The award was announced at the Memphis Area Geographic Information Council conference held Nov. 16-17 at the Agricenter in Memphis. 

The English teacher is recipient of the award, hailed by Teacher magazine as the “Oscars of Teaching.” 

They are Mary Cat Cleavinger, Will Clinton, India Nikotich, Ryan Rosenkrantz, and Cody Stockton, who are all juniors.

The veteran Lynx coach is the 2017 NCAA Division III Men’s Cross Country South/Southeast Region Coach of the Year. 

This summer, art fellows Jane Eskildsen ’19 and Reagan Alley ’18, with visual resources curator Rosie Meindl, began the work of bringing the Jessie L. Clough Art Memorial for Teaching at Rhodes into the digital age.

Rhodes C mock trial team brought home the giant gavel after winning this year’s Mid-South Invitational held Nov. 10-11 at Middle Tennessee State University.

On Oct. 19, 2017, Rhodes College established the Alpha Iota Gamma Chapter of Kappa Delta Pi (KDP), an international honor society that recognizes and promotes excellence in education. Twenty-five students were inducted in a ceremony conducted by Rhodes educational studies faculty and KDP executive council member Dr. Clinton Smith of the University of Tennessee at Martin.  

Rowdy Kowalik ’19 has worked at the National Civil Rights Museum and Ruth Scott ’18 at the Dixon Gallery & Gardens. Three interns helped research material for a Memphis Heritage Inc. guide recently published.

Their research took top honors in the chemistry and physics categories.  

Austin Barringer ’19, a math major from Danville, KY, brings something different to the table when it comes to Rhodes College’s improvisational comedy troupe, Contents Under Pressure (CUP). Out of the 14 students in CUP, he’s the only one pursuing a STEM major.