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‘FBOs can play practical role in empowering and transforming the poor’ – PhD study
Faith-based organisations (FBOs) can help to empower those who are economically deprived by equipping them with job skills and by restoring their human dignity.This is according to Dr Susan Mellows who obtained her PhD in Practical Theology...
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PhD graduate contributes to the development of smallholder farmers
Dr Obvious Mapiye is convinced that his childhood experience with animal and crop farming on a smallholding laid the foundation for his current achievements, which includes completing his doctoral studies and conceptualising the creation...
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Double PhD celebration for siblings
It was a double celebration for siblings Clarice and Manisha du Plessis, who both graduated with PhDs during Stellenbosch University's (SU) April graduation series. Clarice (27), was awarded a PhD in Mechanical Engineering and Manisha (25)...
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Up-and-coming guitarist graduates after many late nights
Juggling a successful music career and studying toward a master's degree in Engineering is not for the faint-hearted.But this week, Roelof van der Merwe, a member of the award-winning folk-acoustic band, Van Der Aven, proved that it...
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Infant nutrition boosted by innovative training programme
This week researchers launched an innovative new training programme at Stellenbosch University's (SU) Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (FMHS) that aims to change the health status of young children in South Africa. Development at a...
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SU polymer scientists develop novel method to break down lignin
Polymer scientists at Stellenbosch University have developed a novel method to break down lignin – a by-product in the paper manufacturing process – into valuable chemicals that can be used as raw materials in the chemical and polymer...
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PhD maps genome of critical endangered African wild dog
When Christina Meiring graduates with a PhD in Molecular Biology today (5 April) it will mark the completion of the first large-scale investigation of the genetic diversity in the African wild dog population of the Kruger National Park...
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SU Campus Security hosting seminar
In August this year, Stellenbosch University Campus Security hosted a Western Cape Campus Protection Society Southern Africa (CAMPROSA) seminar, at Hazendal Estate with delegates attending from the Universities of Cape Town, the Western...
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Brain tumours couldn’t hold this PhD graduate back
Every now and then you meet someone with a truly inspirational life story. One such person is Dr Amy Martin from Durbanville. Her world was turned upside down in her teens when she was diagnosed with life-threatening brain tumours at the...
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Art graduate's illustrations address past injustices
Karla Koopstad used an experience which is a tender subject for her family (and many others) as inspiration for her MA in Art Education project – a set of wordless booklets portraying the forced evacuations in Ceres under the apartheid...