Dr. Scott Newstok, professor of English and executive director of the Spence Wilson Center for Interdisciplinary Humanities at Rhodes College, has been awarded a four-year grant from the State Research Agency of Spain. This award will support his scholarship on the multilingual heritage of early modern English across legal, religious, political, and literary discourses. Newstok’s project was one of 37 funded among 254 applications; in the three-year history of Spain’s research program, he is the second recipient who works in the humanities, and the only recipient from a liberal arts college.
Prof. Nikolaos Zahariadis Lectures in Rome as Fulbright Specialist
The Fulbright Specialist Program sends U.S. faculty and professionals to share their expertise, hone their skills, and strengthen institutional linkages at academic institutions abroad.
April 13, 2018
Can Scrabble Help Teach Writing? One Rhodes Professor Thinks So
National Scrabble Day is observed each year on April 13, but during the fall semester at Rhodes, Professor Scott Garner includes Scrabble, chess, Monopoly, and other board games among discussion topics for his first-year writing seminar.
April 12, 2018
Rhodes College Dedicates Glen Davis Machine Shop
Thanks to the vision and generosity of Dr. Charles Robertson Jr. ’65, the shop was renovated and named in honor of Glen Davis, technical associate in the Department of Physics. Davis has managed the shop for 20 years, teaching students and others on campus machining, fabricating, and welding, as well as making and repairing items for college instruction, research, and maintenance.
April 12, 2018
Students to Present Work at 15th Annual Gender and Sexuality Studies Symposium
The event will feature moderated panels of scholarly and creative presentations by Rhodes students.
April 11, 2018
Rhodes’ Phi Beta Kappa Chapter Announces Members from the Class of 2018 to Be Inducted
Phi Beta Kappa is America’s oldest collegiate honor society. Only about 10 percent of the nation’s institutions of higher learning have Phi Beta Kappa chapters.
April 10, 2018
Two From Rhodes Awarded National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships
Rhodes senior Matthew Huber and alumna Kayla Wilson have been offered the fellowships, following a national competition. The new awardees were selected from more than 12,000 applicants.
April 09, 2018
Rhodes Sophomore and Music Producer Raneem Imam on Track to be Multifaceted Artist
The music major is an intern at Royal Studios where many hits in the 1960s and ’70s were recorded, and she has produced her own EP, titled “DIALOGUE.”
April 09, 2018
Rhodes Awards Honorary Degree to Civil Rights Activist Rev. James Lawson
While in Memphis for MLK50 events, Rev. Lawson spoke to a packed room in Rhodes’ Briggs Hall on April 5 about the history and changes of the country as well as the continued need for social justice. The Rhodes Board of Trustees earlier this year voted to confer the degree, and a brief ceremony took place prior to the talk.
April 06, 2018
Rhodes Student Caroline Bush ’19 Among Recently Named Goldwater Scholars
A biomathematics major, she is one of 211 students nationwide to receive the Goldwater Scholarship for 2018-2019, which is the preeminent undergraduate award of its type in the fields of mathematics, the natural sciences, and engineering.
April 05, 2018
Research Proposal by Prof. Rupke and Team of U.S. and International Astronomers Accepted by NASA
The research will be conducted by the James Webb Space Telescope, which is scheduled for launch in 2020.
April 04, 2018