| Stellenbosch University Celebrates International Chinese Language Day with Cultural Showcase | http://www.sun.ac.za/english/Lists/news/DispForm.aspx?ID=11266 | | Stellenbosch University Celebrates International Chinese Language Day with Cultural Showcase | Marlo Van Wyk | To mark International Chinese Language Day 2025, the Confucius Institute at Stellenbosch University (CISU), hosted a cultural celebration on 25 April, highlighted by the Maritime Silk Road Photo Exhibition. |
| Strengthening Science Communication: Stellenbosch Students Participate in VIU Spring School | http://www.sun.ac.za/english/Lists/news/DispForm.aspx?ID=11265 | | Strengthening Science Communication: Stellenbosch Students Participate in VIU Spring School | Luther Chipembere, Zani de Wit and Katherine Rabik | Empowering researchers with communication and engagement skills is essential to transform scientific discoveries into public understanding, trust, and meaningful policy change. |
| Freedom Day: Experts focus on moral leadership, moral imagination and religion | http://www.sun.ac.za/english/Lists/news/DispForm.aspx?ID=11264 | | Freedom Day: Experts focus on moral leadership, moral imagination and religion | Corporate Communication and Marketing/Korporatiewe Kommunikasie en Bemarking | South Africans celebrated Freedom Day on 27 April. In opinion pieces for the media, experts at Stellenbosch University emphasised the importance of moral leadership, moral imagination and religion in a free and democratic country. |
| New research chair at SU to impact the blue economy | http://www.sun.ac.za/english/Lists/news/DispForm.aspx?ID=11263 | | New research chair at SU to impact the blue economy | Article by Jorisna Bonthuys | Prof Annie Bekker from Stellenbosch University’s (SU’s) Department of Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering has been awarded the DSI/NRF-SAIMI SARChI Research Chair in Naval Architecture and Design. |
| Maties Sport Annual Report 2024: Celebrating Impact, Inspiring the Future | http://www.sun.ac.za/english/Lists/news/DispForm.aspx?ID=11262 | | Maties Sport Annual Report 2024: Celebrating Impact, Inspiring the Future | Kimara Singh | Maties Sport Annual Report 2024: Celebrating Impact, Inspiring the Future |
| New 'data science HQ' is a space for collaboration and exploration | http://www.sun.ac.za/english/Lists/news/DispForm.aspx?ID=11261 | | New 'data science HQ' is a space for collaboration and exploration | Corporate Communication and Marketing/Korporatiewe Kommunikasie en Bemarking [Anel Lewis] | More than five years since it was launched, Stellenbosch University's globally renowned School for Data Science and Computational Thinking has a new home at the JC Smuts building, occupying a space “designed for connection, collaboration, exploration". |
| Stellenbosch University's Botanical Garden, bucking the global trend | http://www.sun.ac.za/english/Lists/news/DispForm.aspx?ID=11260 | | Stellenbosch University's Botanical Garden, bucking the global trend | Wiida Fourie-Basson and Jeraldene Menon | As Autumn approaches, the Haemanthus pumilio, a critically endangered species and one of the “paintbrush lilies", will flower in the Stellenbosch University Botanical Garden (SUBG). |
| Cutting off parasite’s energy supply could help fight malaria | http://www.sun.ac.za/english/Lists/news/DispForm.aspx?ID=11259 | | Cutting off parasite’s energy supply could help fight malaria | Corporate Communication and Marketing/Korporatiewe Kommunikasie en Bemarking [Alec Basson] | A new study at Stellenbosch University found that blocking the enzymes involved in the breaking down glucose (a sugar) could cut off the parasite's primary energy source and kill it. |
| Passing of renowned herpetologist met with shock and sadness | http://www.sun.ac.za/english/Lists/news/DispForm.aspx?ID=11258 | | Passing of renowned herpetologist met with shock and sadness | Faculty of Science (media & communication) | The Centre for Invasion Biology (CIB) and the Department of Botany and Zoology at Stellenbosch University (SU) were shocked to learn of the passing of Dr John Measey (57) following a mountain bike accident in China on 19 April 2025. |
| SU students, staff join in celebrating Earth Day 2025 | http://www.sun.ac.za/english/Lists/news/DispForm.aspx?ID=11257 | | SU students, staff join in celebrating Earth Day 2025 | Petro Mostert | SU students, staff join in celebrating Earth Day 2025 |
