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With topics ranging from a new hypothesis to explain the formation of the earth’s crust, to a novel process for extracting pure gold from industrial waste streams, the Faculty of Science at Stellenbosch University has reason to be proud of a further 30 PhD-students graduating in March. This means a record number of 263 postgraduate [...]

Members of the Stellenbosch regional team can boast with twenty medals, three special awards and a few category prizes after their participation in the 32nd Eskom Expo for Young Scientists/International Science Fair in Boksburg. More than 750 learners from all over the country participated in this national competition which took place from 4 to 6 [...]

“Managed relocation”, also known as “assisted migration” or “assisted colonization”, is a controversial conservation strategy that involves the deliberate movement of species into new habitats to improve their chances of long-term survival. In a recent article in the August 2012 issue of the journal BioScience, lead author Prof Mark W. Schwartz of the University of [...]

Prof Susan Mazer from the University of California in Santa Barbara will present a seminar on “The evolution of mating system, life history, and physiological performance in Clarkia sister taxa: does selection for drought-avoidance drive the evolution of selfing?” at the Department of Botany & Zoology. DATE: 23 August TIME: 13:00 – 14:00 VENUE: Science Building, [...]

Two Matie students, Willem Venter and Rynhardt Kruger, made history by being the first blind students to receive the degree BSc Mathematical Sciences (focus computer science) from Stellenbosch University. They both passed Computer Science 324, one of their subjects, cum laude. Venter and Kruger were among 443 students from the Faculty of Science (video) who [...]

“Don’t make a decision that will create an environment that will dictate your behaviour too much – rather try to think about a behaviour that will help to dictate the environment.” That was the challenge towards sustainable living that dean Prof Eugene Cloete put out to alumni who attended the first ever networking event of [...]

Sean Robinson, a postgraduate student in inorganic chemistry, has been named as a recipient of a James Moir Medal from the South African Chemical Institute (SACI), after he came up tops last year as the best honours student in Chemistry at Stellenbosch University. SACI annually awards James Moir Medals to the best BSc Honours student [...]

A networking opportunity for alumni of the Faculty of Science at Stellenbosch University (SU) will take place on 28 September in Stellenbosch. Dean Prof Eugene Cloete will be the guest speaker. The cocktail event will take place at 18:00 for 18:30 in the open area in front of the JC Smuts Building (off Banghoek Road) [...]

Biochemistry Forum: MSc Progress Lecture Candidate: René Goosen (MSc student of Prof Erick Strauss) Title: Analysing metabolite levels in the CoA salvage pathway of Escherichia coli. Date: Thursday  04 August 2011 Time: 09:00 – 10:00 Venue: Biochemistry Seminar Room A111, JC Smuts Building, Stellenbosch Enquiries: Prof Erick Strauss, Tel: 021 8085866, e-mail: estrauss@sun.ac.za