​Committed to succeed with the academic project and to remain sustainable as a leading higher education institution, Stellenbosch University (SU) will be welcoming first-year students to its campuses this week in a slightly different way...

Take a moment and think about the feeling you get when smelling your first cup of coffee in the morning or the child-like excitement associated with hearing the ice-cream truck's bell ring! Our brains are the epicentre that process all our...

The stark inequalities within the South African population were brought to the fore in a new study by Stellenbosch University (SU) researchers that shows that poorer communities were much harder hit by the first wave of the Covid-19...

​Learning and Teaching Enhancement Virtual Seminar: 25 March 2021 You are invited to the first seminar of the 2021 Virtual Learning and Teaching Enhancement Seminars under the auspices of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (L&T), Prof Deresh...

“This appointment as manager of the Ubuntu Dialogues project is an opportunity to think creatively about ways in which institutional spaces like museums and universities could be used to facilitate and mediate conversations about the...

Dear Colleague, The SPL cordially invite you to commemorate International Women's Day Monday 8 March 2021, with the Honourable Minister of Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation Dr Lindiwe N Sisulu on the theme " Women in leadership...

​​Wednesday (3 March) is World Wildlife Day. In an opinion piece for News24 Dr Alanna Rebelo and Mr Nicholas Coertze (Conservation Ecology and Entomology) make the point that we need to map alien trees to protect our forests. ​Read the...

​One of South Africa's least known but most endangered dolphin species, the humpback dolphin, is the focus of a short documentary film that was released online by Homebrew Films on World Wildlife Day (3 March 2021). The film “ The Sound of...

​Dr Chris Trauernicht, Head of the Division of Medical Physics at Stellenbosch University (SU), has scooped up the prestigious International Day of Medical Physics (IDMP) award for 2020 for his substantial contributions to medical physics...

Dr Geraldine Frieslaar was recently appointed as the first ever Curator of Research, Dialogue and Social Justice at the Stellenbosch University (SU) Museum. Her role will be at the intersection of academic and public scholarship where a key...