​​​​Smallholder farmers that go the extra mile to attract more wild bees and other pollinating insects to their land could harvest up to 24% more fruit or crops as a result. They can harness nature's free pollination service by planting...

​Famous South African documentary photographer, artist, activist and historian Omar Badsha; prominent medical researcher Glenda Gray; and champion for more sustainable societies Markus Reuter were honoured by Stellenbosch University on...

​Compatibility between Rubeshan Nayager's personal values and Stellenbosch University's objectives makes him a good fit for his job as business manager of the brand-new Biorepository Unit at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences'...

Prof Reinette (Oonsie) Biggs, the incumbent of the DST/NRF Research Chair in Social-ecological Systems and Resilience, recently received an A-rating from the National Research Foundation (NRF), a first for the Faculty of Economic and...

​​​Research concerning adolescents has become an international priority in recent years as the global community works towards achieving the ambitious UN Sustainable Development Goal of promoting “well-being for all, at all ages"...

Five, four, three, two, one… Stellenbosch University alumnus, Dr Noel du Toit, is taking the plunge and braving the deep sea on 26 July to live and do research at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean for eight days as part of a NASA mission...

​​What are academic disciplines teaching about race, and do research practices in South Africa support problematic uses of race and other human categorisations in science? These are some of the questions under the microscope at an upcoming...

​Five new species of the enigmatic velvet worm – one of the most ancient Arthropods still living in forested areas of South Africa – have been described in a new study published in the international journal Cladistics. Modern-day velvet...

​The ocean economy opens the ocean to entrepreneurs, innovators, and investors; to small and medium enterprises; and to markets across Africa and beyond. With good governance, inclusive access, accountability, and transparency, a modern-day...

​On 1 March, Bonang Mohale, the CEO of Business Leadership South Africa (BLSA) was at the #MatieHomecoming for a conversation with two MBA graduates from the University of Stellenbosch Business School regarding the topic Will the South...