NASA to launch Rhodes College satellite into space
April 21, 2021
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) Rhodes College in Tennessee says NASA will launch into space a small satellite being designed and built at the liberal arts school.
The Memphis-based college said in a news release that the satellite is among 14 small research satellites chosen by NASA for the 2021 CubeSat Launch Initiative. The 4-inch by 4-inch by 4-inch (10-centimeter by 10-centimeter by 10-centimeter) satellite will be sent into space between 2022 and 2025, the college said.
The RHOK-SAT satellite is being built by students, faculty and staff at the college. It will test the space hardiness of novel solar cells for lunar and planetary missions, the college said.
WATCH | UCT counting the cost after fire guts library 20 April 2021 - 06:25 By Tashin Singh
University of Cape Town vice-chancellor Prof Mamokgethi Phakeng says it’s too early to estimate the loss the institution has suffered after a fire that gutted parts of the upper campus.
This comes after a blaze which started on Sunday around Rhodes Memorial swept through the area before reaching the UCT campus.
Cleanup operations started on Monday.
“It pains us to see what it looks like now in ashes,” Phakang said.
The vice-chancellor was joined by Western Cape premier Alan Winde and Cape Town mayor Dan Plato to assess the damage.
Rhodes experiment entails studying group of Dutch tourists pandemic-related behavior on holiday isle
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General view of the Mitsis Grand Hotel Beach amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Rhodes on the island of Rhodes, Greece April 12, 2021. Picture taken with a drone. REUTERS/Louiza Vradi
Of the 25,000 who submitted an application to participate in an Covid-19-related experiment by the Dutch government for a paid vacation to the Dodecanese island of Rhodes, one of Greece s premier island destinations, 189 were chosen.
This sample group will subsequently come under scrutiny by public health researchers, whose data will ostensibly determine the best way in which the this year s tourism season can be inaugurated amid a pandemic.
Dutch travellers, all aged between 18 to 70, were asked to quarantine at the five-star beach-front Mitsis Grand Hotel in Rhodes Island for a ‘covid vacation’.
Pakistani blind student wins Rhodes scholarship
National
April 12, 2021
A Pakistani blind student has created history by winning the Pakistan’s Rhodes scholar-elect for 2021. Currently studying at Georgetown University’s campus in Qatar (GU-Q), Khansa Maria will head to Oxford University next fall to pursue a master’s degree in evidence-based policy intervention and social evaluation. Visually impaired, Khansa had to face many struggles while studying in Pakistan hence, she is determined to do something for the physically challenged.
Khansa Maria, who considers the challenges faced by physically impaired people as very personal, is deeply passionate about advocating for their rights and designing accessible communities in an effort to ensure inclusivity. She feels that she has a certain responsibility toward her community to improve things to the extent that she can, or at least lend her skills or her experience in a way that benefits people like her in Pakistan.