Dr. Angi Bourgeois, head of the Department of Art at Mississippi State University, is among 52 selected as 2016-17 Southeastern Conference Academic (SEC) Leadership Development Program Fellows.

Rhodes students recently presented their geographic information system (GIS) research projects at the Mid-South GIS Conference held Nov. 16 and 17 in Memphis. Samantha Ramsey ’17 (pictured; environmental science and French double major) won the annual GIS scholarship for her presentation, “Bottled Water Economics in Washington State.”

In a process unique to art majors and minors, Senior Seminar students recently had the first of two formal, and very public, critiques of their work at the Evergreen Art Studios. Visiting critics included Memphis artist Terry Lynn and Patricia Lee Daigle, assistant professor of art history at the University of Memphis and director of the Martha and Robert Fogelman Galleries of Contemporary Art. Rhodes art and art history faculty also joined the students for the critique.

The Rhodes Engineering Club is excited to announce it will participate in the Student Design Build Fly Competition, sponsored by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Spring 2017.

Stories about Rhodes College students and faculty in Summer 2016.

Jay Hedges ’17, from Little Rock, AR, is majoring in political economy, with an urban studies minor. He serves as the 2016-2017 president of Rhodes Student Government (RSG), which represents the students and their interests to the administration and works to foster a well-rounded community that encourages growth.

Join us in welcoming the new class of Rhodes students.

Rhodes chemistry major Kayla Wilson ’17 has been sailing across the Atlantic Ocean with other upper-level science students on a state-of-the-art oceanographic research vessel.

Erica Smythe ’17 is working as a curatorial intern executing gallery openings as well as archiving the Brooks Museum’s impressive exhibition history.

Dr. Rylan Testa of the Department of Psychology has co-published “Suicidal Ideation in Transgender People: Gender Minority Stress and Interpersonal Theory Factors” in the Journal of Abnormal Psychology.