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Colonial legacies shape urban nature: why this should change

Mar 25, '21ByThe Conversation

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

Mar 24, '21ByEHT Collaboration

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 University, were involved in this discovery.

Rhodes University pays tribute to its Distinguished Alumni Awardee, Pearce Rood

Mar 24, '21ByCommunications

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.

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22Apr

COVID-19 in Retrospect: Responses to the Pandemic, Vaccine Discovery and the Politics of PharmaCare in Africa

The Rhodes University African Studies Centre in association with the Institute for Africa and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Lagos will host a discussion to examine fundamental questions relating to the politics of global health and Africa’s position in the world health systems architecture.

10:00 - 14:00
Online via Zoom bit.ly/3g8lCcc