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Communication from Council (meeting of 26 November 2018)
The Council of Stellenbosch University (SU) held its fourth and final scheduled meeting of the year on Monday 26 November 2018. We can look back on a historic year marked by two very special milestones: the commemoration of SU's...
Medical students to cycle 902 km to ‘help our friends become doctors’
A team of Stellenbosch University (SU) medical students will embark on an ambitious 902km cycle tour from Vioolsdrift at the Namibian border to Cape Agulhas, the most Southern tip of Africa, from 1 to 8 December 2018. Tuesday, 27 November...
Study explores bitter taste of honeybush tea
What makes some cups of honeybush tea taste bitter and others not? This is the topic explored by Lara Alexander as part of her PhD study. Alexander is a student in Stellenbosch University’s Faculty of AgriSciences in the...
African University Day celebrates young people
Youth should be placed at the centre of Africa's development. This was the key message as Stellenbosch University (SU) celebrated African University Day 2018. Every year, higher education institutions on the continent mark this day on...
SU represented at discussion with President
At a round-table discussion with President Cyril Ramaphosa in Sandton last week (Thursday, 22 November 2018), Dr Nic Spaull, Senior Researcher in the Department of Economics at Stellenbosch University, spoke about the importance of...
MEDIA STATEMENT: Reconciliation Conference at Stellenbosch University
Statement by Stellenbosch University 30 November 2018 An objective of the Recognition, Reparation, Reconciliation: The Light and Shadow of Historical Trauma conference at Stellenbosch University is to bring together scholars and...
Babies born to mums with HIV face higher risks even though they’re HIV negative
This article was originally published on The Conversation . Read the full article here . One of the most remarkable public health successes of the last decade in southern Africa has been the reduction in the number of babies born with HIV...
Fear helped avert Day Zero
Threats about Day Zero when taps would run dry, had a far greater impact on Capetonians' water usage than water restrictions. This is one of the major findings of a study by researchers from Stellenbosch University (SU) and the University...
Visit cements long-standing Leipzig-SU collaboration
A group of academics and support staff members of the University of Leipzig in Germany recently visited Stellenbosch University (SU) to build on existing partnerships in a number of academic fields of study. Coupled with this, the purpose...
SOTL Conference 2018
Dr Zibonele Zimba and Mrs Priscalia Khosa with Prof Arnold Schoonwinkel (Vice Rector for Teaching and Learning) at the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Conference (SOTL). They were awarded a certificate of merit for their abstract on a...