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Indigenous, underutilised crops can boost food and nutrition security in Africa

​Africa Day for Food and Nutrition Security was celebrated on Monday 30 October. In an opinion piece for the Cape Times, Dr Ethel Phiri from the Sustainable...

Message from the Rector - assessment wishes and important information about SU support services

​​​​​​​Dear students At the start of the November assessment period at Stellenbosch University (SU), I would like to wish you all the best with your exam...

Prominent microbiome scientist, Thulani Makhalanyane, joins Stellenbosch University

​​Stellenbosch University welcomes internationally renowned microbiome researcher Thulani Makhalanyane, who joins the University today (1 November) to take up a...

Eco-friendly shark barrier technology from South Africa installed in the Bahamas

​​​The eco-friendly SharkSafe Barrier TM technology, developed by marine biologists at Stellenbosch University (SU) and their collaborators, and manufactured in...

SUNLearn 2024 Module Rollover

Dear SUNLearn facilitators (1-11-2023) It is that time of the year again to bring 2023 to completion and to start with the rollover process to activate modules...

The Sky is not the limit

She remembers how her mother told her the sky was the limit. Only when she was sitting on the highest peak of the world, did Saray Khumala realise that her...

New group of Dell Young Leaders start their journey

Not even the rain could dampen the spirit of hope and exuberance among the 213 Stellenbosch University first-year students welcomed into the Dell Young Leaders...

Prof Jonathan Jansen formally inducted as member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences

​Rubbing shoulders with leading international scholars was an “experience of a lifetime", says Prof Professor Jonathan Jansen, Distinguished Professor in...

My Brew Coffee Roastery sponsors student’s field trip to Mongolia

Dr Ryan T. Tucker and postgraduate student Jesse van Niekerk recently returned from an eight-week-long field trip to the East Gobi Basin in Mongolia to collect...

New CIRCoRe workstream head aims to advance categorisation and science at SU

​​Phila Msimang, the incoming Head of the CIRCoRe Workstream “Race, Human Categorisation and Science" (RHCS), recently met with the Stellenbosch University (SU)...
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