​​Dr Henriette Burger from the Division of Radiation Oncology at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (FMHS) recently received an ASCO IDEA award from Conquer Cancer, and travelled to Chicago in June 2019 to receive it. The...

​​​​​Stellenbosch University's (SU) Unit for Graduand Career Services strives to be the link between students and employers. The unit, which is based in the Centre for Student Counselling and Development, aims to connect students with the...

As the last to arrive in a family of eight siblings, Dr Rika Preiser has since childhood learnt much about the complexities, interactions, dynamics and undercurrents associated with larger networks or organizations. Today she is a senior...

​​The Ubuntu Learning Community (ULC) is creating an opportunity for incarcerated individuals to learn alongside Stellenbosch University (SU) students and academics. The ULC is South Africa's first prison-university partnership and is...

Matie alumna Roxanne Botman is pursuing further studies in the United Kingdom and hopes to one day become an industry leader in the education technology space. But in between her studies, Roxanne (daughter of former Stellenbosch University...

​​​​​​​​​​​In July 2019, Kirsten Wessels (4 th year food science student) and Michaela van den Honert (postdoctoral fellow at CFS) had the opportunity to visit Micreos in Wageningen, the Netherlands. They learnt all about bacteriophages and...

In July this year, 50 alumni sat down to dinner at Pielows Restaurant in Dublin with Prof Wim de Villiers, Rector and Vice-Chancellor of Stellenbosch University, and the South African ambassador to Ireland, Her Excellency Ms Yolisa Maya...

Prof Deon de Bruin, a professor of Industrial Psychology at Stellenbosch University, delivered his inaugural lecture with the title Measurement in Industrial Psychology: Advances in theory and practice, on 19 August 2019. Prof De Bruin's...

The award-winning writer, editor, satirist and columnist, Ms Mariann Thamm, has called on the next generation to help uncover untruths. She delivered the eighth annual Frederick Van Zyl Slabbert (FVZS) Honorary Lecture at Stellenbosch...

​​​Stellenbosch University (SU) has a zero-tolerance approach to gender-based violence, and is committed to creating an environment free of gender violence and advancing equal rights for all. This commitment is reinforced by the Equality...