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You have an ideal opportunity to find out more about the interesting work of engineers at the Faculty of Engineering’s Open Day on Saturday 20 April 2013. There will be lots of exciting exhibits and demonstrations that will show how engineers use science and technology to make the world a better place for all. Pop [...]

Innovation Mavericks is an initiative proudly brought to you by InnovUS, the innovation company of Stellenbosch University In celebration of World Creativity and Innovation Week (15–22 April), InnovUS will be focusing on the impact that good ideas can have on the day-to-day lives of everyday people. To this end, a Mavericks event will be held at the [...]

The special and important relationship between students and lecturers was celebrated on Tuesday at the Rector’s Dinner for Top-Performing Students, hosted by the First-year Academy (FYA) of Stellenbosch University (SU), during which the 30 top performing first-years of 2012 were honoured. Special recognition was also given to the lecturers who these students felt had made the greatest contribution to [...]

The Science Teaching and Learning Discussion Forum, led by Prof Ingrid Rewitzky, would like to invite you to a seminar by Prof Jenni Case from UCT this coming Monday 15 April 2013. Venue: Den Bosch, opposite Skuilhoek (41 Victoria Street) Time: 13:00 – 14:00 Light snacks will be provided. Please inform Hanelie Adendorff (hja@sun.ac.za) by [...]

As an official bid partner, Stellenbosch will in 2014 be part of the Cape Town World Design Capital (WDC) celebrations, and staff and students of the University have been invited to submit proposals for inclusion in the year-long programme. Successful projects will receive official WDC 2014 recognition, endorsement and promotion. “This is your opportunity to [...]

This is the sixth in a series of articles about sustainability and specifically sustainability within the University. What are our staff members contributing in their fields of expertise; in which sustainable projects and initiatives are they involved and what contribution do they make to this important issue in the rest of South Africa? Article 1: [...]

This is the fifth in a series of articles about sustainability and specifically sustainability within the University. What are our staff members contributing in their fields of expertise; in which sustainable projects and initiatives are they involved and what contribution do they make to this important issue in the rest of South Africa? Article 1: [...]

There is some serious head-scratching ahead for the South African energy sector. That much was clear when a panel of South African and international experts (video), after three days of brushing up on the technicalities of and technologies available to the sector, got down to the brass tacks of policy and strategy. The around 40 [...]

The MIH Media Lab’s second Media Lab Monday event of 2013 is taking place on Monday, 4 March and Renier Kriel will be the speaker. Renier, who completed his Bachelors Degree in Industrial Engineering at the University of Stellenbosch in 2007, is a dynamic and charismatic personality in the mobile application technology space. Renier co-founded [...]

Prof Harald zur Hausen, the German virologist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine of Physiology in 2008 for his discovery of papilloma viruses that play a role in cervical cancers, will be a STIAS fellow during March 2013. He will be working on a project that he summarises as follows: “During the past [...]

The dwindling competitiveness of the South African manufacturing sector is to blame for the dramatic decline in the country’s exports to the EU, not Europe’s current economic woes, a senior foreign diplomat said in Stellenbosch Wednesday morning, 30 January 2013. Mr Andreas Künne, head of the German Embassy’s department for economic and global issues, was [...]

“The Challenges of Green Manufacturing” will be the theme of discussions when leading researchers and industry representatives from around the world gather in Stellenbosch this week (30 January to 1 February 2013) for the 5th International Conference on Competitive Manufacturing (COMA ’13). “A sustainable environment has become the imperative of the millennium. In the context [...]

Not in the mood to stand in long queues in the sun to register at Stellenbosch University? Then you have the option to make use of the self-registration option on www.mymaties.com. First-years, undergraduate students in their second year and higher and postgraduate students who were registered as a student at SU last year are encouraged [...]

The recipients of honorary degrees at the December 2012 Graduation Ceremonies of Stellenbosch University (SU) all gave recognition to research and academic excellence at the University. The recipients, physicist Dr Bernie Fanaroff, governor of the Reserve Bank, Ms Gill Marcus, and world-renowned heart researcher, Prof Lionel Opie, spoke at a luncheon held on Friday afternoon [...]

Stellenbosch University students walked away with half of the prizes ‒ including the awards for the best overall presentations by MSc and PhD students ‒ at the prize-giving ceremony of the 2012 Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Africa Postgraduate Bursary Conference. Marisa Geyer, a MSc student in physics, received the prize for the best overall presentation [...]