Stellenbosch University

​​​​​Stellenbosch University (SU) has embarked on an ambitious journey to net zero in 2050 with the launch of the institution's first Environmental Sustainability Plan (SUESP). Prof Wim de Villiers, SU Rector and Vice-Chancellor, said…

The Strategy and Innovation focal area in the Department of Business Management had the honour of hosting Prof Peter O van der Meer from 15 to 23 September 2022. Prof van der Meer is a lecturer at Utrecht University’s School of Economics…

OPTIMUS students benefitted from the advice and experience of prominent industry leaders during a recent event organised by the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences. At the event, the second-year OPTIMUS students received their…

Author: Corporate Communication & Marketing / Korporatiewe Kommunikasie & Bemarking Published: 06/10/2022What is the point of bringing extinct species like the quagga back to life?This was one of the questions Prof Sandra Swart…

The Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences recently hosted educational psychologist Liezl Klopper from the Centre for Student Counselling and Development (CSCD), who presented four support sessions to assist students with their…

Activists, students, and staff participated and attended a hybrid panel discussion focusing on the theme, Confronting the barriers to inclusion for the LGBTQIA+ community, held at Stellenbosch University's Tygerberg campus recently. The…

The article “A basic income grant for South Africa: more money in poor people's pockets, but at a heavy cost​" has been published on 4 October 2022 in The Conversation. It was written by Hylton Hollander, Daan Steenkamp and Roy Havemann…

Stellenbosch University's (SU) Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (FMHS) recently hosted a Heritage Day engagement session to consider the visual redress process regarding the granite rock in front of the Clinical Building with the…

South Africa has been slow on the uptake of technology to assist in medical care – all to the peril of the patient.This is according to Dr Nadiya Ahmed, a general surgeon and intensivist at Tygerberg Hospital (TBH) and Stellenbosch…

The FarmImpact project (supported as part of the CLIENT II Programme by the German BMBF) combines a larger group of experts of different scientific backgrounds and introduces modern technology such as numerical modelling of near-ground…