A chancellor's award and more than 600 BSc degrees were on the menu at the Faculty of Science's graduation ceremony that took place on Monday 4 December 2017. Prof Len Barbour, a world-leader in solid-state supramolecular chemistry and one...

A total of 20 postgraduate students at Stellenbosch University will get a financial injection in the form of partial bursaries towards their honours studies in 2019. This is thanks to a R600 000 donation from the HCI Foundation, the...

Any efforts to eradicate poverty and guarantee the economic, social and cultural rights of people globally will be unsuccessful if we don't take the threats of environmental degradation and climate change seriously. This is the view of...

When occupational physicians have to make difficult calls related to health and safety in the workplace, they shouldn't be loyal to either workers or employers because it could influence their behaviour or cloud their judgments. “Because...

Stellenbosch University (SU) concluded its last graduation week of the year on 13 December 2019 with a Chancellor's Luncheon, held at its Goldfields Residence for the first time. “It is hugely symbolic that this event – a highlight on the...

South Africa needs improved environmental, water and mining legislation to prevent our freshwater resources from being polluted by mining activities, particularly acid mine drainage. To achieve this, our lawmakers should take a leaf out of...

​​The manner in which the media reports on climate change influences people's perceptions, attitudes and support for climate policy. Media(ted) climate change communication, i.e. the presentation of climate change as a policy and people's...

​​Four to six times a day. That's how often Dr Yolandi Swart from Pretoria must inject herself with insulin because her life depends on it. Having been diagnosed with type 1 diabetes (when the pancreas produces little or no insulin) when...

​Stellenbosch University's startup company Gradlinc — an innovative graduate career development platform — signed up more than 4 200 students and 250 companies in just over one year. This innovative platform that connects employers...

To conclude a successful 2016, students and staff from the Institute for Plant Biotechnology (IPB) came together on Friday, 2 December, to give feedback on research progress and then to relax at the year-end function. Biannually, all...