The Department of Business Management at Stellenbosch University recently hosted the 2024 conference of the Southern Africa Institute for Management Sciences (SAIMS). The event also marked the centenary of the Department and concluded after...

​​​Microclimates – as opposed to large-scale regional or even global scale macroclimate models – may hold the key to offsetting the negative impacts of extreme weather events on already vulnerable insect populations. This is the conclusion...

​​Top-up interventions during adolescence can enhance the long-term benefits of interventions delivered in the first 1,000 days of a child’s life, writes Prof Mark Tomlinso​n from the Department of Psychology in an article published...

The week of 24-30 June 2019 marks SANCA Drug Awareness Week. An increasing number of people were admitted for treatment in 2017, from 8 787 in 2016 to 10 047 across 80 centres, as reported by the South African Community Epidemiology Network...

​Two eminent researchers at Stellenbosch University's (SU) Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (FMHS) were recently added to the National Research Foundation's (NRF) prestigious list of A1-rated scientists. Profs Mark Cotton (Department...

At the start of each academic year, the Centre for Student Communities (CSC) and the Transformation Office at Stellenbosch University (SU) host several ResEd workshops across residences as part of the Welcoming Week programme for first...

​​Two methods developed by South African scientists to detect a population-level signal of immune evasion by variants of concern, such as Omicron, will greatly improve public health authorities' timely response to new variants. In a paper...

South Africa's sentencing legislation has not been successful in its objective to reduce the crime rate in the country; instead, the crime rate has increased, which is further driven by high levels of inequality and extreme poverty on the...

​In Covid-19 history, Prof Tulio de Oliveira and his team at Stellenbosch University (SU), as well as the Network for Genomics Surveillance in South Africa (NGS-SA) under his leadership, will be remembered for first detecting the Beta...

Of the 2 421 insect species listed as threatened by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, 27% face risks related to climate change. Strategies for insect conservation in this period of rapid climate change are urgently needed.