​On Friday (16 June) we celebrate Youth Day. In opinion pieces published in the media, the following staff members and students from Stellenbosch University focus on some of the pressing challenges facing our youth and what should be done...

Why do some people commit violent crimes seemingly just for fun? Have they had particularly bad childhoods, or are they in some way "pre-programmed" to simply get their kicks from vicious aggression? In his PhD research, Khethelo Xulu uses...

Over the past few years the state of democracy in South Africa has been increasingly threatened by large scale corruption, mismanagement of state funds and improper governance practices under President Jacob Zuma's leadership. This is...

In an article published on The Conversation website on Tuesday (6 June 2017), Prof Sophie von der Heyden, from the Department of Botany and Zoology, writes that we must look after our oceans because without them our chances of survival are...

Innovus will again be the official home for Stellenbosch University LaunchLab, when it becomes a division of Innovus, with Brandon Paschal as the new Deputy Director to lead this entrepreneurial incubation hub from 1 July 2023 onwards...

​​Stellenbosch University (SU)'s reputation as one of the leading research-intensive universities in the world received a major boost with the announcement that it has been awarded four of seventeen joint Africa-Europe Clusters of Research...

The School of Accountancy (SoA) has again distinguished itself through two recent collaborative social impact projects that have positively influenced the lives of incarcerated youth and school teachers in the Western Cape. The projects...

​​​​​​​Nikita Sitharam, a dedicated bioinformatics Master's student at Stellenbosch University, is revolutionizing epidemic response in Africa through her ground-breaking research on arboviruses genomes. Sitharam's primary focus is the...

More than 5 000 new Matie students took part in the annual Social Impact Community Morning at Stellenbosch University (SU) during the official Welcoming Week programme for newcomers. On Thursday, 30 January 2020, students had the...

​​The year 2020 marks the 20 th anniversary of the Science and Mathematics at University of Stellenbosch (SciMathUS) university preparation programme. The SciMathUS programme welcomed its 20 th group of students, parents and guardians at...