Art: Art addressing stigma in illness'...

The French government has bestowed a ceremonial knighthood, the Chevalier dans l'Ordre du Mérite Agricole (Knight in the Order of Agricultural Merit), upon wine microbiologist Prof Benoit Divol. He is an associate professor in the...

​​It is with deep sadness that the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences learnt of the passing of Prof Bongani Khumalo (68) after contracting Covid-19. Prof Khumalo was a founding member of the Africa Centre for HIV/AIDS Management...

​​​​TAU Fellowship Programme 2021-2022 The TAU (Teaching Advancement at University) Fellowship Programme is a nation-wide intervention that was initiated in 2015. It aims at advancing teaching quality and the professionalisation of teaching...

​One of the Cape Floral Kingdom's most threatened plant genera, Polhilia, has now been comprehensively revised and populations of these endangered species documented, thereby aiding efforts to ensure its conservation. This is thanks to the...

​​​How much of a problem is inequality in education, exacerbated in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR), still in South African society? This question came under the spotlight at the most recent...

A new project that aims to make information about COVID-19 available to the South African Deaf community has recently been launched by the Department of General Linguistics in Stellenbosch University's Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences...

​Quintin, the remote-controlled tele-presence robot that helps to put patients in Tygerberg Hospital's Covid-19 ICU in virtual contact with their families, is set to feature in an innovative student project aimed at tackling urgent global...

Wednesday (24 March) is World Tuberculosis Day. In an opinion piece for Health24, Prof André G Loxton (Molecular Biology and Human Genetics / South African Medical Research Council) highlights the need for continued funding and...