Sport-based programmes should also focus on participants' individual and environmental circumstances to help solve problems of community safety, violence and risky behaviour, write Dr Christina Laurenzi and Prof Mark Tomlinson (Institute...

​Stellenbosch University (SU) alumna Hanne Mertens credits a balanced and consistent approach to life and study for her achieving first place in the 2021 South African Institute of Chartered Accountants (SAICA)'s first professional exam...

​A Stellenbosch University (SU) massive open online course (also known as MOOC), which started in September 2016, has been such a hit that it also attracted the attention of the United Nations (UN). Entitled Teaching for Change: An African...

GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), a science-led global healthcare company, renewed its research partnership with Stellenbosch University (SU)'s Department of Industrial Engineering on Monday (7 November 2016). The event took place at the Stellenbosch...

Complex problems demand collaboration across disciplines rather than isolated research. The workshop trained fellows in transdisciplinary methods and practical stakeholder-engagement skills. Real social impact in research comes from working...

Maties Sport ended a successful University Sport of South Africa (USSA) campaign, claiming titles in a number of sporting codes. The Maroon Machine took home gold in the A Section of women’s and men’s water polo, chess, women’s golf, as...

It was at the age of 10 that Anika began her track career. While she initially competed in high jump and long jump, her eyesight gradually declined, so she switched to sprinting. Remarkably, the runner continued to run despite being...

​​​​The potential economic impact of the polyphagous shot hole borer in South Africa amounts to a whopping R275 billion over the next ten years, and municipalities will have to bear the brunt of this cost if nothing is done to stem the tide...

​Growing up in Vangaindrano in the south east of Madagascar, it was the precision and rigorousness of mathematics that first drew Dr Eric Andriantiana to the field. Today he holds a Phd in Mathematics from Stellenbosch University and...

Shaahid Kajee, a fourth-year MB,ChB student, represented the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences and Stellenbosch University (SU) at the 9th annual World Student Environmental Network Summit (WSEN) held in June in the United Kingdom (UK...