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DACES celebrates eco-champion Dharshana Moodliar
The Dean's Advisory Committee on Sustainability (DACES) described the fifth-year medical student Dharshana Moodliar as an eco-champion for her active involvement in community service and sustainability projects at Tygerberg Campus, home of...
SU explores out-the-box learning with digital escape room assessments
A lecturer in education at Stellenbosch University (SU) with an innate curiosity and interest in innovative learning has challenged her student teachers to explore the world of gamification to bring educational material alive in their...
The Faculty of Law is making a difference through its social impact initiatives
Despite being forced to close its doors from 26 March until 21 June in 2020, the Stellenbosch University Law Clinic still managed to provide access to legal services for close to 1 000 individuals. Assistance was provided in various legal...
MSc-student tackles one of the major challenges in quantum computing
At Sovetjheza Senior Secondary School in the rural village of Matshiding, Mpumalanga, Unathi Skosana remembers being fascinated by the physics teacher singing the Periodic Table Song in Ndebele, or conjuring up elephant toothpaste from a...
Cross-sector partnerships are crucial for long-term social impact
In line with the global requirement for higher education institutions (HEIs) to maximise their community engagement through partnerships and utilising the quadruple helix which includes government, industry, business and civil society...
World Heart Day 2021: Use heart to connect!
Every year on September 29 th is World Heart Day. This year, World Heart Day is about connecting with our own hearts and using the power of digital to connect every heart, everywhere. The World Heart Federation is asking the world to USE TO...
Sick of COVID-19 variants? You have the power to stop them from happening
It may only be a matter of time before a COVID-19 variant emerges that will successfully evade our currently available vaccines. This is why we must double down on our efforts to prevent COVID-19 infection in ourselves and in others...
Do sex differences in the highest echelons of leadership matter?
Do sex differences in the highest echelons of leadership matter, especially during a pandemic? This is the question Prof Soraya Seedat from the Department of Psychiatry tried to answer in a recent Women's Month article for News24. Read the...
SU’s involvement in Africa-Europe Clusters of Research Excellence is a research milestone
Stellenbosch University (SU) earlier this month celebrated its co-leadership of four of the 17 joint Africa-Europe Clusters of Research Excellence (CoRE), established through the collaborative efforts of the African Research Universities...
#WomenofSU: Fighting for gender equality through research
The inequalities that mothers face in both the labour market and the household are real, but often overlooked. In an effort to turn this around, Olivia Ezeobi, PhD candidate and lecturer in the Department of Economics, has embarked on a...