| AUDA-NEPAD launches Centre of Excellence to upscale home-grown innovations in Africa | https://www.sun.ac.za/english/Lists/news/DispForm.aspx?ID=8352 | | AUDA-NEPAD launches Centre of Excellence to upscale home-grown innovations in Africa | AUDA-NEPAD, CSIR & SU | Pretoria, 22 June 2021 - The African Union Development Agency (AUDA-NEPAD), in partnership with the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and Stellenbosch University (SU), have launched a Centre of Excellence in Science, Technology and Inn |
| New centre will strengthen radiodiagnosis expertise | https://www.sun.ac.za/english/Lists/news/DispForm.aspx?ID=8350 | | New centre will strengthen radiodiagnosis expertise | FMHS Marketing & Communications / FGGW Bemarking & Kommunikasie – Jackie Pienaar-Brink | The training capacity and expertise at the Division of Radiodiagnosis at Stellenbosch University (SU) will be significantly strengthened by a global learning centre that is being established there with the help of the Radiology Society of North America. |
| SU part of new network to strengthen teaching in Africa about roundworms | https://www.sun.ac.za/english/Lists/news/DispForm.aspx?ID=8349 | | SU part of new network to strengthen teaching in Africa about roundworms | Engela Duvenage | Nematologists of Stellenbosch University's Department of Conservation Ecology and Entomology are part of a new three-year project that funds the development of research and educational capacity in Sub-Saharan Africa on the topic of nematodes (also known |
| World Refugee Day: Refugees, asylum seekers in SA finding it hard to study | https://www.sun.ac.za/english/Lists/news/DispForm.aspx?ID=8348 | | World Refugee Day: Refugees, asylum seekers in SA finding it hard to study | Callixte Kavuro | Sunday (20 June) was World Refugee Day. In an opinion piece for Daily Maverick, Dr Callixte Kavuro from the Department of Public Law calls on the South African government to make funds available to refugees and asylum seekers who want to study. |
| Universities critical in “reimagining the future Africa" | https://www.sun.ac.za/english/Lists/news/DispForm.aspx?ID=8347 | | Universities critical in “reimagining the future Africa" | Daniel Bugan | Stellenbosch University (SU) recently hosted the inaugural African Student Leaders Network (ASLN) summit to promote good governance and ethics among student leaders. |
| South African young scientists to compete in high-tech Hong Kong science fair | https://www.sun.ac.za/english/Lists/news/DispForm.aspx?ID=8346 | | South African young scientists to compete in high-tech Hong Kong science fair | Erika Hoffman | Innovative South African scientific research about prosthesis control using muscle impulses will compete against other high-tech studies in the 2021 Virtual Global Youth Science and Technology Bowl (GYSTB) Science Fair in Hong Kong |
| #SUyouthday: 'Stay deeply rooted in your truth' | https://www.sun.ac.za/english/Lists/news/DispForm.aspx?ID=8344 | | #SUyouthday: 'Stay deeply rooted in your truth' | Sonika Lamprecht / Photo: Stefan Els | Karlize Korf, a fifth-year medical student, has been a member of the Stellenbosch University (SU) Choir for five years. She encourages the youth to find their truth and to stay rooted in that, in spite of what their realities might look like. |
| SU featured at 8th International Symposium on Service-Learning (ISSL 2021-22) | https://www.sun.ac.za/english/Lists/news/DispForm.aspx?ID=8343 | | SU featured at 8th International Symposium on Service-Learning (ISSL 2021-22) | Chevaan Peters | Stellenbosch University (SU) collaborated with the University Nicosia, University of Indianapolis and Indiana Campus Compact to present the 8th International Symposium on Service-Learning (ISSL 2021-22) virtually on 11 June 2021. |
| SU commemorates Youth Day with Social Justice Walk | https://www.sun.ac.za/english/Lists/news/DispForm.aspx?ID=8342 | | SU commemorates Youth Day with Social Justice Walk | Daniel Bugan | To commemorate Youth Day, Prof Thuli Madonsela, incumbent of the research chair in social justice in Stellenbosch University's Faculty of Law, along with Dwarsrivier Tourism and Visit Stellenbosch introduced a Social Justice Walk. The 16 km walk runs thr |
| Implications of COVID alert level 3 for SU | https://www.sun.ac.za/english/Lists/news/DispForm.aspx?ID=8340 | | Implications of COVID alert level 3 for SU | Prof Stan du Plessis: ICBC Chair | Earlier this week, President Cyril Ramaphosa moved the country to adjusted alert level 3. This is in response to an increase in coronavirus infections nationally, which has seen the average number of daily new cases double. |
