Prof Billy Boshoff, from the Unit for Construction Materials (UCM), Stellenbosch University, visited the University of Bath for three months in the beginning of 2017 as part of his sabbatical. The title of the collaborative project is:...

​Mr Riccardo Swanepoel was awarded Stellenbosch University's (SU) Chancellor's Medal for 2016, yesterday (7 December) during the graduation ceremony of the Faculties of AgriSciences and Engineering. This is the highest honour the University...

Prof Anton van Niekerk, a Distinguished Professor in Philosophy and Director of the Centre for Applied Ethics in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, has been invited to participate in a debate on research centres in Rome, Italy, by the...

There were two groups of athletes. First they cycled for 30 seconds as fast as they could on a stationary bicycle. Then they ran as fast as they could for 40m. And then they were asked to jump as high as possible off each individual leg...

Cancer, from its first documented evidence ~3000 BC to what we would consider the brink of the 5th industrial revolution, remains a formidable adversary that afflicts all communities without discrimination or boundaries. Its burden impinges...

Wednesday (12 May) is International Nurses Day. In an opinion piece for Cape Times, Prof Portia Jordan from the Department of Nursing and Midwifery writes about how nurses are transforming the future of healthcare. ​Read the article below...

Wednesday (16 December) is Reconciliation Day. In an opinion piece for News24, Dr Chris Jones (Unit for Moral Leadership) writes that to achieve a more united and reconciled future that so many South Africans want, we'll have to uphold and...

The International Day of Women Judges was observed recently (10 March). In an opinion piece for the Cape Times, Prof Nicola Smit, Dean of Faculty of Law, wrote that we should commit ourselves to develop and implement the necessary...

​Ways of including animals and plants into the food system while still supporting conservation were discussed at a recent African Food Dialogue panel discussion at Stellenbosch University (SU). The event was hosted by the SU Faculty of...

Stellenbosch University (SU) acknowledges that visual symbols evoke different emotions and experiences amongst people, especially in a diversified and historically divided country like South Africa. In principle, a historical interpretation...