| New podcast highlights SU research | http://www.sun.ac.za/english/Lists/news/DispForm.aspx?ID=7472 | | New podcast highlights SU research | Corporate Communication/Korporatiewe Kommunikasie [Rozanne Engel] | Stellenbosch University (SU) has recently launched a new podcast channel highlighting current topics and innovative research done at the University. |
| Disinfection tunnels for Covid-19 have negligible benefit and are potentially dangerous | http://www.sun.ac.za/english/Lists/news/DispForm.aspx?ID=7474 | | Disinfection tunnels for Covid-19 have negligible benefit and are potentially dangerous | Shaheen Mehtar, Shabir A Madhi & Marc Mendelson | Having communicated with a number of companies who are marketing and selling these, we have yet to get a straight answer regarding what basis they market these products on and what evidence exists on its effectiveness in preventing Covid-19 infection. |
| ‘Everyone can make a difference’ | http://www.sun.ac.za/english/Lists/news/DispForm.aspx?ID=7473 | | ‘Everyone can make a difference’ | Development & Alumni / Ontwikkeling & Alumni | As a young boy growing up in the Eastern Cape, Sven Weidner always wanted to lend a helping hand to those in need. He believes that no effort is too small to make a change. |
| 'Six months of COVID-19, and the challenges that still lie ahead' | http://www.sun.ac.za/english/Lists/news/DispForm.aspx?ID=7475 | | 'Six months of COVID-19, and the challenges that still lie ahead' | Wim de Villiers | Message of the Rector to members of the SU community: "Our race has only just begun" |
| Maties expert assists COVID-19 task force to make sports events safer | http://www.sun.ac.za/english/Lists/news/DispForm.aspx?ID=7469 | | Maties expert assists COVID-19 task force to make sports events safer | FMHS Marketing & Communication / FGGW Bemarking & Kommunikasie | A sports and exercise medicine expert from SU is a member of a high-level international task force that has developed a free online tool to help event organisers to assess and mitigate the COVID-19 risk during endurance sports events. |
| Book launched that explores the lasting effects of race and racism in SA society | http://www.sun.ac.za/english/Lists/news/DispForm.aspx?ID=7470 | | Book launched that explores the lasting effects of race and racism in SA society | USB | USB hosts book launch for 'Fault Lines' that explores the lasting effects of race and racism in South African |
| Stellenbosch University Associate Professor Receives Georg Forster Award | http://www.sun.ac.za/english/Lists/news/DispForm.aspx?ID=7471 | | Stellenbosch University Associate Professor Receives Georg Forster Award | Law | Professor Theo Broodryk, Associate Professor of Law, was recently awarded the prestigious Georg Forster Fellowship Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Germany. |
| Support for lecturers during "Emergency Remote Teaching, Learning and Assessment" | http://www.sun.ac.za/english/Lists/news/DispForm.aspx?ID=7464 | | Support for lecturers during "Emergency Remote Teaching, Learning and Assessment" | Claudia Swart | The onset of COVID-19 has necessitated us to replace our face-to-face interaction with students during Semester 1 and the foreseeable future with preparing and instituting “Emergency Remote Teaching, Learning and Assessment” (ERT). |
| Resuming the national school nutrition programme is a vital test for children’s socio-economic rights | http://www.sun.ac.za/english/Lists/news/DispForm.aspx?ID=7466 | | Resuming the national school nutrition programme is a vital test for children’s socio-economic rights | Sandra Liebenberg | The outcome of the case concerning children’s rights to food and basic education, to be argued before the Gauteng North High Court on Thursday, will shape the terrain for achieving effective accountability for socio-economic rights in SA for years |
| Cigarette ban objections shrouded in murky history of tobacco | http://www.sun.ac.za/english/Lists/news/DispForm.aspx?ID=7467 | | Cigarette ban objections shrouded in murky history of tobacco | Elijah Doro | The murky political history of tobacco offers the opportunity to dispassionately unpack the puritanical, moral, industrial protectionist and scientific arguments for and against the cigarette ban. |
