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Felling pines: doing it sooner rather than later is better for fynbos

Here is some advice for landowners who want to remove pine trees from their properties in the hope of seeing fynbos plants grow there again: if you have any...

SU Teaching Excellence Awards 2017

SU Teaching Excellence Awards 2017 Stellenbosch University initiated an annual system of institutional teaching excellence awards in 2017. The awards were...

Parasport athletes receive national recognition

Two Maties Parasport stalwarts, Ilse Hayes and Dyan Buis, were named South Africa's sportswoman and sportsman of the year with a disability at the SA Sports...

Those with information have power – Prof Joseph Stiglitz

Those who control the information in today's information economy also have more power, said Professor Joseph Stiglitz, University Professor at Columbia...

Transformation at SU – three days at a time

​Spending three days with a group of colleagues representative of various SU environments, discussing racism, sexism, gender and disability would sound daunting...

Dean's Advisory Committee on Transformation – a brief update

Dean's Advisory Committee on Transformation – a brief update on progress As you will be aware, the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (FMHS) is committed...

Innovation in science teaching at SoTL 2017

The Faculty of Science had a total of 12 presentations at the annual Stellenbosch Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) conference this year, with earth...

International recognition for SU computer scientist

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) announced Prof Willem Visser from Stellenbosch University as one of a select group of distinguished members for...

Targeting type 2 diabetes

Diabetes is now South Africa's third leading cause of death after heart disease and HIV/AIDS. Its causes are complex, and to combat it researchers need to...

SU physiologist elected onto IUPS board

Prof Faadiel Essop from the Department of Physiological Sciences at SU has been invited by the International Union for Physiological Sciences (IUPS) to serve on...
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