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Building community through multilingualism at SU Teaching-Learning-Assessment Day
SU launches IMPACT Open-Air Laboratory
The Hans Merensky Chair in Advanced Modelling of Eucalypt Growth and Wood Formation (or EucXylo) at Stellenbosch University (SU) officially opened its IMPACT...
Global Hunger Crisis in Focus at SU’s 2024 International Social Justice Conference and Social Justice Summit
As the world confronts the devastating reality that nearly 2.4 billion people – almost 30% of the global population – lack adequate access to food,1 Stellenbosc...
SU Professor appointed director of global vaccine research network
Professor Samantha Sampson, a renowned tuberculosis (TB) researcher from Stellenbosch University (SU), has been appointed as the Director of the VALIDATE...
Symposium urges shift from charity to constitutional right in tackling hunger crisis
While millions of South Africans are going hungry, tonnes of food are wasted annually. The country needs to move beyond the notion of “charity", to the...
Adaptive capacity of plants in drylands and deserts is “globally exceptional”
What do we know about how plants adapted to extreme climates in the desert regions of our world? And how are these plants going to respond to emerging threats...
Podcast: ‘We have to grapple to learn’: Talking Transformative Assessment with Dr Sharon Malan
Dr Sharon Malan, programme lead of the EMS Faculty's Extended Curriculum Programme, was recently interviewed on the talks@stellenboschuni podcast where she...