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Here is some feedback from the the NEPAD Bioenergy Symposium recently attended by Prof Emile van Zyl. Leading experts and investors in Bioenergy, as well as public and private sector representatives have been meeting in Johannesburg to explore how the Bioenergy industry can use more of Africa’s own national resources to deliver improved energy and food security.
One exciting […]
Wound dressing ‘the first of its kind’
The wound dressing incorporates broad-spectrum antimicrobial peptides into nanofibers, to fight infections that are especially common in burn wound patients.
http://goo.gl/dkHg0
Researchers from Stellenbosch University (SU) working on issues of water, sustainability and housing recently hosted a delegation of Finnish parliamentarians and briefed them about related projects with which Matie academics and students are involved. Finnish visitors become waterwise
Visit the Stellenbosch University Water Institute below for more about this multi-disciplinary research enterprise:
The Department of Microbiology at Stellenbosch University will celebrate its 50th year of existence in November with a reunion for alumni and former staff members.
The Department of Microbiology was established in 1961 as an academic unit of the Faculty of Agriculture, and became a department within the Faculty of Science in 1997. Its researchers […]
A world leader on the use of microorganisms in biomining activities, Stellenbosch University (SU) microbiologist Prof Doug Rawlings, is to receive the 2011 Havenga Prize for Life Sciences from the Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns (South African Academy for Science and Art).
The Havenga Prize is an annual prestige award given for original research in […]
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