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New postgraduate programme trains strategic human resource managers

​​The Department of Industrial Psychology has announced that it will be launching a new postgraduate programme in human resource (HR) management in January 2021...

New study probes COVID-19 impact on women academics

The findings of a research study on the impact of the COVID-19 lockdown on women academics was at the heart of an online gender enrichment workshop run by the...

Ubuntu and rooibos connected through their intrinsic value

There is a particular connection between the metaphor of Ubuntu and the ecology of Aspalathus linearis, one of the endemic species popularly known in global...

COVID-19 ‘holds significant possibilities for renewal’

“We need to create favourable conditions for meaningful change not only in spite of, but also because of this crisis moment. The COVID-19 moment will impact on...

Fellowship helps Heine tackle heart disease in low-resource settings

​Senior postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Sport and Exercise Medicine (ISEM), Dr Martin Heine, has been accepted into the World Heart Federation's...

#Researchforimpact: Using next-generation genetic tools to save African wild dogs

As human populations grow, space for wildlife continues to shrink, resulting in small, fragmented populations, especially in the case of species that need large...

Sustainable wood-based housing market possible in SA

Researchers at Stellenbosch University (SU) found that South Africa has sufficient log resource options for a sustainable wood residential building market. “Our...

We’ve stopped caring because of compassion fatigue

Compassion fatigue during abnormal times such as the COVID-19 pandemic can cause people to care less for others, writes Prof Dion Forster from the Department of...

Communication from Council (meeting of 21 September 2020)

​On Monday 21 September, the Stellenbosch University (SU) Council had its third meeting of 2020. Although the meeting took place on the first day of level 1 of...

Scanning Electron Microscopy applications in Earth Sciences

​Many geological samples contain a variety of phases. Some of these phases are not easily distinguishable using a backscattering electron detector (BSD). In...
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