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GeoInformatics
GeoInformatics
Meet Priya Pillay: #MyTygerMaties60
As part of its 60th-anniversary celebrations, the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences is introducing 60 future healthcare professionals who are currently in their first year. Meet Priya Pillay.If it hadn’t been for her parents and...
SA’s coloured population worst affected by diabetes
One in four adults in the Western Cape's coloured population may be affected by type 2 diabetes. This is one of the findings of a study into the prevalence of type 2 diabetes among the Bellville South community in the northern suburbs of...
Multilingualism
Multilingualism
Will sugar tax help tackle obesity and diabetes?
Monday (14 November 2016) is World Diabetes Day. In an opinion piece in The New Age, Prof Faadiel Essop of the Department of Physiological Sciences asks whether the proposed sugar tax will help to reduce South Africans' sugar intake and, in...
Feast of laser physics at SU
More than 50 postgraduate students and research partners in laser physics from Africa and internationally will descend on Stellenbosch University (SU) in November 2016 for the ninth African Laser Centre (ALC) student workshop, as well as...
Merit Bursary
Merit Bursary
Science student rediscovers long-lost species
A BSc honours student from Stellenbosch University not only rediscovered a plant species that was last seen in 1928, and presumed to be extinct, but will also focus on the plant for his MSc in order to develop a management plant for its...
Lancewood, Yara and Nexus AG take the lead as sponsors of golf day
"Every year the Faculty of AgriSciences financially supports students who show academic potential but who would, without support, be unable to further their studies. We are therefore extremely grateful for the way in which our industry...
World Prematurity Day: Feeding the premature infant
World Prematurity Day, commemorated on 17 November, celebrates the lives of premature babies and aims to raise awareness of the condition. "Every year an estimated 15 million babies are born too early – that equates to more than one in...