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#MaroonMondays: Show your Maties spirit!
Join the #MaroonMonday movement. The Development and Alumni Relations Division (DAR) and Maties Sport are asking staff, students, and alumni to get behind our manne in maroon, while also doing their part for the student community. “To show...
Researchers harness artificial intelligence for rare disease diagnosis
The families of patients with rare genetic diseases have, historically, struggled for years – or even for entire lifetimes – to get a correct diagnosis for their disease. But these often gruelling “diagnostic odysseys" might soon be a...
International Mother Language Day: Indigenous languages must be promoted
International Mother Language Day was observed on Monday 21 February. In an opinion piece for Cape Times, Dr Simthembile Xeketwana (Department of Curriculum Studies) says we should do more to promote our indigenous languages so that they...
SUNLearn 2024 Module Rollover
Dear SUNLearn facilitators (1-11-2023) It is that time of the year again to bring 2023 to completion and to start with the rollover process to activate modules for 2024. As before, all registered 2024 modules will be created on SUNLearn...
Prof Sandra Swart makes (her own) history
As an environmental historian working on the relationship between people and animals, Stellenbosch University’s Prof Sandra Swart has made history herself numerous times. In 2016 she was the first woman to be appointed as a full professor...
TB researcher receives grant from the Wellcome Trust
Dr Wynand Goosen, from the Animal TB Research group in the Division of Molecular Biology and Human Genetics at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (FMHS), has received a substantial grant from the Wellcome Trust to develop novel...
Gridlock on SA soybean yields can be broken
There are ways and means to give South African soybean yields much needed impetus. To do so, farmers will have to make some changes to how they handle their cropping systems and soils. This is according to Dr Stephano Haarhoff, an...
Encouraging Engagement with the SU Assessment Policy
The SU Assessment Policy was approved in 2021 and the Division for Learning and Teaching Enhancement (DLTE) identified the need to reflect on it to support the implementation of the policy in collaboration with faculties. Assessment has...
SU Research Fellow co-authors a report on the oversight role of parliaments during the COVID-19 pandemic
Dr Wilhelm Janse van Rensburg (PhD), Parliamentary Researcher on Defence and Research Fellow with SIGLA (Stellenbosch University), co-authored a report on the oversight role of parliaments during the COVID-19 pandemic funded by the Geneva...
South Africans with rare diseases still being left behind
February is Rare Disease Month with Rare Disease Day being observed on 28 February. In an opinion piece for Health24, Prof Shahida Moosa (Division of Molecular Biology and Human Genetics / Rare Disease Genomics in South Africa Group) calls...