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Do you want a picture of your brain? We need 1st degree family members of person’s with Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) for a research study at the MRC Unit on Anxiety and Stress Disorders, Stellenbosch University (SU). The following volunteers are needed: • Right handed, healthy, 1st degree family members of persons with OCD Participation entails [...]

Take a look at SUSPI’s (Stellenbosch University Sport Performance Institute) exciting list of short courses and workshops! Cardio Ball workshop: 1 Aug 9:00 – 13:00; R400 (students) R450 (public) Sport Nutrition: Based on the success of our first Sport Nutrition workshop, we invite you to join us for a series of workshops DATES AND TOPICS: [...]

Department Political Science Speaker: Ambassador Dieter Haller, German Embassy, Pretoria Topic: German Foreign Policy PrioritiesDate: Friday 31 July  2009     Time: 11:00 – 12:30 Venue: Room 648, Arts and Social Sciences Building Contact: Ms Derica Lambrechts Tel: 021 808 2476 E-mail: derica@sun.ac.za

Statistics Department Speaker: Olapade Kehinde ( Mathematics Department, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria) Topic: On generalizations and characterizations of the logistic distribution and their applications Date: Friday, 31 July 2009 Time: 13:00 tot 14:00 Venue: Statistics building, (c/o Victoria and Bosman Street, Stellenbosch), Room 2021 Enquiries: Danie Uys, Tel: 021 808 3879, e-pos: dwu@sun.ac.za  Abstract: In this seminar, [...]

English Department Speaker: Dawid de Villiers (SU) Title: After the Revolution: Jerusalema and the Entrepreneurial Present Date: Thursday 30 July 2009 Time: 12:00-13:00 Venue: “Green” Molteno Room (579), English Department, 5th Floor, Arts & Social Sciences Building For further information email megsam@sun.ac.za All welcome!

Dr Iain Stephens will give a walkabout on Festival Threads, Chinese Ethnic Minority Costume from the Stephens Collection on Wednesday 19 August 2009  at the Sasol Art Museum. Venue: 52 Ryneveld Street Time: 12:45 Tel: 021 808 3691/95 R10 p.p. a walkabout

History Department Speaker: Bob Edgar (Howard University) Topic:  Tito Mboweni – Towards a biographyDate: Friday 31 July 2009   Time:  13:00-14:00 Venue: Wilcocks Building room 316 ALL WELCOME

Apply now for a Microsoft Powerpoint 2007 Basic course on Tygerberg campus on 3 August 2009. See: http://infoteg.sun.ac.za/webnuut/OPL_Inskryf_E.htm for more detail.

The Morti Malherbe Memorial Lecture this year will be presented by Judge JHM Traverso (The Honourable Acting Judge President of the Western Cape High Court).Topic: Gender Equality from a Legal Perspective: Achievements & Challenges Date: Wednesday, 5 August 2009 Time: 18h30 Venue: JC de Wet Hall, Old Main Building (Faculty of Law)

The Centre for Renewable and Sustainable Energy Studies presents a Forum on Sustainable Cities on 14 August 2009.Prof Mark Swilling of the School of Public Management and Planning will introduce the topic referring to some recent developments in South Africa and abroad after which a general discussion on the topic will be held. When: Friday, [...]

Two cases of the H1N1 virus (novel) were reported to Campus Health Services (CHS) over the weekend. One case was confirmed in Helderberg, and another in Heemstede. In both cases the students are being treated at their homes. It is suspected that a third student, who lives in private accommodation, has also contracted the virus. [...]

The popular Open Day of Stellenbosch University (SU), where prospective students can get information on study programmes, admission requirements, accommodation and finances, is back this year on Wednesday 5 August 2009 – be sure not to miss it! Prospective students and their parents can pop in at the more than 90 stalls in the University’s [...]

Speaker: Prof Jerzy Koch (Department of Dutch and South African Studies, School of English, Adam Mickiewicz University) Date: Wednesday 29th July 2009 Time: 13:00-14:00 Place: Arts-building, Room  657

The interest in the first public debate of the newly formed Centre for Comic, Illustrative and Book Arts (CCIBA), held on Thursday night at the Stellenbosch University’s Visual Arts Department, was “overwhelming” and the evening was “an exceptional success”. This was the response of Mr Andy Mason, Head of Comic Arts at CCIBA, to the [...]

Stellenbosch University’s Faculty of Health Sciences is amongst various Faculties and Universities from five countries in Africa – South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana and Malawi – to participate, under the leadership of Prof Jean Nachega, the Director of the Centre for Infectious Diseases, in an international consortia under a £5 million over 5 years intitiative funded [...]