The Maties Soccer First Team has been appointed as TB Ambassadors in the Socer World Cup Year for specifically Kayamandi but also in the Western Cape at a Tuberculosis (TB) awareness event held at the Kayamandi High School in Kayamandi in Stellenbosch on Monday (15 March). The Desmond Tutu TB Centre, situated in the Faculty [...]

The Music Deparment and Konservatorium of Stellenbosch University will be hosting its 3rd Stellenbosch International Piano Symposium from 20 to 24 March 2010. This unique experience brings together the best of local and international pianists for five days of master classes, lectures and concerts.
International artists Vadim Monastyrsky from the Tel Aviv University, Israel, and Lori Sims [...]

International academics from the University of Cambridge, the University of British Columbia and the Max Planck Institute are among the seven plenary speakers taking part in the 34th South African Symposium for Numerical and Applied Mathematics (SANUM), which is being held from 15 to 17 March at Stellenbosch University.

The 2002 Nobel Prize winner for Physiology/Medicine and recipient of an honorary doctorate from Stellenbosch University at its March Graduation Ceremony, Prof Sydney Brenner, presented a STIAS Lecture titled “Reading the Human Genome: the reconstruction of the past” on Thursdag 11 March 2010. Prof Brenner is a visiting fellow at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS) since [...]

The 2010 Winelands Conference on Public and Development Management, organised by the School of Public Management and Planning at Stellenbosch University (SU) in partnership with the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in South Africa, will be held from 15 to 19 March 2010. The theme of the main conference, held from 17 – [...]

Learners from nine Cape and Boland schools received their first taste of computer programming when they attended an introductory three-day course at Stellenbosch University recently – without some of their lecturers being present in person!

The students who were honoured at the annual First Year Academy Prestige evening for their exceptional academic achievements have a responsibility to use their talents and knowledge to further the academic image of the university and also to contribute to the development of South Africa.
This was the message of Prof Russel Botman, Rector and Vice-Chancellor [...]

Stellenbosch University biofuels experts are helping to organise an African bioenergy sector meeting in Stellenbosch from 17-19 March where stakeholders and leading thinkers on the continent will have to decide whether they agree with the 20% targets for sustainable bioenergy production set by their European counterparts in the Global Sustainable Bioenergy Project.