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Young changemakers learn from international experts

Nick Wayne, a fourth-year medical student and chairperson of the Tygerberg Student Council, attended a prestigious international summit earlier this year which...

Mothers must be supported to breastfeed

Most people are aware of the various advantages of breastmilk and breastfeeding. However, not all employers and colleagues support working mothers to continue...

Live streaming the Rector and Libertas Choir to Germany – a first for SU

When the German technicians let us know "standby to go live in five minutes", we knew the teamwork and planning for streaming the Rector and the Libertas choir...

Experts call for early interventions to eliminate hepatitis

The first ever strategy for the elimination of viral hepatitis was adopted by World Health Assembly (WHA) in May this year, and as a result the theme for the...

Impact of TB diagnostic tests evaluated

Dr Eleanor Ochodo has been awarded a fellowship in Public Health and Tropical Medicine by the Wellcome Trust to develop a framework for the design of clinical...

IPB representatives attend European Plant Biology Congress

Staff and postgraduate students from the Institute for Plant Biotechnology (IPB) attended the mid-year Plant Biology Europe EPSO/FESPB 2016 Congress in Prague...

SU experts write about nature conservation

Today (28 July 2016) is World Nature Conservation Day. In opinion pieces in the media, experts at Stellenbosch University highlight nature conversation issues...

Dr Ronald Kahn presents Thys Visser Commemorative Lectures

Earlier this week, Stellenbosch University hosted Dr Ronald N Kahn of BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager, when he presented the biennial Thys Visser...

New book: State, governance and development in Africa.

The inspiration for this book was a Summer School on State, Governance and Development presented by distinguished academics from the School of Oriental and...

New yeast species named after SU scientist

A microbiologist from Stellenbosch University (SU), Prof. Alf Botha, has been honoured for his contribution to the study of yeast ecology with a newly...
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