​​While mobile platforms are becoming an increasingly common medical and public health tool, few evaluations of their effectiveness exist. A new joint doctoral thesis from the Karolinska Institute (KI) in Sweden and Stellenbosch University...

​This year, a DST/NRF SA Research Chair in Sugarcane Biorefining was established in the Faculty of Engineering at Stellenbosch University. It is held by Prof Johann Görgens, head of the Bioresource Engineering Group in the Department of...

​Two Stellenbosch University (SU) students have excelled in the January 2024 South African Institute of Chartered Accountants (SAICA) Initial Test of Competence (ITC), making it onto the prestigious Top 10 candidates list. Ryan Crewe-Brown...

You are invited to a virtual seminar hosted by the Department of Business Management. Desmond Nikanor, the chairperson of the Namibia Institute of Corporate

Thirty-seven exceptional first-year students honoured for outstanding Grade 12 results and choosing Stellenbosch University. Fifteen students received Vice-Chancellor’s Awards valued at R100 000, while 22 received Achievers Awards valued at...

Solutions to end world hunger and the destruction of our planet might lie in an unlikely place, in our tiniest and most overlooked six-legged friends, the insects. Just as cattle, fish or other livestock are reared in large numbers – such...

​​Bacteria may be responsible for more than we suspect. Especially when it comes to inflammatory diseases such as Type 2 diabetes. Prof. Resia Pretorius from Stellenbosch University (SU) in South Africa and Prof. Douglas B. Kell from The...

​​​When Professor Clive Gray was a young third-year student in Bristol in the UK in the early 1980s, he went to his first immunology lecture and was “completely fascinated". “I was immediately struck by the anti-idiotypic theory about how...

Soccer can help young men in poor communities develop healthy lifestyle habits, writes Dr Jason Bantjes and Prof Mark Tomlinson of the Department of Psychology in an opinion piece published by The Conversation on Monday (12 September 2016)...

Innovus Technology Transfer Office celebrated researchers wohose work has led to granted patents in 2025