Every year in April, World Intellectual Property (IP) Day is celebrated around the globe. The annual World IP Day highlights the role that IP rights play in encouraging innovation and creativity and in ensuring that society benefits from...

Students at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (FMHS) showed off their talent at the recent Molassesêr competition – and proved that they weren't just bookworms. Residences at Stellenbosch University compete annually for the...

​ South African Chenin blanc wines take centre stage in a novel study that explores the sensory space of wine using data mining and machine learning techniques. In this study, the first of its kind, researchers employed techniques that are...

Agricultural research represents “the most complex integration of science disciplines in research and development endeavours”, according to Prof Leopoldt van Huyssteen, emeritus professor in the Department of Soil Sciences at Stellenbosch...

​Scientists working in the Faculty of AgriSciences are helping to pave the way for genetic research and its future applications, both locally and globally. This is the view of Willem Botes who recently delivered a memorial lecture titled...

Commemorations bring with them recollections. The centenary dinner of the Faculty of Agrisciences at Spier took our memories back to afternoon practicals at Welgevallen or far out of town with a small pick at a soil profile, or to an...

Professor Soon Nel, Professor of Management Accounting and Finance, and Deputy Director: Research of the School of Accountancy, presented his inaugural lecture on 10 May. He was introduced by Prof Ingrid Woolard, Dean of the Faculty of...

To celebrate the Centenary of Stellenbosch University, we have achieved yet another first by entering a charity team in the Cape Town Cycle Race, which took place on 11 March. Our Rector and Vice-Chancellor, Professor Wim de Villiers, led...

​Stellenbosch University(SU) is doing its part to abide by the severe water restrictions and has successfully reduced its water consumption by 45% . The University has achieved this significant saving by implementing a wide range of...

At only five grams a newly-discovered dwarf bat from Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique has now become Africa's smallest horseshoe bat. According to an article published in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society recently...