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USB’s SBA Development Programme launched in the Eastern Cape

Small businesses operating in the Eastern Cape will benefit from a new development programme – a joint initiative between the Small Business Academy (SBA) of...

Learning about teaching and learning

Prof Ian Couper, director of the Ukwanda Centre for Rural Health, recently completed the Teaching Advancement at Universities (TAU) Fellowship that aims to...

World Prematurity Day: Feeding the premature infant

World Prematurity Day, commemorated on 17 November, celebrates the lives of premature babies and aims to raise awareness of the condition. "Every year an...

Is post-traumatic stress disorder in your genes?

Can post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) be passed down through generations in shared family genes? Could a simple blood test tell if you're genetically...

New Deputy Registrar for Tygerberg Campus

The Registrar's Division of Stellenbosch University (SU) and the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (FMHS) are delighted to announce the appointment of Ms...

​Lancewood, Yara and Nexus AG take the lead as sponsors of golf day

"Every year the Faculty of AgriSciences financially supports students who show academic potential but who would, without support, be unable to further their...

Science student rediscovers long-lost species

A BSc honours student from Stellenbosch University not only rediscovered a plant species that was last seen in 1928, and presumed to be extinct, but will also...

Feast of laser physics at SU

More than 50 postgraduate students and research partners in laser physics from Africa and internationally will descend on Stellenbosch University (SU) in...

Will sugar tax help tackle obesity and diabetes?

Monday (14 November 2016) is World Diabetes Day. In an opinion piece in The New Age, Prof Faadiel Essop of the Department of Physiological Sciences asks whether...

SA’s coloured population worst affected by diabetes

​One in four adults in the Western Cape's coloured population may be affected by type 2 diabetes. This is one of the findings of a study into the prevalence of...
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