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.

Artwork by Charley Robinson, an art major from Cordova, TN, is prominently featured in the distinguished Bellwethers Annual Juried Exhibition of Collegiate Student Art. The title of her work is Me, Myself, and My Ancestors. The show runs now through Nov. 14 at the West Tennessee Regional Art Center in Humboldt, TN.

As a college with a long and storied history, Rhodes is home to a wide range of traditions. Some date back for a century; other traditions, however, are of a more recent, and definitely less serious, origin.

Erin Moore '26 and Mika Colina '26 are two of the first recipients of the Theodore William Eckels International Practicum for Art and Art History, a newly established internship that fully funds students to work abroad for eight weeks.

Rhodes Colleges student volunteers have led the Tuesday soup kitchen at St. John’s United Methodist Church since 1988, but in recent years students have seen some of their own peers experiencing food insecurity. With that, the idea for an on-campus food pantry was born. Established in the spring of 2024 and open year-round, the Lynx Pantry makes available to Rhodes students free foods and toiletries that can make a difference to a student living on a shoestring budget.