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Prof Anita Cloete is on a mission to empower youth
Faith-based communities need to engage with young people outside of formal religious institutions, showing interest in their everyday lives and challenges, and should make use of technologies like film and media to help start a dialogue and...
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New SRC Chair ready for pressing issues
The Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences (EMS) produced its second successive Student Representative Council (SRC) Chairperson when Xola Njengele took up the position on 21 September 2020. Njengele, who is currently completing a...
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Department of Political Science ranks amongst top in SA
The Political Science Department at Stellenbosch University was recently ranked amongst the top in South Africa by the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) based on the quality of the academic work offered in the department in the...
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Research dives deep to understand climate impacts on whales
Three South African universities are involved in a world-first research project that aims to understand how changes in the ocean influence the recovery of humpback whale populations in the Southern Hemisphere. During the previous century...
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Bridging the gap between academia and job opportunities with Stellenbosch University's New Techpreneurship Cen
In February 2021 the Stellenbosch University LaunchLab in partnership with SU School for Data Science and Computational Thinking will be launching its newly established SU Techpreneurship Centre. The goal is to provide final year students...
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What we should also be celebrating on Heritage Day
September is Heritage Month with festivities reaching a crescendo on Heritage Day (24 September). In an opinion piece for Daily Maverick, Prof Nico Koopman (Deputy Vice-Chancellor: Social Impact, Transformation and Personnel) writes that...
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Innovation helps TygerMaties navigate Covid-19 restrictions on training platform
An innovative new clinical training plan has enabled fifth-year medical students at Stellenbosch University's Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (FMHS) to navigate the restrictions placed on the training platform due to the Covid-19...
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Communication from Council (meeting of 21 September 2020)
On Monday 21 September, the Stellenbosch University (SU) Council had its third meeting of 2020. Although the meeting took place on the first day of level 1 of the COVID-19 lockdown, which permits face-to-face gatherings, we decided to...
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We’ve stopped caring because of compassion fatigue
Compassion fatigue during abnormal times such as the COVID-19 pandemic can cause people to care less for others, writes Prof Dion Forster from the Department of Systematic Theology and Ecclesiology in an opinion piece for Mail & Guardian...
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Sustainable wood-based housing market possible in SA
Researchers at Stellenbosch University (SU) found that South Africa has sufficient log resource options for a sustainable wood residential building market. “Our study showed that with the use of wood resources currently exported as chips...