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Major grant boosts HIV-related cancer research

Cancer is the leading cause of death among people living with HIV in both high and low resource countries. And the treatment outcome for those patients is often...

Minecraft Education helps improve learners’ coding & robotics skills

​The digital game-based learning platform Minecraft Education can help learners to improve their skills in coding and robotics which will stand them in good...

SU’s Policy Innovation Lab a first in Africa

​Stellenbosch University (SU), through a partnership with the Presidency, the German government and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, this week officially...

World Health Day: Budget cuts threaten right to health

​World Health Day was observed on 7 April. In an opinion piece for the Mail & Guardian, Prof Bob Mash from the Department of Family and Emergency Medicine...

Prof Stephen Matope helps building the future through additive manufacturing

​Prof Stephen Matope from the Department of Industrial Engineering in the Faculty of Engineering at Stellenbosch University delivered his inaugural lecture on...

Master’s student overcomes several obstacles to graduate with distinction in the field that ‘chose her’

For someone who initially thought speech therapy involved teaching people how to write speeches, Ntokozo Ndlovu has excelled in this field, graduating from...

A focus on pursuing and sharing knowledge

After about three years leading the Africa Centre team as interim director, Dr Munya Saruchera is stepping down to focus more of his time and energy on teaching...

A PhD at 25, a job overseas and wedding bells for gifted food scientist

​​​​The first few months of 2024 will always be a memorable milestone in Dr Jana van Rooyen's life. Not only did she obtain a PhD in Food Science at...

App offers hope to PTSD sufferers in SA

​​Many South Africans who are exposed to trauma and suffer from posttraumatic stress order (PTSD) do not always receive the treatment they need to deal with...

Future professors at SU get a big boost with SUNRISE

​A cutting-edge programme to support top academics in their journey to becoming professors was recently introduced at Stellenbosch University (SU). The launch...
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