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Why wait until your fourth year in computer science to try your hand at creating an Android app for smartphones? Thanks to a memorandum of understanding with mobile phone giant Vodacom programming enthusiasts (first years to senior students) can attend three free specialist hands-on workshops here on campus this year. The workshops offer a unique [...]

Biochemistry Forum: MSc Progress Lecture Student: Sunette Klopper Title: Cloning and functional charaterization of thiol disulfide interchange system proteins from Staphylococcus aureus Supervisor: Prof E Strauss Date: Thursday 18 April 2013 Time: 13:00 Venue: Biochemistry Seminar Room A111, JC Smuts Building, Stellenbosch Enquiries: Prof Amanda Swart on 021 8085864 or acswart@sun.ac.za

Learners from several high schools in Stellenbosch, Somerset West and surrounding areas have been selected to receive specialised training through the South African Mathematics Foundation’s Siyanqoba regional olympiad training programme, hosted by Stellenbosch University’s Department of Mathematical Sciences. Funded by the Department of Science and Technology, the aim of the programme is to reach learners [...]

You are hereby invited to attend the fourth public STIAS lecture of 2013. This presents an opportunity to academics, researchers and students at SU and in the Western Cape, as well as members of the public, to learn more about the work of STIAS fellows. On this occasion Prof Ian Hacking, Professeur honoraire, Chaire de philosophie [...]

The Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns (South African Academy for Science and Art) will honour a good number of academics from Stellenbosch University (SU). Two award ceremonies will take place – in Pretoria (27 June) and in Stellenbosch (13 September) respectively. Those honoured from SU are Prof Eugene Cloete, Vice-Rector: Learning and Teaching; Prof [...]

You are hereby invited to the third Stellenbosch Forum Lecture of the year. The Stellenbosch Forum lecture series was started in 1990 and provides regular opportunities to staff and students at SU, as well as interested people from the public, to learn more about the relevant, world-class research that is being done at SU. Researchers [...]

The Science Teaching and Learning Discussion Forum, led by Prof Ingrid Rewitzky, would like to invite you to the following seminar by Prof Judy Paterson from the Department of Mathematics at University of Auckland in New Zealand on Monday 22 April 2013. Venue: Den Bosch Time: 13:00 – 14:00 Date: 22 April 2013 Prof Paterson [...]

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 [...]

Student: Christopher van Niekerk Title: ’Investigating aspects of self-production in the context of artificial chemistries’ Supervisor: Prof J-HS Hofmeyr Date: Thursday 11 April 2013 Time: 13:00 Venue:  Biochemistry Seminar Room A111, JC Smuts Building, Stellenbosch Enquiries: Prof Amanda Swart – 021 808 5864 or acswart@sun.ac.za

Tackling issues like South Africa’s water problems and renewable energy head on, community journalists from the Western Cape will sit around the table with some of the foremost specialists in these fields to thrash out better ways of informing the public. The workshop, From science to society: reporting global change and sustainability issues for rural [...]

Identifying the species contained in a piece of droëwors or burger patty is not as simple as pulling it apart and examining it under a microscope. Stellenbosch University used established DNA sequencing technologies as one of the methods to unravel the extent of mislabelling in the South African meat market. DNA sequencing is the process [...]

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 [...]

The United States is now ready to take second generation biofuel technologies, such as cellulosic ethanol production, to the market on the same scale and level as the Brazilian model, Dr James McMillian from the US National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), announced Tuesday during the second day of the 20th International Symposium on Alcohol Fuels [...]

Biochemistry Forum Speaker: Prof Jacky Snoep Title: Losing carbs and calories at high temperature Date: Thursday 28 March 2013 Time: 13:00 Venue: Biochemistry Seminar Room A111, JC Smuts Building, Stellenbosch Enquiries: Prof Amanda Swart, 021 808 5864, e-mail: acswart@sun.ac.za