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#Researchforimpact: The satirical jeweller
Satire is not only the realm of stand-up comedians and cartoonists. It is also the domain of contemporary jewellers, if a recent award-winning portfolio of SU visual arts lecturer Ms. Joani Groenewald is anything to go by. “My pieces are...
Prof Elmi Muller’s work has saved lives, still impacts legal and healthcare policy
Prof Elmi Muller, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at Stellenbosch University, delivered her inaugural lecture on Tuesday 29 August 2023. The title of her lecture was “Fugitive reflections on pain, death, and surgery"...
Rooibos on the agenda for Women's Day
Alumni who tuned into the Faculty of AgriSciences's first virtual Women's Day event hopefully all had a warm cup of rooibos tea nearby while listening to a talk on the production of this indigenous tea. It was presented by Lize du Preez, a...
SU Librarians shine in international forums
“Fake news will remain with us" - this is the view of Ms Ellen Tise, Senior Director of the Library and Information Service of Stellenbosch University (SU), who was sharing her perspective on the role of libraries in the fight against...
A world of possibilities for first-ever International Business graduates
In an interview published on Litnet, Prof Pierre Erasmus of the Department of Business Management at Stellenbosch University spoke about the BCom (International Business) degree, of which he is Programme Coordinator. The four-year BCom...
Let’s celebrate the first one
It's most probably the language in which you'd swear when you get a very sudden fright. Chances are that you also dream in this language. If you're lucky, you'll know nursery rhymes in it, and maybe even a few archaic idioms and made-up...
SU to continue to build on 2020 successes
Stellenbosch University's (SU) overarching priorities for 2021 remain the same as last year: to succeed with the academic project, and to remain sustainable as a leading higher education institution. Addressing about 600 staff during the...
Research to improve the lives of children exposed to HIV, but uninfected
Professor Amy Slogrove, a paediatrician and epidemiologist in the Department of Paediatrics and Child Health at Stellenbosch University (SU), was recently awarded a $2 225 382 (more than R33 million) grant from the National Institutes of...
New tripartite doctoral programme launched
A new doctoral programme led and coordinated by Stellenbosch University's Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences to support university staff members to complete their PhDs was launched recently. The South Africa-UK University Staff...
From Namibia and Tanzania to Ghana – discovering Africa as an economic geologist
With a doctoral degree in economic geology from Stellenbosch University in his pocket, Dr Stephan Dunn has already travelled far and wide on the African continent – first for his research on gold mineralisation processes in Tanzania, and...