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Alex Muthua wants to help improve facial recognition technology
Facial recognition technology is used in many different areas – from airports, retail stores, healthcare, law enforcement and marketing to banks – to identify people through images and videos of their faces. However, a drawback of this...
Gradlinc: addressing South Africa's graduate unemployment crisis with a simple solution
An innovative graduate career development platform — Gradlinc — was launched at the beginning of Stellenbosch University's 2022 graduation week on 5 December 2022. Gradlinc is a must-needed solution to connect employers, graduates, and...
Dietetics graduate’s own life experience will help others
About 13 years ago, Mikyle Rodrigues was a terrified ten-year-old who had been diagnosed with type 1 diabetes and was in hospital with pancreatic failure. The only person who seemed to understand him and who made him feel smart and...
Let’s do IT
Message from Joe Smit, Acting Chief Director Information Technology Like every other year @IT, 2023 was indeed full of surprises, challenges, and changes. For many of the IT staff members, it was probably a rough year. The rapid pace of...
PhD graduate focuses on mental health care in children
When Dr Anusha Lachman, head of the Clinical Unit Child Psychiatry at Tygerberg Hospital, graduated with her PhD in Psychiatry on 6 December, she felt more committed than ever to continue contributing to the field of child psychiatry in...
Extraordinary student on top of the world
When Patricia Zweig (better known as Trish) started studying, at the age of 36, while simultaneously working at various jobs, she never dreamt that she would graduate with a Philosophiae Doctor (PhD) at the age of 62. On 5 December, Zweig...
Mathematical Statistics graduate honoured with coveted Chancellor's Medal
Jean Durand, a Mathematical Statistics graduate with focal area Data Science, is the recipient of Stellenbosch University's (SU) coveted Chancellor's Medal for 2022. The medal is awarded annually to a final-year or postgraduate student...
SU honorary degree for Ghanaian higher education giant
Stellenbosch University (SU) bestowed an honorary doctorate on one of Africa's giants in higher education, Prof Ernest Aryeetey, at its December graduation. He received the degree Doctor of Commerce (DCom), honoris causa, on Thursday (8...
Commitment and resilience enables Deaf teacher to realise his dream
Ten years after matriculating, Imran Bodalaji's relentless pursuit of his dream to become a teacher was realised when he crossed the graduation stage to receive his BEd degree from Stellenbosch University at the December graduation...
Exemplary FMHS colleagues recognised with Chancellor’s Awards
For the past 16 years, Mr Daniel (Dan) Ranna has been lightening up the reception area at Stellenbosch University's (SU) Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (FMHS). As the faculty's reception officer, every day Ranna cheerfully greets...