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All things AI²
As the leaves in Vicotria Street changes colour and campus quiets down after a busy semester, the AI-scene is buzzing with the latest developments. We have three exciting webinars in the AI² Discussion Series lined up for this winter as...
WOW celebrates 20 years – Stellenbosch University’s social empowerment initiative marks two decades
A rich vocabulary filled with words with meaning will open new worlds for a child, says Fiona van Kerwel, project manager of Words Open Worlds (WOW), a social empowerment initiative of the Toyota SU Wordfest (Woordfees). WOW celebrates...
SU to coordinate regional Centre of Vocational Excellence in Water
The Stellenbosch University Water Institute will coordinate the establishment of the first regional Centre of Vocational Excellence (CoVE) in Water – making it the first initiative of the Platform of Vocational Excellence in Water...
Jean Durand receives faculty's highest accolade
Jean Durand set in motion a family tradition when he was recently announced the 2022 winner of the coveted CGW Schumann Medal for best postgraduate student in the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences. The Department of Statistics and...
CIRCoRe workstream insights: Prof Kopano Ratele
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...
Youth Day: Education, unemployment under the spotlight
Youth Day was celebrated on Friday 16 June. In opinion pieces for the media, Prof Nicola Smit (Dean of the Faculty of Law), and Emma Swart and William Sezoe (Students' Representative Council) focused on the issues of education and youth...
SU multidisciplinary student team develops eco-friendly prototype wind reader
A multidisciplinary team comprising of four postgraduate students from Stellenbosch University (SU) has developed a prototype eco-friendly wind reader which saw them winning R10 000 in the 2023 SDG (Sustainable Development Goals)...
Recruiting a new cohort of future Maties
Our team of Stellenbosch University (SU) student recruiters serving the high-school market has hit the ground running since the start of the school year on 18 January 2023. The team of four has already conducted a significant number of...
Newcomer Maties make a big impact
On Thursday (9 February 2022) morning the hall of Academia residence at Stellenbosch University (SU) was turned into a very efficient sandwich-making factory. Under the watchful eye of Academia Primaria Katey Wijnburg, two teams of students...
PhD study can help the visually impaired read mathematical equations, diagrams
Blind or visually impaired persons access documents by using a screen reader that reads a text out loud or displays it on a special hardware braille device. However, a large body of technical and scientific material remains inaccessible to...