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A joyful celebration filled with blessings for SU’s 13th Rector and Vice-Chancellor
Adventurous doctor with a heart of gold gets 7 distinctions
A week before her November exams at Stellenbosch University (SU) commenced, a final year medical student did something extraordinary. Sarah Camp (25) cycled...
Popular journalist obtains master’s degree for research on payment model for media
Award-winning journalist Carryn-Ann Nel has overcome many obstacles in her long career, but the most difficult challenge she set for herself was to obtain a...
Rising basketball star graduates after giving his studies the full-court press
Overcoming challenges on the basketball court has helped rising sports star Lutho Skweyiya score a slam dunk in the academic arena as well.
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SU graduate swaps running for rugby, and represents SA within the first year
Elitha Sylvester, from Bellville in Cape Town who graduated from Stellenbosch University (SU) on Friday 15 December with a Bachelor of Education, does not...
SA’s first Global Minds PhD scholar graduates
Lynn Hendricks, lecturer in the Division of Health Systems and Public Health at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences since 2022, has had quite the year...
Keeping our finger on the pulse of the renewed MBChB
In 2022, Stellenbosch University (SU) introduced a renewed MBChB curriculum (see figure 1), as part of an institution-wide programme renewal process which is...