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Stellenbosch University
Guest lecture: Prof Calie Pistorius
On 11 September, Prof Calie Pistorius will deliver a lecture on Technological innovation: Managing the strategic business impact, opportunities and risks presented by emerging technologies. The lecture will address the management of...
Stellenbosch University
‘I want to pave a new way for the generation coming after me’
As an award-winning food scientist, Sinesipho Galada has found her true passion. And it's all thanks to Stellenbosch University's SciMathUS programme, which she says introduced her to the wonders of food science. Galada's passion led to...
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A Revitalized Van der Sterr Building – 10 years on
As the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences commemorates its centenary year, this year also marks ten years since the fire that ravaged parts of the faculty’s Van der Sterr Building in February 2015. This challenging event brought...
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Sandra Liebenberg nominated for UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Prof Sandra Liebenberg, HF Oppenheimer Chair in Human Rights Law and Distinguished Professor at the Faculty of Law, has been nominated by the South African government as the country's candidate to serve on the United Nations' Committee...
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Can seabirds detect infrasound?
Can seabirds detect infrasound? And if yes, do they use it to navigate the vast oceans? A physiological ecologist from Stellenbosch University (SU), Dr Susana Clusella-Trullas, will be charting unsailed waters as she sets out to answer...
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FMHS lecturer’s award to advance palliative medicine in SA
Dr Henriette Burger from the Division of Radiation Oncology at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (FMHS) recently received an ASCO IDEA award from Conquer Cancer, and travelled to Chicago in June 2019 to receive it. The...
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Many reasons to be thankful
2018 was a very successful year for the Central Analytical Facilities (CAF). Some of the things to be thankful for, is the Vibrational Spectroscopy Unit which was added and the DNA Sequencer Unit which celebrated 21 years. [Please see...
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Lifesaving both a sport and a lifestyle for Accounting student
Stellenbosch University student Lauren Billson (22) loves the outdoors and while other people might run the other way, this SA lifesaver relishes the challenge of facing sub-10 degree water, massive waves, a flotilla of bluebottles and the...
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Salt intake and your kidneys: how are they linked?
World Salt Awareness Week is observed during the first part of March, and a few days later is World Kidney Day (12 March 2020). This is a good time to gain an understanding of how your kidneys and the intake of salt from your diet are...
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Postdoctoral fellow puzzled by genetics of invasive beetle
Geneticist Dr Anandi Bierman, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Conservation Ecology and Entomology at Stellenbosch University (SU) is one of many researchers who are trying their best to keep a small pest named the shot hole...