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A demonstration in the Immersive Technology Lab at SU's Library
Image by: Stefan Els

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SU opens Africa’s first immersive technology lab

Imagine standing beneath a star-filled night sky rendered in real time or watching a lecturer guide students through the inner workings of the human brain at...
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Click here to put Eskom’s loadshedding schedule directly into your electronic calendar

Click here to put Eskom’s loadshedding schedule directly into your electronic calendar

A super frustrated computer science student at Stellenbosch University developed an open source software project tracking the latest loadshedding timetables...

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Just keep swimming and you will get there.

Just keep swimming and you will get there.

“If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you are always in the same...

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Educating girls and providing access to women remains the tried and tested method to true liberation

Educating girls and providing access to women remains the tried and tested method to true liberation

​This women’s month, we remember the gallant women of 1956 who marched to Pretoria to demand change. Now, as we continue to assess the gains made by women in...

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More evidence for link between blood clotting and severity of Covid-19

More evidence for link between blood clotting and severity of Covid-19

New research shows that the Omicron-virus and some of its variants cause significantly lower levels of blood clotting, thereby providing further evidence for...

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“I didn’t know one can do so many things with a BSc-degree!”

“I didn’t know one can do so many things with a BSc-degree!”

While it is not always clear where a BSc-degree in the biological, mathematical or physical sciences can take you while you are still studying, it does open...

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Prof Ben Loos wants to help improve treatment of Alzheimer’s disease, cancer

Prof Ben Loos wants to help improve treatment of Alzheimer’s disease, cancer

Prof Ben Loos from the Department of Physiological Sciences at Stellenbosch University recently delivered his professorial inaugural lecture, titled 'On the...

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