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Stem cell research gets ‘boost’ from NRF
Stem cell research at Stellenbosch University's (SU) Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (FMHS) recently received a major boost in the form of a R1,93 million grant awarded to Dr Mari van de Vyver from the Division of Endocrinology...
Ethics administrator participates in prestigious NIH programme
Elvira Rohland, Senior Health Research Ethics Administrator at Stellenbosch University’s Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (FMHS), has just returned from the United States where she participated in the prestigious Institutional Review...
Popular M-programme attracts hundreds of students from Africa
On March 14, Victoria Ndarukwa, a medical laboratory scientist from Zimbabwe, became the 100 th Matie to receive a Master of Science degree in Clinical Epidemiology from Stellenbosch University (SU) in less than a decade. The so-called M...
More scientists needed to classify microorganisms
The world needs more scientists who can classify the vast number of microorganisms, such as fungi, into classes, families and species according to their characteristics. This was one of the viewpoints of Prof Karin Jacobs of the Department...
Research Project: Western Cape Department of Transport & Public Works
A research team of 10 BcomHons in Public and Development students took part in a three-month internship with the School of Public Leadership from 29 January 2017. The aim of the internship was to evaluate three different programmes from the...
Moral leadership needed to make freedom a reality
On Thursday 27 April we celebrate Freedom Day. In an opinion piece published on The Conversation website on Tuesday (25 April 2017), Dr Chris Jones of the Department of Practical Theology and Missiology writes that we need strong moral...
Emergency numbers - Tygerberg campus
List of the Tygerberg campus emergency numbers
What happens when you're unfairly dismissed?
So you've been fired and you think the grounds on which you've been dismissed are grossly unfair. What do you do? Getting fired is something you never want to experience. Getting fired when you didn't deserve it is even worse. Thankfully...
Stellenbosch University receives R4 million to start Centre for Africa Entrepreneurship
The spotlight will fall on entrepreneurial innovation and growth on the African continent at a new centre for entrepreneurship to be established at Stellenbosch University (SU). The Centre will be known as the Allan Gray Centre for...
Quantum dots used to track flowers’ pollen
A pollination biologist from Stellenbosch University is using quantum dots to track the fate of individual pollen grains. This is breaking new ground in a field of research that has been hampered by the lack of a universal method to track...