On Monday (25 May) we celebrate Africa Day. In an opinion piece for News24, Dr Nico Elema from the Centre for Collaboration in Africa writes about how Africans are united in the battle against COVID-19. Read the complete article below or...

Stellenbosch University (SU) researchers are playing a leading role in a global trial investigating the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to improve tuberculosis (TB) diagnosis. The project aims to develop and test an algorithm that will...

Are humans and other mammals really smarter than birds? Well not really according to Prof Onur Güntürkün Professor for Biopsychology at the Ruhr-University in Bochum, Germany and also a fellow of the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced...

​​​​Paralympians “push the envelope" as hard as any elite athlete, but they have additional medical challenges that SU researchers are helping them overcome. The Institute of Sport and Exercise Medicine (ISEM) at the Faculty of Medicine and...

Our #howto series aims to share the research tips and techniques presented in our workshops. In this edition, we share how you can co-produce knowledge in health research.

Microvascular research is providing important biological insights that may help guide how we diagnose and treat patients living with complex chronic disorders such as Long COVID and ME/CFS. The Complex Disorder Alliance (CODA) will support...

​This year's #SU Leads conference, which ran from Sunday 4 September to Monday 5 September, explored various themes in a series of discussions aimed at decolonizing "knowledge, spaces and institutional culture". The rector addresses student...

​Jandré Marais, currently a Master's student in Mathematical Statistics at SU's Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, was the winner of the first Data Science Deep Learning Hackathon hosted by the Machine Intelligence Institute of...

​As part of media and marketing in the Department of Genetics, special environmental themed days were highlighted to encourage involvement and wellbeing among students. The first of these days was International Charity Day on 5 September...

​​​​​​Africa can finance its own development and it is already doing it. Unfortunately, too many policymakers in Africa have a mindset of managing poverty, rather than of managing development. Its food system paradox isn't grounded in a...