Tag : Stellenbosch University

#SciComm Mathematics

Portraits from the Pandemic: a mathematician’s artistic perspective

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by AdminBraai
For those of us still dealing with intense anxiety and burnout after the COVID-19 pandemic, the quaint watercolour-painted characters in Stellenbosch University maths professor Karin-Therese...
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Jan-Hendrik Hofmeyr: a biochemist who believes perceptions can be shifted

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In academia, change often happens slowly. Academics are born into a paradigm and, more often than not, they maintain that paradigm rather than interrogating and...
Health & Medical

Bone accountancy

Engela Duvenage
by Engela Duvenage
As part of her PhD in Anatomy, Mandi Alblas regularly visits Stellenbosch University’s Kirsten Skeletal Collection. Like an accountant she packs out, photographs and tallies each...
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Prof Wieland Gevers: Institution builder of note

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    Prof Wieland Gevers: Institution builder of note   In 1970, a 32-year-old Wieland Gevers faced a big decision: To stay in North America,...
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Eugene Cloete: the solution seeker

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Few academics can claim being natural entrepreneurs, but Professor Eugene Cloete is one of them. His curriculum vitae features not just his publications in academic...
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Paul Cilliers understood the nature of complexities

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Paul Cilliers passed away in 2011 leaving behind his family, friends and colleagues, and an impressive body of work on the topic of complexity. It...