Pioneering research requires financial support and grants by donors such as the Wilhelm Frank Trust, which make an enormous contribution to researchers’ ability to explore and develop research opportunities.This was the case in the...

Former Public Protector and now Law Trust Chair in Social Justice at Stellenbosch University's Faculty of Law, Prof Thuli Madonsela, has been awarded another honorary doctorate for her activism in social justice, constitutionalism, human...

The preferential partnership between Stellenbosch University (SU) and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium has been strengthened in the form of a nursing master's internship in the FMHS department of Nursing and Midwifery. The master's...

A student team from the Department of Economics at Stellenbosch University recently participated in the 2019 Econometric Game hosted by the University of Amsterdam. The Maties made it to the top ten finalists, thereby beating 20 opponents...

​LEARNING & TEACHING ENHANCEMENT SEMINAR, 09 MAY 2019 held in Room 3008, Education Building, from 12h45 – 13h45 Professor Faadiel Essop, a professor based within the Department of Physiological Sciences in the Faculty of Science, was the...

In an increasingly globalised and interconnected world, internationalisation has become a top priority for many universities worldwide, and Stellenbosch University (SU) is no exception. Over the past 25 years, SU has built one of the...

​​​A high-level delegation from the South African National Department of Science and Technology (DST) recently paid a visit to Stellenbosch University's (SU) Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (FMHS). The DST delegation – consisting of...

Only a few student golfers in the world will ever have the privilege to play a tournament at St Andrews Links in Scotland, and Maties Golf's Phillip Swanepoel is one of them. Phillip, an Industrial Psychology student in his final year at...

A study, recently published by the top-tier journal, The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), has found strong evidence that country-level gender inequality (essentially women's status in society relative to men) is...

Beyers Naude Centre Colloquium on 13 February 2019 at the Faculty of Theology ​​​Humour, Emancipation and Reconciliation: A Critical Inquiry Professor Ola Sigurdson is professor of systematic theology at the Department of Literature...