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Students: Progress after week 2 of online learning and teaching
30 April 2020 Dear StudentOn the eve of the first national risk adjustment since lockdown (from level 5 to level 4) we would like to update our Stellenbosch University (SU) community after our second week of online teaching and learning...
Staff: Information update after week 2 of online learning and teaching
30 April 2020Dear ColleagueWe send this communiqué in the awareness that the uncertainty, unpredictability and concerns of the COVID-19 pandemic in our personal and professional life are impacting on all of us in more ways than we are...
CST researchers invited to join the Club of Rome
Professor Mark Swilling, Co-Director of the Centre for Complex Systems in Transition (CST) and Dr Rika Preiser, Senior Researcher in Complexity Theory, in the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, will continue their engagement...
Maties reflect: 'Momming’ during lockdown
The Stellenbosch University Transformation Office recently put out a call to members of the university community to write about their experiences during #LockdownSA. Claire Kelly is the Acting Head and Faculty Programme Manager of the...
SU pays tribute to beloved microbiologist, Doug Rawlings
Stellenbosch University's (SU) Professor Douglas (Doug) E Rawlings (68), one of South Africa's foremost microbiologists, passed away over the weekend (2 May 2020) after suffering a heart attack. Rawlings, one of the first molecular...
Smart electronic water meters helps SU save water
Stellenbosch University (SU) is embracing the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) and contributing to the environment through the installation of smart electronic water meters in academic and non-academic buildings. The implementation of...
SU collaborates with partners to provide relief in time of need
Over the past weeks, purposeful partnerships between Stellenbosch University (SU) and several others have brought relief to thousands of people who are experiencing need due to the national lockdown and the COVID-19 pandemic. During this...
E-learning is here to stay
The following op-ed was published in Die Burger and Beeld on 29 April 2020. Click here for the online version (subscribers only), or read the translation below (time references adjusted). * * * The dawn of a new era Online teaching and...
COVID-19: The pervasive mental health impacts in vulnerable groups
The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) outbreak continues to ravage populations around the world. Global sex-disaggregated data indicate that more men than women are dying from COVID-19, contributed to in part by...
Success of ‘bucket brigades’ to fight fires depends on water flow
People in informal settlements are often forced to use the bucket brigade technique (passing buckets of water from one person to another) to suppress a shack fire. Fires develop so fast that even a fire truck ready-and-waiting at a station...