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#Researchforimpact: "I Am and I Will" - The united fight against cancer

​​​​Cancer remains a formidable adversary that afflicts all communities without discrimination or boundaries. It impacts the lives of millions, making it a...

SU Teaching Fellowship 2021

​​SU Teaching Fellowship 2021 Teaching fellowships were initiated at Stellenbosch University (SU) in 2009 with the aim of, inter alia, providing an opportunity...

Exercise is Medicine: Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness

So, I think it's safe to assume that almost all of us at one stage or another have woken up, tried to move and been like, “What the heck have I done?" As we lie...

World’s largest experiment shows shack fires move with devastating speed

​Twenty shacks destroyed in five minutes. That's how quickly fires can spread in informal settlements. This is one of the major results of the world's largest...

Global Week 2020

​​​​ #Listenexpericetravelgrow SUI invites all Maties students to become Global Citizens! Every semester we host a global week the aim being to create a...

Strategies to reduce fires in informal settlements

During Fire Prevention Week (4–10 October) the focus is, among others, on reducing the risk of fires in informal settlements. In opinion pieces for Cape Times...

Alumni honoured for work on Sundowner

​Two alumni of the Faculty of AgriSciences were honoured at the 2020 Deciduous Fruit Industry Excellence Awards for their ability to put agricultural research...

#Researchforimpact: A new genomic database for breast cancer patients

​​​The integration of genomic research and routine clinical service delivery became a reality when co-investigators Prof Maritha Kotze and Prof Karin Baatjes...

SU lecturer is advancing mental health research in Africa

With the world still in the midst of a global Covid-19 pandemic, many countries including South Africa, have seen a surge in the number of mental health cases...

World Teachers' Day: SU experts focus on educational challenges

​Monday (5 October) is World Teachers' Day. In opinion pieces for Mail & Guardian and Die Burger respectively, Profs Maureen Robinson and Michael le Cordeur...
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