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Media release
Sport sustained hope for prisoners on Robben Island, PhD study shows
Institutional news
SU features among leading higher education institutions globally in several subject areas
As the new academic year approaches, it’s welcome news that Stellenbosch University (SU) continues to feature among the leading higher education institutions...
Awards and milestones
Desmond Tutu TB Centre honoured with international public health award
The Desmond Tutu TB Centre (DTTC) was recently awarded the 2025 Karel Styblo Union Public Health Prize, providing much-needed encouragement for the Centre to...
Awards and milestones
Two FMHS professors join academy of outstanding scientists
Two senior academics from Stellenbosch University’s Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (FMHS) were among the 45 leading scholars inducted as Members of the...
Opinion and features
Prof Nina Schumann is finding new notes in a world reimagined by Parkinson’s
When accomplished pianist Prof Nina Schumann went for her first mammogram, she expected a routine check-up. Instead, she left with a life-changing diagnosis...
Natural and mathematical sciences
A new era for isotope science as SU celebrates installation of advanced instrument
A buzz of anticipation filled the Chamber of Mines Building at Stellenbosch University’s (SU) Department of Earth Sciences as students, academics and industry...
Media release
First-generation SU medical graduate proves that dreams rooted in small places can travel far
Roossenekal, a 2,5 km² dot on the Limpopo map, is the kind of town “where the horizon feels close and the ceiling of dreams even closer”. But for Reuben Lefa...