Former Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 SRC President selected 2021 FISU ambassador
Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 2020 Student Representative Council President, Katlego Mphahlele has been selected as the 2021 ambassador of the International 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 Sports Federation (FISU).
Account hijack alert - Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 Facebook Page
It is with great consternation that we share the news that our official Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 Facebook page has been hijacked and is no longer under our control.
Ultra-sensitive radio images reveal thousands of star-forming galaxies in early Universe
An international team of astronomers has published the most sensitive images of the Universe ever taken at low radio frequencies, using the International Low Frequency Array (LOFAR).
African Languages student writes first-ever ChiShona PhD thesis at Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网
A PhD student in the African Language Studies Section in the School of Languages and Literatures, Mr Ignatius Mabasa, has been awarded a PhD for the first-ever thesis written in ChiShona at Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网.
The humble beetle that could rescue a town
Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网's Associate Professor Julie Coetzee from the Department of Botany recently weighed in on how South Africa has successfully brought Salvinia molesta under control thanks to the release of the weevil into its freshwater systems since 1985.
Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 Masters candidate takes part in FameLab 2021
A second year Statistics Masters student, Babalwa Falteni, is participating in the 2021 FameLab programme that starts today online and will end tomorrow.
Philosophy lecturer awarded for community engagement excellence
Mapula Maponya from the Allan Gray Centre for Leadership Ethics (AGCLE), is the recipient of the 2020 Vice Chancellor’s Distinguished Award for Community Engagement.
Colonial legacies shape urban nature: why this should change
Being in nature has benefits for people, as studies have shown. There’s ample evidence that experiences of nature have positive physical and psychological outcomes. But these insights have largely come from the Global North. There’s very little research on how urban communities in the Global South experience or view urban nature.
Astronomers bring M87’s black hole into sharper focus
The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration, who produced the first ever image of a black hole, has revealed today a new view of the massive object at the centre of the M87 galaxy: how it looks in polarised light. EHT collaboration members Dr Iniyan Natarajan and Prof Roger Deane, both with roots in Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网, were involved in this discovery.
Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 pays tribute to its Distinguished Alumni Awardee, Pearce Rood
Pearce was a boy from Klerksdorp who could never quite believe that he was a partner in the world’s largest law firm, a member of the MCC and the Reform Club. Someone who had spoken to the Crown Prince of Japan in Japanese, even though he had not said “I hang upon your eye” as the courtliest Japanese demanded.
22 March 2021: “National Universities shutdown” - Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 Update
Various departments of the 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 were hard at work over the long weekend in an endeavour to cover accumulated backlogs in critical areas of operation. The backlogs include the registration of some first time entering students (FTENs), processing of students allowances, distribution of laptops for new students and cleaning of students’ residences. The following update relates to some of the work completed and/or in progress:
Renowned poet and founder of Wordfest, Professor Chris Mann, passes away
Professor Chris Mann, who was based at Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网’s Institute for the Study of the Englishes in Africa (ISEA) and founded Wordfest, died peacefully at his home in Makhanda last week, following a cancer diagnosis in 2020.
16 March 2021: “National universities shutdown” - Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 update
Legal and disciplinary breaches by protesting students, including intimidation and abuse of staff coming to work, abuse of 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 property, threats targeted at students and parents visiting campus to drop-off students, have compelled Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 to review with immediate effect the strategy to ensure safety and health on campus.
Two is better than one, as two sets of twins enroll at Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网
Someone who has read the novel Ityala Lamawele by Samuel Edward Krune Mqhayi or watched the telenovela on SABC 1 would know that it is sometimes rare for twins to see eye to eye, let alone love the same things. However, two sets of twins who came to register at Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 this week paint an altogether different story.
NFSAS funding, allowances and extended registration update
Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 acknowledges the announcement yesterday by the Minister of Higher Education, Science and Innovation (DHET), Dr Blade Nzimande, that Cabinet took a decision that funding for DHET would have to be reprioritised to address the National Student Financial Aid Scheme is a South African (NSFAS) funding shortfall.
Rewriting History: Fossil lamprey larvae from South Africa overturn textbook assumptions on vertebrate origins
A new study published in Nature is prompting the rewrite of all biology textbooks relating to the origin and evolution of vertebrates – including the modern human. The study, by Professor Rob Gess from the Albany Museum in Makhanda (Grahamstown) shows that the foundation on which most of the research done on the origin of vertebrates (any animal with a backbone such as goldfish, lizards, crows and people) has been based on incorrect assumptions.
Beating cancer motivates teen to study Psychology at Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网
When a young girl from Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth) was diagnosed with leukemia in 2013 and admitted to Red Cross Children’s Hospital in Cape Town, she wasn’t sure if her studies would ever extend beyond Grade 5.
Khanya Maths & Science Club celebrates 21 years of helping local learners
An initiative that started as a small idea in 2000 at Albany Museum under Nonceba Shoba's leadership has grown into a fully-fledged partnership between Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 and GADRA Education.
Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 Professor co-authors article to aid public understanding of COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2 and the vaccines
Published on 1 March 2021 in the SA Medical Journal, the article titled Viruses, variants and vaccines was co-authored by Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网’s Professor Rosemary Dorrington from the Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology.
Communications and Advancement Division bids farewell to Qondakele Sompondo
After ten years at the helm of Development and Fundraising at Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网, Qondakele Sompondo bowed out in February to take on a new challenge as the Director of Institutional Advancement at Sol Plaatje 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网.