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Engineering students triumph at International Student Cluster Competition

​​A team of South African computer science and engineering students has won second prize in the International Student Cluster Competition (ISCC), held at the...

Polymer science postgrad shines on international stage

Ms Nonkululeko Radebe, an MSc student in polymer science at Stellenbosch University (SU), was awarded the prestigious Borealis Poster Award at an international...

Baby Protea Stephanie Brandt ready for Netball World Youth Cup

A Matie, a Southern Sting and now a Baby Protea. Goalkeeper Stephanie Brandt (21), who has represented Maties on the netball court since her first year in 2015...

Maties Cheerleaders focus on 2018 after whirlwind start

​​After a whirlwind start to the year and only four months after being formed, the Maties Cheerleading squad came second in the Tertiary All Girl category at...

Personal mobile platform helps prevent spread of HIV

​​While mobile platforms are becoming an increasingly common medical and public health tool, few evaluations of their effectiveness exist. A new joint doctoral...

Catholic Press Association honours Prof Juliana Claassens

Prof Juliana Claassens, Chair of the Department Old and New Testament at Stellenbosch University's Faculty of Theology, aims to “give a voice to women who have...

Producing physicians for tomorrow and beyond

​South Africa's healthcare system is in the midst of multiple changes. It has to expand access in a skewed system that has historically favoured urban over...

Saving the paintbrush lily from extinction

A major effort is underway to conserve the last remaining 60 individual paintbrush lilies ( Haemanthus pumilio) in the Duthie Nature Reserve in Stellenbosch, as...

Socially-integrated engineering research to positively impact fire management in informal settlements

​Stellenbosch University's fire engineering research unit, led by Dr Richard Walls, has received a grant of R4.3m from the UK based, Engineering and Physical...

PANGeA launches its Early Career Fellowship Programme

​The Partnership for Africa's Next Generation of Academics (PANGeA) recently launched its Early Career Fellowship Programme which will offer fellowships to 50...
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