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PhD graduate focuses on mental health care in children

​When Dr Anusha Lachman, head of the Clinical Unit Child Psychiatry at Tygerberg Hospital, graduated with her PhD in Psychiatry on 6 December, she felt more...

Dietetics graduate’s own life experience will help others

​About 13 years ago, Mikyle Rodrigues was a terrified ten-year-old who had been diagnosed with type 1 diabetes and was in hospital with pancreatic failure. The...

Alex Muthua wants to help improve facial recognition technology

​Facial recognition technology is used in many different areas – from airports, retail stores, healthcare, law enforcement and marketing to banks – to identify...

German vice chancellor ‘very impressed’ with SU’s research, facilities

​A delegation of high-level German visitors, including the German Vice Chancellor, recently met with top Stellenbosch University (SU) scientists at the new...

SU cements relationships with leading European universities

​In November, Stellenbosch University (SU) hosted the The Guild of European Research-Intensive Universities on the Stellenbosch campus for knowledge exchange...

PhD graduate addresses gender-based violence

​S’lindile Thabede studied somatology after high school and worked as a therapist in skin and body care for several years. This month, just over a decade after...

Agricultural pioneer receives honorary degree from SU

​​Thomas Dreyer (Tommie) van Zyl, a prominent thought leader and innovator in South Africa’s agriculture sector, was awarded an honorary degree by his alma...

DRD presents new digital magazine "Research for Impact"

​​Welcome to ‘Research for Impact’, the digital research magazine of the Division for Research Development (DRD) https://www0.sun.ac.za/resear…...

MFM shines at SA Radio Awards

​​Presenters from the Stellenbosch community radio station MFM 92.6 did Stellenbosch University (SU) proud at the SA Radio Awards held on Saturday, 26 November...

PhD graduate doesn’t let diabetes get the better of her

​​Four to six times a day. That's how often Dr Yolandi Swart from Pretoria must inject herself with insulin because her life depends on it. Having been...
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