The numerous challenges in global health, such as climate change and disease, transcend national boundaries, and no single university or research group can solve these alone. What's needed is a multi-disciplinary, inter-disciplinary and...

A melanoma expert with the MD Anderson Cancer Centre at the University of Texas, United States, recently visited Stellenbosch University (SU) to exchange knowledge and ideas about this dangerous form of skin cancer that threatens the health...

​​Prof Ingrid Woolard, Dean of the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, delivered her inaugural lecture entitled Mind the gap: Income inequality in post-apartheid South Africa on 7 August 2019. Woolard, who is also a professor in...

In the heart of the Stellenbosch winter – and at the start of the quiet pause of the University's mid-year recess – a global gathering of sharp legal minds brought energy and critical inquiry to campus. From 30 June to 4 July 2025...

​Information technology is becoming one of ecologists' greatest tools to counter the global threat to biodiversity. But only 5% of existing data sets focusing on factors that threaten biodiversity – such as invasive species, logging and the...

​Having a bird's eye view of the world and using that perspective to advance a multitude of scientific fields and commercial industries lies at the heart of Garth Stephenson's work as general manager of the Centre for Geographical Analysis...

This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. In September 2015 the United Nations General Assembly set the global development agenda for the next 15 years. The adoption of the new sustainable...

​​​Prof Frank Tanser, a leading scientist in HIV research who recently joined Stellenbosch University's (SU) Centre for Epidemic Response and Innovation (CERI) in the School for Data Science and Computational Thinking as Director of...

​Recognising the pressing need for 'future-ready' skill-sets for Africa's fast-changing disaster risks, the Partners Enhancing Resilience for People Exposed to Risks (Periperi U), which is a consortium of twelve African Universities...

In March 2023, to coincide with the celebration of 30 years of internationalisation at Stellenbosch University (SU), the institution officially launched its very first sustainable development annual report. The report, Sustainable...