​​​​​​​​​​​In July 2019, Kirsten Wessels (4 th year food science student) and Michaela van den Honert (postdoctoral fellow at CFS) had the opportunity to visit Micreos in Wageningen, the Netherlands. They learnt all about bacteriophages and...

​​Prof Yin-Zhe Ma from the Department of Physics in the Faculty of Science at Stellenbosch University (SU) delivered his inaugural lecture on Tuesday 13 August 2024. The title of his lecture was “Unravelling the mysteries of the Universe"...

Stellenbosch University's (SU) Prof Kennedy Dzama, Vice-Dean for Research, Postgraduate Studies and Innovation in the Faculty of AgriSciences, has been appointed Chair of the Southern Africa Food Lab ( SAFL), an initiative dedicated to...

Stellenbosch University (SU) has stepped up to guide one of the most contested yet vital responses to global warming: Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR). SU hosted a first-of-its-kind national science-policy workshop at the Stellenbosch Institute...

Two phenomenal minds dazzled a Stellenbosch audience recently when they spent 90 minutes in awe of the intellectual and creative gymnastics of the renowned scholar Prof Homi Bhabha and the acclaimed artist William Kentridge. Entitled “The...

In early January 2017, academic staff and postgraduate students from Stellenbosch University's Institute for Plant Biotechnology (IPB) attended the 43rd annual conference of the South African Association of Botanists (SAAB) at the Lagoon...

Two researchers in the Faculty of Science, Prof. Bert Klumpermann and Prof. Leon Dicks, were honoured for outstanding academic achievement when they both received a Chancellor's Award at Stellenbosch University's last graduation ceremony...

One of the most important molecules in the human body was the centre of attention at StellenCoA2018, the third international conference on Coenzyme A in Health, Disease and Bioscience. The meeting took place at the Stellenbosch Institute...

​Both the government and the private sector should help develop rural areas through agriculture to lessen the negative impact of rising unemployment and low economic activity, write Wandile Sihlobo (Agricultural Business Chamber of South...

​​The article Former bursary student hits a six and lands top job at WPCA by a staff reporter of the Mail & Guardian was published in the Mail & Guardian on 4 June 2020. Read the article below or click here​ to read it as published. For 18...