Rhodes College music alumnus Gunter Gaupp ’16 is the 2025 winner of The American Prize Charles Ives Award in Chamber Music, which honors the finest contemporary chamber music composers in the U.S. in professional, college/university, high school and community divisions. Gaupp is recognized in the professional division for his composition Is This/This Is It, written for two violins, a viola, and cello.

Rhodes College will be part of a bike-sharing program to enhance mobility and community engagement in Memphis. A new bike station provided by the non-profit organization Explore Bike Share is scheduled to be installed on Dec. 16 at the Rhodes College Bookstore, located on the college’s West Campus.

A book by Rhodes College international studies professor Dr. Shadrack Nasong'o has received the 2025 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award. The prestigious honor reflects the best scholarly titles reviewed during the previous calendar year and chosen by editors of Choice, which is a publishing unit of the Association of College & Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association.

Chi Nguyen, a sophomore urban studies major from Hanoi, Vietnam, received second place in the Map Gallery Competition at the 24th annual Memphis Area Geographic Information Council Conference held Nov. 20-21. She presented her project titled “Examining Crosstown Mid-Autumn Festival and Vietnamese Cultural Impacts in Memphis.”

Rhodes College’s New York City Internship program has provided students the opportunity to spend a semester studying theater and history in the Big Apple since 2019. This past summer, a new program., Literary NYC: Reading the City, shifted the focus to the written word to immerse students in the rhythm of one of America’s oldest and greatest cities.

Rhodes Historical Review, a student-edited journal published by the Rhodes chapter of the Phi Alpha Theta history honor society, has secured second prize in the honor society’s undergraduate print category of the 2025 Nash History Journal competition. Sarah Dassinger and Muhammad Waraich of the Rhodes Class of 2025 served as co-editors of the award-winning edition. Dr. Sarah Ifft Decker, associate professor of history, serves as faculty advisor.

Rhodes students Christopher Karohl ’27and Jennifer Bui ’26 received honors at the Arkansas IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence conference held Nov. 7-8, in Fayetteville, AR. The conference included participants from colleges and universities in Arkansas and surrounding states who presented research in the biological sciences, physics, and chemistry and biochemistry.

Rhodes College has been awarded a $500,000, three-year grant from the Mellon Foundation to expand and enrich its innovative Liberal Arts in Prison Program. The Rhodes program began in 2016 with a weekly Great Books Reading Group at the Women’s Therapeutic Residential Center, a state prison in Henning, TN.

Rhodes College senior Jasmine Jeffries was among 65 of the country’s youth leaders participating in the Allstate Foundation National Youth Service Summit recently held in Chicago. She was chosen from a highly competitive pool of more than 500 applicants who are already leading groundbreaking community impact initiatives.

When Anna Everly ’27 and Olivia Cass ’27 joined the Rhodes Impact Summer Experience (RISE) fellowship, they knew they’d spend the summer serving Memphis in meaningful ways. What they didn’t expect was how deeply their work with the Metropolitan Inter-Faith Association (MIFA) would shape their understanding of community, leadership, and purpose.