​The South African Society for Animal Science (SASAS) recently recognised the pioneering work of Prof Kennedy Dzama of Stellenbosch University to evaluate the genetics of indigenous South African livestock species. Prof Dzama received the...

" O brave new world, that has such people in it!" Borrowed from Shakespeare's The Tempest, the line titles Aldous Huxley's famed techno-dystopian novel published in 1932, Brave New World. Taking their cue from Huxley's implicit challenge of...

​​​Africa has the potential to “leapfrog" over the rest of the world in the field of genomic surveillance in the next few years, Stellenbosch University bioinformatician Professor Tulio de Oliveira has told a symposium of global scientists...

​​​Hailing from a rural village in Madagascar, Dr Dina Miora's academic journey has taken her to South Africa and Germany and today she is employed as a postdoctoral scientist and image analyst at the Medical Research Council (MRC)...

​​​The eco-friendly SharkSafe Barrier TM technology, developed by marine biologists at Stellenbosch University (SU) and their collaborators, and manufactured in the Western Cape, South Africa, has now been installed at a private island in...

In April, Dr Ethel Phiri and Dr Natasha Mothapo visited the University of Lagos (UniLag), Nigeria, to facilitate new collaborations with African universities in order to strengthen the African research domain. Both Drs Phiri and Mothapo are...

Two MSc students from the Institute for Plant Biotechnology (IPB) of the Department of Genetics at Stellenbosch University (SU), Melt Hugo and Janto Pieters (under the guidance of their supervisors, Drs Shaun Peters and Bianke Loedolff)...

​​​​​​Matia Mukama, a doctoral student in Food Science at Stellenbosch University (SU), won the SU heat of the 2019 FameLab science communication and public speaking competition on Friday (1 February). Carla Snyman, a doctoral student at...

Matia Mukama, a doctoral student in Food Science at Stellenbosch University (SU), won the SU heat of the 2019 FameLab science communication and public speaking competition on Friday (1 February). Carla Snyman, a doctoral student at the...

​Stellenbosch University (SU) Physics student JC Louw is amongst 20 top South African scientists to attend the 69 th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting from June 30 to July 5 in Lindau, Germany. Nominated by the Academy of Science of South...