The main challenge in aquaponics – the combination of raising fish (aquaculture) and growing plants without soil (hydroponics) – is the imbalance between the nutrients of the fish and the plants grown in the system, as each has its own...

Researchers “switched off” gene linked to how grapevine plants respond to disease. Plants less vulnerable to downy mildew; able to conserve water more effectively. First time that DNA of woody crop plant in Africa has been edited...

The Maroon Machine are busy with final preparations ahead of the University Sport South Africa (USSA) games, scheduled to take place during 2-16 December across the country. This year’s summer games come with nine sporting codes competing...

By Jamie Wyngaardt. Maties Sport has competed in the Western Cape Intervarsity Tournament along with sister universities, University of Western Cape (UWC), University of Cape Town (UCT), and Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT)...

​It is with great sorrow that we mourn the passing of Prof. Jens Kossmann. He was an early pioneer of the use of molecular biology to study plant metabolism. His work both as a Ph.D student at the Institut für Genbiologische Forchung...

Stellenbosch University's Prof. Thulani Makhalanyane has been appointed as an Honorary Research Associate of the NRF-South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB), an internationally recognized institute, famous for their work on...

​Researchers at Stellenbosch University's (SU) newly established African Microbiome Institute will be explorers entering a largely undiscovered world – the human microbiome. Acting as Director of the Institute is Prof Stephen O'Keefe, an...

The Stellenbosch University Museum and The Armah Institute of Emotional Justice invite you to the screening of the short film: Goodbye to the Emotional Mammy

​​Stellenbosch University (SU)'s reputation as one of the leading research-intensive universities in the world received a major boost with the announcement that it has been awarded four of seventeen joint Africa-Europe Clusters of Research...

​TIME Magazine has recognized Prof Tulio de Oliveira in its inaugural 2024 TIME100 Health list, a new annual compilation that celebrates 100 individuals who have had the most impact on global health this year. This recognition, determined...