Rhodes chemistry professor Dr. Mauricio Cafiero has been studying drug design involving new families of molecules that could help improve treatments for Parkinson’s disease. When he decided to expand his research and work with an international community of scientists this semester, he applied for a Rhodes grant that funded a Rhodes student’s participation in the research.
Recent M.S. in Accounting Grads Continue Program’s Sterling Placement Rate
Since its founding in 1993, Rhodes’ Master of Science in Accounting program has achieved a 100 percent job placement rate for students following graduation. The 2019 graduates continue this sterling success, having all been hired by the Big Four accounting firms—KPMG, Ernst & Young, Deloitte, and PricewaterhouseCoopers—or other national organizations.
Why so successful?
Rhodes Student and Professor Spend Summer Exploring Aquatic Ecosystems
Driven by a love of being outdoors and on the water, environmental science major Bernadette Badamo contacted assistant biology professor Dr. Patrick Kelly last year about assisting him with his research on aquatic ecosystems. As a result, she has spent this summer in a canoe measuring sources of organic carbon in Mid-South area lakes to analyze how these lakes store and release carbon and how they cycle nutrients.
McKenna Davis ’18 Wins National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship
Students continue to win national awards after they have graduated from Rhodes. McKenna Davis ’18, a physics and mathematics alumna, won the Goldwater Scholarship in 2017 when she was a junior. Now as an aerospace engineering graduate student at UCLA, she has won the highly competitive fellowship.
Prof. Amy Risley’s New Book Traces Evolution of Children’s Rights in Latin America
Dr. Amy Risley, professor and chair of international studies at Rhodes, has a new book out titled The Youngest Citizens. Published by Routledge this summer, it traces the evolution of children’s rights in Latin America and analyzes a dramatic discursive and policy shift that has occurred since the 1990s.
Bill Cochran to Retire as Head Men’s Golf Coach
Bill Cochran has announced that he will retire as Rhodes’ head men’s golf coach at the end of the 2019-20 season. This season will be Cochran’s 19th year as the Lynx head coach.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer to Speak at Rhodes College
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer will deliver Rhodes College’s annual Constitution Day lecture on October 3. “We are honored to have Justice Breyer join us in Memphis,” Rhodes President Marjorie Hass says. “Our community will get a rare look behind the scenes of the Supreme Court. Lectures like this one are a key component of the transformational experience we provide for our students.”
For Fourth Consecutive Year, First-Year Students Tour Memphis' National Civil Rights Museum
First-year students toured The National Civil Rights Museum with faculty and administrators supplementing the exhibits with lectures on African American history, Brown vs. Board, the Selma to Montgomery march, the Sanitation Workers' Strike, and the life and work of Dr. King. All four class years at Rhodes have now participated in the experience.
Rhodes Welcomes Its Newest Class, Marks Its 171st Academic Year
Of its more than 2,000 students, who come from 47 states and represent 54 countries, approximately 520 first-year students and 18 transfer students have committed to enroll fall 2019. Multicultural and international students make up 40 percent of the Class of 2023—an 8 percent increase compared with last year’s incoming class.
Accounting Professor Pamela Church Honored for Outstanding Faculty Service
Dr. Pamela Church, associate professor of accounting at Rhodes College, was presented the 2019 Jameson M. Jones Award for Outstanding Faculty Service at the college’s Opening Convocation Aug. 16.