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After two successful projects in the first semester of the year, Schola Cantorum Chamber Choir is looking forward to more projects for the second half of 2010. The projects which will follow the Afrikaans art song programme of February and the Endler concert of April promise to be even more exciting. On 2 September the [...]

Prof Julian Smith, Vice Rector: Community Interaction and Personnel at Stellenbosch University (SU), has recently been appointed as the Chairperson of the Cape Higher Education Consortium (CHEC). CHEC represents the four higher education institutions in the Western Cape: the University of Cape Town (UCT), the University of the Western Cape (UWC), Stellenbosch University and the [...]

Speaker: Renate Louw (MSc Student of Dr Donita Africander) Title: Comparing the effects of the synthetic progestins MPA and NET-A on interleukin 12 and interleukin 10 in the human ectocervical environment Date:  Thursday 27 May 2010 Time: 13:00 Venue:  Biochemistry Seminar Room A111, JC Smuts Building, Stellenbosch Enquiries:  Prof Erick Strauss Tel: 021 808 5866 E-mail: estrauss@sun.ac.za

Department Sociology and Social Anthropology Speaker: Professor Sandra Liebenberg,(Prof Liebenberg holds the HF Oppenheimer Chair in Human Rights Law in theFaculty of Law  at Stellenbosch University) Title: The constraints of South African legal culture in developing a transformative jurisprudence on social rights Date:  Thursday May 27  2010 Time: 13:00 Venue: Arts building, fourth floor, Room 401   Contact person: Cyrildine Fortuin, [...]

The University of Stellenbosch Business School (USB) joined the ranks of the ‘live-streaming’ family when their Africa Day (Tuesday 25 May) celebrations was broadcast  all over the world. It was the first time that live-streaming was used to broadcast an event held at the USB. Usually the event was recorded on the day, sent through the [...]

“We want to change the world and we want your help.” This was the message to senior alumni who attended a lunch at the Bay Hotel in Camps Bay on Wednesday. There they got a taste of Stellenbosch University’s (SU) vision to build hope and to be a University of excellence. Prof Nico Koopman, Dean [...]

The inaugural lectures of Profs le Fras Mouton and Hannes van Wyk will be held on Tuesday 8 June 2010. Prof Mouton’s lecture is titled When lizards live in communes while Prof Van Wyk will speak about Gender benders in South African waters: how will we know? Date: Tuesday 8 June 2010 Time: 17:30 Venue: [...]

The South African Research Chair Initiative (SARChI) in Postharvest Technology at the University of Stellenbosch focuses on the development of cross-cutting innovative technologies for cool chain produce handling, and measurement and control of postharvest quality. The Postharvest Technology Chair is seeking suitable applications from candidates who have obtained their PhD within the last five years [...]

In/Out Board (with space for 20 names) for sale at the Division for Research Development. Price: R500. Contact Jolene at jolene@sun.ac.za  for more details.

From 24 – 27 October 2010 the NRF will be hosting an international conference on “Data Management for Science & Technology” at Spier. The NRF would like to employ 10 postgraduate students from Stellenbosch University to assist during the conference. Assistants must be able to work full days from 22 – 27 October, and responsibilities [...]

Department Sociology and Social Anthropology Speaker: Anton Hough (MA Student, Department Sociology and Social Anthropology)  Title: Rooting out Poverty? A multi-site case study of beneficiary dependency on the working for Water Programme Date and Time:  Thursday May 20 2010, 13:00 Venue: Arts building, fourth floor, Room 403  Contact person: Cyrildine Fortuin, 021 808-2417 or cfortuin@sun.ac.za

Date:  Thursday 20 May 2010 Time:  13:00 Venue:  Biochemistry Seminar Room A111, JC Smuts Building, Stellenbosch Speaker:  Prof Dirk U Bellstedt Title:  Feedback on the AETFAT (All Africa Botany) meeting held in Antananarivo, Madagascar and a plant collecting trip in southern and central Modagascar.  Prof Bellstedt will give a brief feedback on the AETFAT meeting [...]

Prof Aslam Fataar of the Department of Education Policy Studies will deliver his inaugural lecture on Tuesday 1 June 2010. The lecture is titled A Pedagogy of Hope in the ‘Capacity to Aspire’: Youth Subjectivity across the Post-Apartheid Schooling Landscape. Date: Tuesday 1 June 2010 Time: 17:30 Venue: Jannasch Hall, Konservatorium, Victoria Street, Stellenbosch Refreshments [...]

Paul Hanmer, a native son of the Mother city now resident in Johannesburg, will return to the Cape with a performance of his works for solo piano in the Endler Concert Series on 5 June at 20:00. The Endler Hall, situated on the corner of Neethling and Victoria Street,  in Stellenbosch is considered by many [...]

Dr Bonginkosi Chiliza has received a top international accolade with his inclusion in the Top 10 Rafaelsen Young Investigators Awards for 2010, recently announced by the Collegium Internationale Neuro-Psychopharmacologicum.  Dr Chiliza is a senior psychiatrist and senior lecturer at the Department of Psychiatry in Faculty of Health Sciences at Stellenbosch University (SU).  His research interests [...]