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Only smallholder farmers can embrace wild bees to harvest more, says SA entomologist
Smallholder farmers that go the extra mile to attract more wild bees and other pollinating insects to their land could harvest up to 24% more fruit or crops as a result. They can harness nature's free pollination service by planting...
World Cancer Day 2016 – We Can I Can
World Cancer Day is marked on 4 February and the theme for this year is "We Can I Can". "This theme recognises that the continued battle against cancer is not a singular effort and a unified response is needed to ensure a path to victory,"...
Stellenbosch pomegranate researcher honoured with African Union Science Prize
The African Union (AU) has bestowed one of its highest scientific honours upon agricultural engineer and postharvest technology expert Prof Umezuruike Linus Opara of Stellenbosch University in South Africa. He received the AU Kwame Nkrumah...
Reading project inspires change at Tygerberg Children’s Hospital
This article appeared in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences' digital publication VIVUS . Visit www.sun.ac.za/FMHSpublications to subscribe. Mothers of new-born babies and children have experienced the joy and benefits of reading...
Joint PhD awarded by the Vrije and Stellenbosch Universities
Dr Regan Solomons recently became the first person at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences to qualify for the joint PhD degree between the Vrije University (VU) and Stellenbosch University (SU) after he successfully defended his...
Mammographic screening works, says SU expert
Does mammographic screening for breast cancer work or not? This was the question Prof Justus Apffelstaedt of the Division of Surgery in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at Stellenbosch University (SU), tried to answer on...
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‘Faculties to adhere to Language Policy and Language Plan’ - Council Chair
Statement by Mr George Steyn, Chairperson of the Stellenbosch University Council: All faculties at Stellenbosch University (SU) should implement the languages of instruction in accordance with the approved Language Policy and Language Plan...
Military Academy welcomes new students
"Focus on your studies 100% from day one. Grab this opportunity with both hands and never let go of it. It is your key to life, both in terms of broadening options to life and further more enabling you as a citizen of this country to make a...
New malaria tests can reduce overtreatment of malaria by 95%
Research by Dr Eleanor Ochodo, a senior scientist at the Centre for Evidence-based Health Care of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, looking at new malaria tests has shown that overtreatment of this disease can be reduced by 95%...