Prize money of R75 000 – and the ten-year anniversary of the Andries van der Walt medal – were some of the highlights at the award ceremony of the Computer Science Division on 19 March 2019. Every year the Computer Science Division relies...

​LEARNING & TEACHING ENHANCEMENT SEMINAR, 13 MARCH 2019held in Room 3008, Education Building, from 12h45 – 13h45 Ms Mariëtte Volschenk, a lecturer at the Stellenbosch University Centre for Health Professions Education in the Faculty of...

​​​The African Students' Board (ASB) at Stellenbosch University (SU) was established in 2012 to bring together African students on campus, strengthen kinship and advocate for their needs in a unified manner. Seven years down the line, the...

Ethical leadership can help organisations function more effectively and minimise the prevalence of unethical employee behaviour. This was one of the viewpoints of Prof Amos Engelbrecht of the Department of Industrial Psychology at...

​​​​ Prof Wendy Foden is the second South African conservation scientist to receive the George Rabb Award for Conservation Innovation from the Species Survival Commission (SSC) of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)...

The 2019 Sanlam Cape Town Marathon (15 September) is upon us, giving yet another opportunity for Stellenbosch University (SU) staff to show their support and raise money for the student-led #Move4Food campaign. The #Move4Food campaign...

​​​​​SU Teaching Excellence Awards 2021 Applications for the Stellenbosch University (SU) Teaching Excellence Awards 2021 are currently awaited. The Teaching Excellence Awards acknowledge outstanding teaching at SU. All teaching staff –...

Following the recent destructive fire on Table Mountain, Dr Alanna Rebelo , postdoctoral researcher at Stellenbosch University (SU), and Prof Karen Joan Esler , head of SU's Department of Conservation Ecology and Entomology, published an...

The first test week of the academic calendar, notorious for being a stressful period for all students, was met with new and challenging circumstances this year. In response to the devastation of the COVID-19 pandemic, it was therefore...

Naseegha Cariem always dreamed of becoming a teacher. When she enrolled as a first-year student at Stellenbosch University (SU) in 2012, she never imagined the trials she would experience over the years that almost derailed her dreams of...