​When Professor Louis Jenkins received an email announcing he'd won a prestigious international award for 'Excellence in Health Care', his first instinct was to delete it. The message seemed too good to be true – surely it was spam. But...

Stellenbosch University (SU) recently hosted its second annual Social Impact Awards ceremony, recognising the remarkable individuals and teams whose work is making a profound difference in our communities. From a pioneering initiative that...

Prof Louis Jenkins was been selected for the Africa Five Star Doctor Award from the World Organisation of Family Doctors (WONCA). The WONCA Five Star Doctor Award represents the pinnacle of achievement in family medicine. Jenkins will...

The Stellenbosch University LaunchLab has officially launched the 7th Ideas programme following 6 successful programmes to date! LaunchLab's mission is to facilitate valuable connections for startups and corporates, as well as other...

Fundamental research in Artificial Intelligence and machine learning is essential if Africa wants to have control over some of the really big ideas in the world. This is the message from Dr Nando de Freitas, one of the world's leading...

Caught in the icy grip of winter, the last thing South Africans want is load shedding. But as we've seen over the last few years, Eskom can announce load shedding at any time and throw our lives into disarray. One way to prevent or minimise...

The Rectorate recently approved Stellenbosch University's Staff Health and Wellbeing Plan (SHWP) after extensive consultation with the University's stakeholders, ten faculties and seven responsibility centres. The SHWP aims to support one...

TB researchers recently decided to use hip hop and rap to increase awareness about TB in the community. The #MBHGHipHop TB intervention, which involved researchers and staff from MBHG and learners from Cedar High School of the Arts in...

​​​​Three researchers from Stellenbosch University walked away with top honours at the annual National Science and Technology Forum (NSTF)/ South32Awards. Dr Richard Walls and Profs Christine Lochner and Conrad Matthee were announced...

​All medicines have the potential to cause unwanted, uncomfortable or dangerous effects also known as adverse drug reactions (ADRs). “To protect patients and to identify and characterise evidence-based causal relationships between ADRs and...