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Bridging the gap between academia and job opportunities with Stellenbosch University's New Techpreneurship Cen
In February 2021 the Stellenbosch University LaunchLab in partnership with SU School for Data Science and Computational Thinking will be launching its newly established SU Techpreneurship Centre. The goal is to provide final year students...
What we should also be celebrating on Heritage Day
September is Heritage Month with festivities reaching a crescendo on Heritage Day (24 September). In an opinion piece for Daily Maverick, Prof Nico Koopman (Deputy Vice-Chancellor: Social Impact, Transformation and Personnel) writes that...
Innovation helps TygerMaties navigate Covid-19 restrictions on training platform
An innovative new clinical training plan has enabled fifth-year medical students at Stellenbosch University's Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (FMHS) to navigate the restrictions placed on the training platform due to the Covid-19...
Communication from Council (meeting of 21 September 2020)
On Monday 21 September, the Stellenbosch University (SU) Council had its third meeting of 2020. Although the meeting took place on the first day of level 1 of the COVID-19 lockdown, which permits face-to-face gatherings, we decided to...
We’ve stopped caring because of compassion fatigue
Compassion fatigue during abnormal times such as the COVID-19 pandemic can cause people to care less for others, writes Prof Dion Forster from the Department of Systematic Theology and Ecclesiology in an opinion piece for Mail & Guardian...
Sustainable wood-based housing market possible in SA
Researchers at Stellenbosch University (SU) found that South Africa has sufficient log resource options for a sustainable wood residential building market. “Our study showed that with the use of wood resources currently exported as chips...
Casual Day: We need a society truly inclusive of people with disabilities
Casual Day is celebrated annually on the first Friday in September (1 September in 2023). In opinion pieces for the media, staff at the Disability Unit at Stellenbosch University emphasise the importance of creating an inclusive society...
#Researchforimpact: Using next-generation genetic tools to save African wild dogs
As human populations grow, space for wildlife continues to shrink, resulting in small, fragmented populations, especially in the case of species that need large territories. Natural mechanisms for maintaining biodiversity include the...
Fellowship helps Heine tackle heart disease in low-resource settings
Senior postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Sport and Exercise Medicine (ISEM), Dr Martin Heine, has been accepted into the World Heart Federation's prestigious Salim Yusuf Emerging Leaders Programme, an accolade which, he said, is an...
COVID-19 ‘holds significant possibilities for renewal’
“We need to create favourable conditions for meaningful change not only in spite of, but also because of this crisis moment. The COVID-19 moment will impact on future agency and holds significant possibilities for renewal. We might, for...