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Congratulations Earth Sciences Honours class 2021!

​​Earth Science Research Projects were presented and defended last week completing our year 2021. 2021 was again a difficult year, but the class persevered and...

Preliminary results show there are ways to fight borer beetle

​Stellenbosch University (SU) entomologists are continually keeping an eye on the developing issue surrounding the spread of the polyphagous shot hole borer...

COVID-19 vaccination institutional rule

​​​Dear colleagues and students Stellenbosch University (SU) undertook the compulsory risk assessment prescribed by the Consolidated Directions on Occupational...

Final-year med student honoured for his performance, leadership and service

Azhar Adam Nadkar, a final-year medical student at Stellenbosch University (SU) who has earned the reputation of being a “tireless volunteer", an all-rounder...

Multilingualism in higher education – challenges and solutions

This op-ed was published on Netwerk24 on 9 October 2021. Click here to read it on that site, or read a translation below. The extent of the challenge of...

Announcement of new B.1.1.529 variant (Omicron)

Stellenbosch University (SU) notes with concern criticism expressed mainly on social media about the announcement of the new B.1.1.529 Covid-19 variant (Omicron...

Top computer science students recognised for 2020 achievements

​Working on improving the automated image recognition of individual leopards from photographs for her BScHonours project in Computer Sciences at Stellenbosch...

​The hunt for coronavirus variants: how the new one was found and what we know so far​

​The hunt for coronavirus variants: how the new one was found and what we know so far​ Since early in the COVID pandemic, the Network for Genomics Surveillance...

Dr Chris Jones’s book wins most downloaded book award

The BNC congratulates Chris Jones* and Juri van den Heever on winning the following award: Most downloaded book during 2020 in the Humanities & Social Sciences...

Biofilters with indigenous plants more effective in removing pollutants from stormwater

​Biofilters with indigenous South African plants such as palmiet, mat sedge, soft rush, cobra lily and vleibiesie are more efficient than unvegetated soils in...
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