​One in four adults in the Western Cape's coloured population may be affected by type 2 diabetes. This is one of the findings of a study into the prevalence of type 2 diabetes among the Bellville South community in the northern suburbs of...

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Monday (14 November 2016) is World Diabetes Day. In an opinion piece in The New Age, Prof Faadiel Essop of the Department of Physiological Sciences asks whether the proposed sugar tax will help to reduce South Africans' sugar intake and, in...

More than 50 postgraduate students and research partners in laser physics from Africa and internationally will descend on Stellenbosch University (SU) in November 2016 for the ninth African Laser Centre (ALC) student workshop, as well as...

Merit Bursary

A BSc honours student from Stellenbosch University not only rediscovered a plant species that was last seen in 1928, and presumed to be extinct, but will also focus on the plant for his MSc in order to develop a management plant for its...

"Every year the Faculty of AgriSciences financially supports students who show academic potential but who would, without support, be unable to further their studies. We are therefore extremely grateful for the way in which our industry...

World Prematurity Day, commemorated on 17 November, celebrates the lives of premature babies and aims to raise awareness of the condition. "Every year an estimated 15 million babies are born too early – that equates to more than one in...

The Registrar's Division of Stellenbosch University (SU) and the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (FMHS) are delighted to announce the appointment of Ms Farah Fredericks to the position of Deputy Registrar (Tygerberg Campus) as of 1...

Prof Ian Couper, director of the Ukwanda Centre for Rural Health, recently completed the Teaching Advancement at Universities (TAU) Fellowship that aims to create excellence in teaching and learning in higher education. The TAU Fellowship...