Rhodes College is featured among Money magazine’s annual list of Best Colleges in America, which highlights the nation’s top colleges and universities based on key factors such as graduation rates, costs, financial aid, student debt, and alumni salaries. For the fifth consecutive year, Rhodes has made the list, which is based on a star rating system.
Prof. Jennifer Sciubba Awarded Bridging the Gap Policy Engagement Fellowship
An expert on demographic shifts, she plans to use the fellowship to share research from her current book project on population and to reach out to private sector audiences that use demographics to forecast trends.
April 16, 2018
Rhodes Board Chair Receives Jefferson Medal in Citizen Leadership
Rhodes College Board of Trustees Chair Cary Fowler received the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Citizen Leadership. As this year’s honoree, Dr. Fowler gave the keynote address at Monticello in Charlottesville, VA. during Jefferson’s 275th Birthday Celebration.
April 13, 2018
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