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Stellenbosch University
SU obligated to investigate accusations
In a communiqué to staff and students related to accusations of a 'blackface' incident in Heemstede, Prof Wim de Villiers, Rector and Vice-Chancellor of Stellenbosch University has appealed to all stakeholders to allow the...
Psychiatry
MRC Unit on Risk and Resilience in Mental Disorders
The South African Medical Research Council (MRC) Unit on Risk and Resilience in Mental Disorders is a cross-university collaboration between the Department of Psychiatry at Stellenbosch University (SU) and the Department of Psychiatry and...
Stellenbosch University
A people’s meeting across continents: SU and Danish delegation rethink how democracy is taught
Three-day visit deepens South Africa-Denmark Democracy Learning Partnership. Dialogue spans welfare states, inequality, youth disengagement and experiential learning. Collaboration enters consolidation phase with plans for mobility, joint...
Stellenbosch University
Tomlinson appointed to WHO group for maternal, child health
In what he has described as a big honour, Prof Mark Tomlinson, co-director of the Institute for Life Course Health Research (ILCHR), has been appointed to a key advisory group of the World Health Organisation (WHO). Tomlinson will be part...
Stellenbosch University
Cancer researcher scoops L’Oreal Women in Science Fellowship
Hannah Simba, a PhD candidate in Public Health (with the African Cancer Institute), has received the L'Oreal Sub-Saharan Africa Women in Science PhD Fellowship. Simba, who is currently working on her PhD study on the topic of oesophageal...
Stellenbosch University
From two cupboards to 170 laboratories within a century
Only a hundred years ago, all the glassware and chemicals for the first professor of Mathematics and Natural Science's Laboratory for Experimental Sciences were stored in two small cupboards in a two-room building that is still standing in...
Horticultural Sciences
First Lady of fruit retires
Pioneering Academic: Prof Karin Theron retired after 36 years at Stellenbosch University as its first female horticulture student, lecturer, and department chair. Industry "First Lady": She transformed the South African fruit and flower...
Stellenbosch University
SU and students on a journey together – Prof Wim de Villiers
Students are fellow travellers on Stellenbosch University (SU)'s journey of inclusivity and of building a community for all. This was the message of the Rector and Vice-Chancellor of SU Prof Wim de Villiers to student leaders in the...
Stellenbosch University
2023 SU–Lund staff development programme draws to a close
2023 SU–Lund staff development programme draws to a close Following a group of ten Stellenbosch University (SU) staffers' visit to Lund University in Sweden in September 2023 as part of a first-of-its-kind mobility programme for support...
Stellenbosch University
Saving the paintbrush lily from extinction
A major effort is underway to conserve the last remaining 60 individual paintbrush lilies ( Haemanthus pumilio) in the Duthie Nature Reserve in Stellenbosch, as well as increase the population through micropropagation. Martin Smit, curator...