Stories
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and our exceptional people.
Awards and milestones
Brilliant mathematics achiever honoured with SU’s prestigious Chancellor’s Medal
Events
Engineering students take laurels in first ‘Integration Bee’
Room 1005 in the Mathematical Sciences Building was packed Friday 13 March to witness the final “face-off” in an Integration Bee organised by third year Applied...
Media release
New African species confirms evolutionary origin of magic mushrooms
A long-standing debate about the evolutionary origin of the world’s most widely cultivated “magic mushroom” – Psilocybe cubensis – may now have been settled by...
Media release
Eerste River study needs your help – students, hikers, landowners and other stakeholders
Stellenbosch University’s Centre for Invasion Biology is embarking on a comprehensive benchmarking exercise to establish the status of plant invasions along the...
Institutional news
SU leads continent in research output, new QS ranking shows
If the inaugural QS (Quacquarelli Symonds) World University Rankings (WUR): Sub-Saharan Africa is anything to go by, Stellenbosch University (SU) is well on its...
Opinion and features
Women in STEM are solving real-world problems
Women in science are solving real-world problems not only by discovering new materials or refining experiments, but by redefining what counts as a problem and...
Media release
Novel approach to antibiotic discovery earns SU biochemist place in US$60 million global consortium
Prof Erick Strauss from Stellenbosch University’s Department of Biochemistry is leading one of two African project teams selected to participate in a global...