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Institutional news
Prof Hafizah Chenia listens in on microbes to improve global health
Engineering and technology
Spreading optics and photonics in Southern Africa
With a freshly printed PhD certificate from Stellenbosch University (SU) in his pocket, Dr Amos Kiyumbi is on a mission to invest all the research experience he...
Media release
Wastewater harbours high-risk antimicrobial resistance genes
In South Africa, wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) and connected river systems could serve as reservoirs of antibiotic resistance, raising fresh concerns...
Media release
SU’s Faculty of Science celebrates record number of PhD graduates
The Faculty of Science conferred a record number of 71 doctoral degrees during 2025, representing a significant increase from the 47 awarded in 2024.
Even more...
Media release
Curiosity with light leads to PhD in physics
As an undergraduate science student, Dr Anneke Erasmus’ curiosity about lasers made her stay behind after physics classes to ask lecturers about their research...
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...