A significant era will come to an end when Prof Mark Cotton retires at the end of the year, after a long and distinguished career as a global specialist in pediatric infectious diseases. Cotton, distinguished Professor in Pediatrics, as...

​Young scholars from all over the world urged to research and find solutions to pressing worldwide issues such as inequality, poverty, and the quest for social justice The South African Government has acted unlawfully and irrationally by...

​​​Taskeen Ebrahim, a doctoral student in Electronic Engineering at Stellenbosch University (SU), has won the SU heat of the 2023* national FameLab competition cycle. The in-person event took place on Thursday (13 October 2022). Kaylan...

Biomedical engineering student to represent South Africa in the final rounds of a global student startup competition. Amohetsoe Shale and her company, NAVU Mobility, will compete against 135 companies from 133 countries for the $1 million...

World Day of Social Justice was observed on 20 February. In an opinion piece for Daily Maverick, Dr Chris Jones (Unit for Moral Leadership) writes that investments in the United Nations​ Sustainable Development Goals can help make social...

​Prof Thulani Makhalanyane from the Department of Microbiology and the School for Data Sciences and Computational Thinking at Stellenbosch University delivered his inaugural lecture on Tuesday 8 October. The title of his lecture was...

The excellence of staff and students of the Faculty of AgriSciences have been acknowledged in many ways over the past few months – from food science to horticulture and meat science. Prof Pieter Gouws of the Department of Food Science was...

​​Exactly a year after the opening of Stellenbosch University's (SU) HortiDemoCentre​ at Welgevallen Experimental Farm, students and staff were delighted to welcome Queen Máxima of the Netherlands to the facility. The Dutch royal couple...

​​The story goes that physicist Albert Einstein lamented not having a solid enough mathematical grounding with which to fully explain some of the ideas he was working on in later life. This Einstein anecdote made such an impression on Prof...

​A plastic duck race to support two meaningful causes is organised by the Social Impact Committee of the Faculty of Education. The whole campus, as well as alumni and the public, are invited to take part and join. All ducks will be removed...