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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Collaboration helps develop aspiring and emerging scholars in and for Africa

​Africa Universities' Day was celebrated last week (Friday 12 November). In an opinion piece for Cape Times, Prof Sarah Howie from the Africa Centre for...
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