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Application phase from 1 September 2010.  Applications to be completed on www.mymaties.com Full-time study only. All RSA citizens and foreign students. All fields of study for honours, Masters and doctoral and also for the final year LLB. Not for diplomas or certificate courses. The academic cut-off mark for application is a weighted average of 75% or higher [...]

English Department Speaker: Leslie Swartz (SU) Title: Reflections on Life-Writing – Able-Bodied: Scenes from a Curious Life Date: Thursday 2 September 2010 Time: 12:00-13:00 Venue: “Yellow”/“Green” Molteno Room (579), English Department, 5th Floor, Arts & Social Sciences Building For further information email megsam@sun.ac.za All welcome!

Join us for a book talk with Karin Brynard on Wednesday 1 September 2010 from 13:00 to 14:00.  Karin Brynard, who is also a well known political journalist, will discuss her debut novel, Plaasmoord, which was published last year.  Earlier this year Karin won both a Via Afrika Literary Award and a M-Net Literary Awards [...]

Prof Anneke Hesseling of the Desmond Tutu TB Centre, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health will deliver her inaugural speech on 16 September. Title: Prevention of TB in Children: 100 Years later.Date: 16 September 2010 Time: 17:00 for 17:30 Venue: JN de Villiers Boardroom, Division of the Dean, Clinical Building, Faculty of Health Sciences RSVP [...]

Do you want to plough back some of your IT knowledge as part of an initiative to stimulate an interest in computer science and programming amongst South African learners? Then volunteer to be a tutor at the next Python Introductory course for high school learners, to be held at Stellenbosch University on the weekend of [...]

 Lydia Residence is home to the best mathematical brains on campus and its students are the first holders of the Gordon Trophy. This follows the results of the Mathematics 114 competition, which was presented for the first time this year by the Department of Mathematical Sciences: Mathematics Division to reward the residence or private ward [...]

Applications available from 1 September 2010 and to be completed  on www.maties.com Resource for extremely financially students. All fields of study. Full-time and part-time postgraduate students. Please note this bursary is only for South Africa citizens, students with refugee status and students with permanent residency. No application will be considered without a recommendation from the [...]

In early August the STIAS Fellows’ Programme reached an important milestone: a full complement of STIAS Fellows was resident at the Wallenberg Research Centre for the first time since the November 2007 inauguration of STIAS’ main research facility. During this period two group projects were hosted at STIAS: Genres of Critique, with project leaders Karin [...]

Friday Seminar Speaker: Prof Dirk Berg-Schlosser, Phillips University, Marburg, Germany Topic: Political Science between Vision and Reality – Lessons inTimes of Crisis Date: Friday, August 27  2010 Time: 11:00 – 12:30 Venue: Room 648, Arts & Social Sciences Building Contact: Ms Derica Lambrechts 021 808 2476 / derica@sun.ac.za

Speaker: Hazel Makowa (MSc student of Prof Marina Rautenbach) Title: The Good and Bad of DDT in malaria control Date:  Thursday 26 August 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 of Economics Speaker: Leigh Gardner (University of Cape Town) Topic: From Gladstone to a New Deal in British Africa, 1918-39: A New Era in Colonial Governance? Date: Monday 30 August 2010 Time: 12:00 – 13:00 Venue: CGW Schumann Building, Room 207B Contact person: Carina Smit (carina@sun.ac.za)

The Centre for Teaching and Learning hereby invites you to a lunch hour ‘padkos session’, as part of the Auxin project.  The Auxin project aims to create growth opportunities for SU lecturers. Speakers:   Prof Monique Zaahl and Mr Soon Nel  Do you sometimes wonder how effective your teaching is and to what extent it contributes to [...]

The African Institute for Mathematical Sciences hosted two international conferences during July. The one focused on the diversity of research fields within mathematics, while the other looked at the practical application of specific open source software that are relevant to the development of new materials. From 13 to 17 July, AIMS hosted an international conference [...]

Writing skills for effective minutes Stellenbosch University Language Centre 9 September 2010 This full-day workshop is aimed at administrative personnel who are responsible for keeping the minutes of meetings in their work environments. The workshop will consist of a theoretical session and a more practical session. In order to make the practical session as valuable [...]

History Department Presenter:  Prof Paul Maylam (Rhodes University)  Title:  South Africa’s forgotten centenary: watersheds, missed opportunities, and failed governance, 1910-2010 Date:  Tuesday, 31 August 2010  Venue:  Room 316, Wilcocks Building, Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch  Time:  13:00-14:00 Abstract:  In this paper the recent moment of South Africa’s centenary is taken as an opportunity to reflect upon the [...]