Bill Short worked with author R. Scott Williams on his new book titled The Forgotten Adventures of Richard Halliburton, From Tennessee to Timbuktu.

The Rhodes College Athletics Department announced the George Lapides Sportsmanship Award. It will honor a senior athlete who exemplifies the highest level of sportsmanship.

Political Science Professor Marcus Pohlmann in his article in The Tennessean recommends that a school voucher program should be based on solid data.

A crosstown agreement with the University of Memphis has allowed students to pursue a Rhodes degree while taking required ROTC courses at the university.

Dr. Elizabeth Pettinaroli has been named to the jury who will select this year’s winner of The Miguel de Cervantes Prize.

Dale Hutcherson ‘15 balances his studies, extracurriculars, and civic responsibilities while digging deep into local history

Dr. Jonathan Judaken, the Spence L Wilson Chair in the Humanities, was interviewed by the Jewish Chronicle.

By Lynn Conlee

The road to Freedom Preparatory Academy is rough. Abandoned buildings, a decrepit drive-in movie theater, and boarded up houses, sporadically interrupted by still-vibrant shopping centers and fast-food joints, line Highway 61 South. But on a residential street just to the west of the highway, tidy ranch houses with manicured lawns ring a brick school building with gleaming orange and blue doors that bear Freedom Prep’s logo—a bird in flight, a fitting symbol for the five-year-old charter school where the freedom to soar academically awaits each student.

Ellie Skochdopole ’15 recieves internship at the Smithsonian.

Dr. Michael LaRosa, associate professor of history at Rhodes, has published a commentary on immigration reform in this week’s Memphis Flyer.