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South African Mathematical Sciences Research Landscape in 2024 by Prof Loyiso Nongxa (WITS)
Monday 12 June 2023, 16h00, Neelsie Cinema In this presentation we speculate on how the research landscape in South Africa might look like in 20 years time. We examine this through the lens of the profile of early career mathematical...
SU quantum expert receives Italian knighthood
One of Stellenbosch University’s (SU) top academics received an extraordinary honour over the weekend when Italy’s ambassador to South Africa bestowed the Order of the Star of Italy on Prof Francesco Petruccione from the School for Data...
Adding essential oils to diet of dairy calves could keep E. coli in check
Monensin, an antimicrobial substance that can be used to kill or prevent the growth of microorganisms, is frequently added to the diet of dairy calves to prevent intestinal infection caused by parasites, and to improve calf growth. The...
Africa can finance its own development and it is already doing so
Africa can finance its own development and it is already doing it. Unfortunately, too many policymakers in Africa have a mindset of managing poverty, rather than of managing development. Its food system paradox isn't grounded in a...
CIRCoRe workstream insights: Prof Ronelle Carolissen
Stellenbosch University (SU) has rolled out the structures that will focus on the recommendations of the Khampepe Commission. Our series of interviews with key SU staff steering the Committee for the Institutional Response to the...
SU sedimentologist part of team to discover new species of dinosaur in Utah
Dr Ryan Tucker from Stellenbosch University's Department of Earth Sciences was part of an international team that discovered a new plant-eating dinosaur that lived in what is now Utah during the mid-Cretaceous, approximately 99 million...
SU led international symposium champions ‘Life after TB’
Stellenbosch University (SU) recently hosted the second International Post-TB Symposium where leading experts in the field of TB treatment and research converged to advance the issue of post-TB lung health. “Emerging accumulating evidence...
Academic Lis Lange joins SU as a special advisor on learning and teaching
Accomplished academic Prof Lis Lange has been appointed at Stellenbosch University (SU) as Special Advisor to the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (DVC): Learning and Teaching, Prof Deresh Ramjugernath. The position has been created to drive...
Conference offers a glimpse into humanitarian disaster preparedness
When Professor Kathryn Chu met Gift of the Givers founder, Dr Imtiaz Sooliman, six months ago, she was so inspired by this non-governmental organisation's (NGO) work that she asked them to collaborate in a conference on humanitarian...
Eminent researchers to fly SU flag at SA’s ‘Science Oscars’
Stellenbosch University (SU) will be well represented at the 2022/2023 National Science and Technology Forum (NSTF)/South32 Awards with no fewer than seven of the institution's eminent researchers set to compete as finalists for South...