| New initiative will tackle pollution in Eerste and Berg River catchments | http://www.sun.ac.za/english/Lists/news/DispForm.aspx?ID=6182 | | New initiative will tackle pollution in Eerste and Berg River catchments | Wiida Fourie-Basson | The Stellenbosch University Water Institute (SUWI) is taking the lead in the development of a new initiative to deal with the serious pollution problems in the catchments of the Eerste- and Berg Rivers. |
| Chancellor’s Awards to three Faculty of Science academics | http://www.sun.ac.za/english/Lists/news/DispForm.aspx?ID=6181 | | Chancellor’s Awards to three Faculty of Science academics | Media & Communication, Faculty of Science | Three academics from the Faculty of Science were honoured with the Stellenbosch University Chancellor's Award for excellence in research and in teaching and learning at the December 2018 graduation ceremony. |
| SAMS award to young mathematician | http://www.sun.ac.za/english/Lists/news/DispForm.aspx?ID=6180 | | SAMS award to young mathematician | Media & communication, Faculty of Science | At only 36, Prof Stephan Wagner from Stellenbosch University is one of the youngest mathematicians ever to be awarded the South African Mathematical Society's (SAMS) Award for Research Distinction in 2018. |
| ‘Oprah changed the trajectory of my life’ – newly graduated doctor | http://www.sun.ac.za/english/Lists/news/DispForm.aspx?ID=6179 | | ‘Oprah changed the trajectory of my life’ – newly graduated doctor | Sue Segar | Years ago, when she was still a child – and queuing in the early hours outside a Soweto clinic for medical attention for her grandmother’s hypertension – Boitumelo Theepe made a silent promise to herself that she would be a doctor one day. |
| Blitz receives ‘highest’ honour for her contribution to family medicine, education | http://www.sun.ac.za/english/Lists/news/DispForm.aspx?ID=6178 | | Blitz receives ‘highest’ honour for her contribution to family medicine, education | FMHS Marketing & Communication / FGGW Bemarking & Kommunikasie | Professor Julia Blitz has recently been awarded honorary fellowship to the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP). This is the ‘highest College award’ offered by the RCGP. |
| SU Teaching Fellows Recognition | http://www.sun.ac.za/english/Lists/news/DispForm.aspx?ID=6177 | | SU Teaching Fellows Recognition | Karin Cattell-Holden | At the annual Teaching Excellence Awards and Research Excellence Awards ceremony on 4 December 2018, at STIAS, five SU academics received certificates in honour of their completion of their Teaching Fellowships. |
| SU Teaching Excellence Awards 2018 | http://www.sun.ac.za/english/Lists/news/DispForm.aspx?ID=6176 | | SU Teaching Excellence Awards 2018 | Karin Cattell-Holden | The annual Teaching Excellence Awards and Research Excellence Awards ceremony took place at STIAS on 4 December 2018. |
| Two TygerMaties take coveted L’Oréal-UNESCO fellowships | http://www.sun.ac.za/english/Lists/news/DispForm.aspx?ID=6175 | | Two TygerMaties take coveted L’Oréal-UNESCO fellowships | FMHS Marketing & Communication / FGGW Bemarking & Kommunikasie | Two PhD candidates with the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (FMHS) were among 14 exceptional young women scientists in sub-Saharan Africa to receive coveted fellowships from the L’Oréal Foundation. |
| People in Africa live longer, but their health is poor in those extra years | http://www.sun.ac.za/english/Lists/news/DispForm.aspx?ID=6174 | | People in Africa live longer, but their health is poor in those extra years | Prof Charles Shey Wiysonge | People are now living longer in sub-Saharan Africa than they did two decades ago. This is an achievement, given that life expectancy in the region went down the drain from the 1990s to the mid-2000s as it choked under the effects of the HIV epidemic. |
| ISEM research article wins prestigious sports medicine award | http://www.sun.ac.za/english/Lists/news/DispForm.aspx?ID=6173 | | ISEM research article wins prestigious sports medicine award | Sue Segar | Dr Pierre Viviers and colleagues from the Institute of Sport and Exercise Medicine (ISEM) won the prestigious David Sisk Award for Best International Paper for the official journal of the American Orthopaedic Association. |
