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Innovative first-year med student launches ‘bot’ to recruit organ donors
Thousands of people in South Africa are in need of organs to save their lives, and yet a miniscule percentage of the country's population are organ donors. In fact, South Africa has one of the smallest organ donor populations in the world...
SU bursary a launch pad for successful career in sport physiotherapy
A physiotherapy graduate from 2012 has been selected as one of the Mail & Guardian newspaper's Top 200 South Africans for 2021, an honour which has led to him paying warm tribute to his lecturers and mentors at the Faculty of Medicine and...
Magnesium: an underrated mineral supplement for improved sleep and mental health
Adding a magnesium supplement to your daily routine may help to relieve a variety of sleep disorders and improve your quality of life, health, and mental wellbeing. This is the view of Dr Hanél Sadie-Van Gijsen from the Centre for Cardio...
Prof Robinson elected as president of SAERA
Stellenbosch University's (SU) Prof Maureen Robinson has been elected president of the South African Education Research Association (SAERA). Robinson is one of the founding members of SAERA, which was launched in 2013. The organisation's...
SU chemist elected first president of African Crystallographic Association
Prof Delia Haynes, a chemist at Stellenbosch University's Department of Chemistry and Polymer Science, was elected as the first president of the newly established African Crystallographic Association (AfCA). AfCA was officially constituted...
State-of-the-art biorepository a first in Africa
The brand new, state-of-the-art Biorepository Unit that was recently established at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences makes storage of precious biological samples safer, simpler and more affordable in the long term. The Unit...
Leading global scientists gather in Stellenbosch to shine a light on the critical need for TB research
We are in the middle of a “Golden Age" of tuberculosis (TB) research, both pre-clinically and clinically, that, if successful, could see the end of tuberculosis by 2030. This is according to Dr Clifton E. Barry III, C hief of the...
First short course for book clubs a resounding success
If you relish reading and would like to get more out of Afrikaans novels and volumes of poetry, you've just missed an opportunity to learn how to delve deeper into literature and read with greater insight. The Department of Afrikaans and...
Biofilters with indigenous plants more effective in removing pollutants from stormwater
Biofilters with indigenous South African plants such as palmiet, mat sedge, soft rush, cobra lily and vleibiesie are more efficient than unvegetated soils in removing pollutants from urban stormwater which can have a detrimental impact on...
Dr Chris Jones’s book wins most downloaded book award
The BNC congratulates Chris Jones* and Juri van den Heever on winning the following award: Most downloaded book during 2020 in the Humanities & Social Sciences AOSIS Scholarly Domain Book Title: Moral Issues in the Natural Sciences and...