Awards and milestones
Prof Lindy Heinecken receives the Morris Janowitz Career Achievement Award for her stellar career in military fraternity
Caption: Sociology and Social Anthropology Senior Lecturer Prof Lindy Heinecken and Associate Prof Alan Okros, Deputy Director of Research in the Dallaire...
Awards and milestones
Two SU graduates to swap Eikestad for Oxford in 2026 as Rhodes Scholars
Kerry Porrill and Dr Nandipa Mponda from Stellenbosch University will swap the Eikestad for Oxford next year when they join a global cohort of more than 100...
Awards and milestones
SU scoops 27 accolades at annual national marketing and communication awards
This year’s annual Marketing, Advancement and Communication in Higher Education (MACE) Excellence Awards can best be summed up with the lyrics from Frankie...
Education
Confucius Institute at Stellenbosch University Receives Recognition for Excellence in Digital Application and Practice
On 16 November, the First Confucius Institute Digital Application and Practice Case Selection Awards Ceremony took place during the 2025 World Chinese Language...
Institutional news
SU secures leading positions in 2025 Shanghai Subject Rankings
If you are interested in studying Food Science & Technology, Biotechnology, Communication, Biological Sciences or Agricultural Sciences in South Africa, look no...
Campus life
New thinking in Faculty about SU’s past and future
By Desmond Thompson
When a study on “Age- and education-related effects on cognitive functioning in Coloured South African women” was published in 2019, it...
Awards and milestones
Two young SU scientists recognised for excellence in their respective fields
Two scientists from Stellenbosch University (SU) have been inaugurated as members of the South African Young Academy of Science (SAYAS).
Dr Phila Msimang and Dr...
Arts, languages and social sciences
Literary giants probe writing, power and belonging in Chancellor’s Lecture
What, truly, is the meaning of the Nobel Prize for Literature? Who – writer, nation, language or market – does it finally serve? Might it be time, as JM Coetzee...
Engineering and technology
Engineering first-year among Top 10 innovators at YouthX Nedbank Awards
First-year Electrical and Electronic Engineering student Tumelo Mokoena was recently named among South Africa’s top 10 innovators at the 2025 YouthX Nedbank...
Awards and milestones
The University of Venda appoints Stellenbosch University alumnus Professor Fulufhelo (Fulu) Netswera as Vice Chancellor Research and Postgraduate Studies
Fulufhelo is a Development Sociology graduate of 2005 at Stellenbosch University. He says that his doctoral experience at Stellenbosch under the supervision of...