Exercise is good for you! How many times have you heard this? Do we really know to what extent exercise can influence our bodies? What about the positive impact on our overall health, physically and mentally? Exercise is so much more than...

Innovative South African scientific research about prosthesis control using muscle impulses will compete against other high-tech studies in the 2021 Virtual Global Youth Science and Technology Bowl (GYSTB) Science Fair in Hong Kong. Eskom...

Stellenbosch University (SU) recently hosted the inaugural African Student Leaders Network (ASLN) summit to promote good governance and ethics among student leaders. The two-day online summit connected academics, staff and students from SU...

​​​Sunday (20 June) was World Refugee Day. In an opinion piece for Daily Maverick (18 June), Dr Callixte Kavuro from the Department of Public Law calls on the South African government to make funds available to refugees and asylum seekers...

​​Nematologists of Stellenbosch University's Department of Conservation Ecology and Entomology are part of a new three-year project that funds the development of research and educational capacity in Sub-Saharan Africa on the topic of...

​​The training capacity and expertise at the Division of Radiodiagnosis at Stellenbosch University (SU) will be significantly strengthened by a global learning centre that is being established there with the help of the Radiology Society of...

​​Prof Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, a Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Stellenbosch University, has been selected as the recipient of the 2020 Harry Oppenheimer Fellowship Award.This year marks the 20th anniversary of the...

​ ​The African Union Development Agency (AUDA-NEPAD), in partnership with the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and Stellenbosch University (SU), have launched a Centre of Excellence in Science, Technology and Innovation...

​ It is with great sorrow that the Director of the School of Public Leadership, Prof Zweli Ndevu, his PhD Supervisor, Prof Tania Ajam and our staff and students have learnt of the untimely passing of ​our former doctoral candidate, Mr John...

Professor Angela Dramowski, a paediatric infectious diseases specialist in the Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, was recently appointed as Head Clinical Unit (General Paediatrics) at Tygerberg Hospital, an appointment she said is...