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Innovative products from textile science students
Imagine having affordable, washable and reusable diapers on the market instead of the 20 billion disposable diapers landing up in landfills every year. Or stuffing your wet boots with a microfibre "sock" that will dry it overnight. These...
A welcome break for children with cancer
Children undergoing treatment for cancer in the Oncology ward at Tygerberg Children's Hospital have been given a boost with the donation of a PlayStation entertainment system. This will bring some fun and relief to the children, who often...
Young economists of SU won competition
The winners of the Young Economist of the Year competition is a talented team of Stellenbosch University (SU). Ashley Williamson and Kay-Dee Adams, who entered the competition as Economisticated, came out on top in this popular competition...
Prof. Patterton to lead bioinformatics initiative at SU
Prof. Hugh Patterton has been appointed to lead and coordinate the bioinformatics initiative at Stellenbosch University's main campus (SU). Bioinformatics is an interdisciplinary field that develops methods and software tools for analysing...
Protest action on Stellenbosch Campus
Groups of protesters convened on the Stellenbosch Campus (about 70 in total) today. Information available to the University is that most members of the group were not from Stellenbosch University (SU), but from other universities in the...
SU crocodile researcher receives international award
Dr Alison Leslie of the Department of Conservation Ecology and Entomology has won the prestigious IUCN-Crocodile Specialist Group (CSG) Costello Award for Crocodile Conservation. It recognises her contribution to crocodile research in...
Achievements of food scientists, horticulturalists and meat scientists acknowledged
The excellence of staff and students of the Faculty of AgriSciences have been acknowledged in many ways over the past few months – from food science to horticulture and meat science. Prof Pieter Gouws of the Department of Food Science was...
Rector's award for Calvin Ullrich
Calvin Ullrich was recently named as the top master's student in the Faculty of Theology. Stellenbosch University (SU) honoured those students who excelled in areas ranging from academics to leadership at the annual Rector's Awards for...
Scientists go to the heart of the community
An outreach project, where researchers were meant to teach the community about health and science, turned out to be a valuable lesson for scientists who learned about the lives and challenges of the communities they aim to serve through...
IPB represented at the Frontiers Editor’s Summit
Dr James Lloyd from the Institute for Plant Biotechnology (IPB) attended the 2016 Frontiers 2 nd Editors' Summit in Champéry, Switzerland. He helps run the Plant Biotechnology section of Frontiers in Plant Science, the largest open access...