Research at Stellenbosch University

𝙎𝙩𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙣𝙗𝙤𝙨𝙘𝙝 𝙐𝙣𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝙞𝙨 𝙝𝙤𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙞𝙩𝙨 𝙡𝙖𝙧𝙜𝙚𝙨𝙩-𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝘿𝙚𝙘𝙚𝙢𝙗𝙚𝙧 𝙜𝙧𝙖𝙙𝙪𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙨𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙬𝙚𝙚𝙠!

More than 6,000 graduands will be celebrated as they receive their degrees.

🔬 𝐃𝐨𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐃𝐞𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐬:
- A record 11.8% 𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐞 in PhDs awarded compared to last December, including women outnumbering men among PhD recipients.

This achievement underscores SU's commitment to advancing research and knowledge production.

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📷 Stefan Els

📷 Stellenbosch University at the Science Forum South Africa!

If you’re attending SFSA, come connect with us and learn more about the groundbreaking work happening at Stellenbosch University.

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Two outstanding researchers from Stellenbosch University have been inaugurated as members of the South African Young Academy of Science (SAYAS).

Dr Phila Msimang and Dr Noreth Muller-Kluits are among the ten new members announced at the recent annual Awards Ceremony.

SAYAS plays a vital role in raising the visibility and amplifying the impact of young scientists across South Africa.

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At 21:30 every night in October last year, Dr Yaseera Ismail, an experimental quantum physicist, would say quick goodbyes to delegates at the two major conferences she was hosting at @Stellenbosch University Then she’d race across campus to the Electrical Engineering Building, where a world-first quantum communication experiment was unfolding on the rooftop.

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Prof Catherine Du Toit, affiliated with the Department of Modern Foreign Languages at @StellenboschUni , uses her international expertise in French and various other literatures to explore how climate change, as an all-encompassing crime, finds fictional expression through a very specific reading of the situation. This results in texts that may appear dystopian but, in fact, present the current realities of climate change, or in texts featuring scenarios that align better with plausibility than speculation.

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