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Shining the spotlight on our Matie volunteers
It’s International Volunteer Day and with over 600 Matie volunteers making a remarkable impact, we’d like to shine the spotlight on a few volunteers whose unwavering commitment and passion strengthen our

SU alumni dream team takes first place in Cambridge Misinformation Hackathon
A web-based plugin which addresses misleading numerical claims in online media reports earned three Stellenbosch University alumni first place in the Cambridge Misinformation Hackathon recently. Gregor Feierabend, Josephine Rey and Luca Powell, who are all

Competitive gaming gaining pace at Stellenbosch University, home to the USSA e-Sport 2023 tournament champions
More than 100 million people play online games each day, and more people currently play esports than all the other sports combined. So says Professor Mark Campbell, a senior lecturer

SU researchers excel at first African Biotrade Festival
Stellenbosch University (SU) researchers made their mark at the recent inaugural African Biotrade Festival in Johannesburg. Dr Rhoda Malgas and Kyle le Roux were two of the three presenters awarded an all-expenses-paid trip

Eco-friendly shark barrier technology from South Africa installed in the Bahamas
The eco-friendly SharkSafe BarrierTM technology, developed by marine biologists at Stellenbosch University (SU) and their collaborators, and manufactured in the Western Cape, South Africa, has now been installed at a private

My Brew Coffee Roastery sponsors student’s field trip to Mongolia
Dr Ryan T. Tucker and postgraduate student Jesse van Niekerk recently returned from an eight-week-long field trip to the East Gobi Basin in Mongolia to collect data on the worldwide

DTTC-led project finds pioneering treatment to prevent multidrug-resistant TB in children and adults
A landmark clinical trial reported last week at the Union Conference on Lung Health in Paris meeting showed that an oral antibiotic taken for six months once-daily substantially reduced the

Maties Sport takes the lead in SU’s rebranding journey
Being excellent is second nature for the people at Maties Sport. That’s why the Stellenbosch University (SU) rebranding at this entity has been so successful, says Kimara Singh, media and

New group of Dell Young Leaders start their journey
Not even the rain could dampen the spirit of hope and exuberance among the 213 Stellenbosch University first-year students welcomed into the Dell Young Leaders programme at a recent launch