Sport-based programmes should also focus on participants' individual and environmental circumstances to help solve problems of community safety, violence and risky behaviour, write Dr Christina Laurenzi and Prof Mark Tomlinson (Institute...

Prof Sarah Skeen from Stellenbosch University's Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences recently received a research grant to the value of £638 050 (R12,5 million) from the United Kingdom's Medical Research Council. Skeen, the Co-Director...

​​There are a number of things Wole Soyinka dislikes – one of which is social media. And he's also not keen on people trespassing on his secluded forest property in Nigeria where at the ripe age of 89, he's still a prolific writer and...

​Stellenbosch University (SU)'s first online Open Day attracted more than 23 238 prospective students, parents, guardians and other interested individuals who participated in the live online event on Saturday (17 April 2021). This number of...

​​​​​This year, the biennial Thys Visser Commemorative Lecture hosted by the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, will be given by Prof Emmanuel Akyeampong of the Center for African Studies at Harvard University in the USA. The...

​​Stellenbosch University's Prof Guy Midgley is one of four South African scientists listed on the Reuters Hot List of the top 1000 most influential climate change scientists in the world. Prof Midgley is number 180 on the list, together...

Following the recent destructive fire on Table Mountain, Dr Alanna Rebelo , postdoctoral researcher at Stellenbosch University (SU), and Prof Karen Joan Esler , head of SU's Department of Conservation Ecology and Entomology, published an...

​​​After Prof Julia Blitz graduated as a medical doctor at Wits University in 1982, she decided to become a family physician. But, along the way, her career gradually started going in a new direction in the latter part of her professional...

22 April 2021 Dear colleagues and students The Institutional Committee for Business Continuity (ICBC) of Stellenbosch University (SU) met on Wednesday 21 April 2021. We received updates from the medical advisory committee and the seven...

In what promises to be a groundbreaking initiative in the battle against climate change, Stellenbosch University (SU) has announced the establishment of a new School for Climate Studies, which will be officially launched in June 2021. The...