A dedicated specialised support unit for organ donors – dubbed the “Life Pod" – will officially launch at Tygerberg Hospital on Wednesday, 4 June 2025. The groundbreaking facility, the first of its kind in Africa, is the flagship...

YOUTH MONTH This Youth Month, we're celebrating students who are driving positive change on campus, in their communities and beyond. Through their leadership, compassion and commitment, they are helping to build a better future for South...

​​Plastic pollution, rethinking bioplastics waste, environmental governance, and ethical frameworks to manage water resources. These are the key environmental issues that experts at Stellenbosch University explored in opinion pieces for the...

YOUTH MONTH This Youth Month, we're celebrating students who are driving positive change on campus, in their communities and beyond. Through their leadership, compassion and commitment, they are helping to build a better future for South...

Stellenbosch University (SU) will be the first university in South Africa to house a hyperspectral core imaging system thanks to a generous donation from Anglo Gold Ashanti. The hyperspectral core scanner was set up and operationalised...

​​Prof Robbie Pott from the Department of Chemical Engineering in the Faculty of Engineering at Stellenbosch University delivered his inaugural lecture on Thursday 5 June 2025. The title of his lecture was 'From laboratory to lecture hall...

​South African healthcare workers are witnessing a powerful shift in the conversation around mental health in their various fields. As the stigma surrounding mental illness starts to break down, initiatives like CrazySocks4Docs is leading...

​The 13th annual Library Research Week at Stellenbosch University (SU) opened with a call to reimagine the purpose of academic inquiry in a world in need of healing, ethical scholarship and critical reflection. Under the theme 'Let's...

YOUTH MONTH This Youth Month, we're celebrating students who are driving positive change on campus, in their communities and beyond. Through their leadership, compassion and commitment, they are helping to build a better future for South...

For PhD student Joey Hulbert there's more to life than just finishing his doctorate about tiny microbes that could kill fynbos plants. He says he'd be a happy man if in the process he can get members of the public – children included –...