A book by Rhodes College international studies professor Dr. Shadrack Nasong'o has received the 2025 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award. The prestigious honor reflects the best scholarly titles reviewed during the previous calendar year and chosen by editors of Choice, which is a publishing unit of the Association of College & Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association.
Prof. Earl Wright II Honored for Work in Sociology at Recent Conferences
He was awarded the Thomas C. Calhoun Excellence in Mentoring Award at the Mid-South Sociological Association’s 48th Annual Meeting held in Nashville, and his work the featured topic of the “Author Meets Legacy” session at the 52nd Annual Conference of the Association of Black Sociologists held in Chicago.
October 25, 2022
Sixteen from Rhodes College to Compete for 2023-2024 Fulbright U.S. Student Awards
The Fulbright U.S. Student Program provides grants for English teaching assistantships as well as for individually designed study/research projects abroad. Winners will be announced throughout Spring 2023.
October 24, 2022
Prof. David Rupke Part of International Group Making First Galactic Discoveries with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope
Dr. David Rupke, associate professor of physics at Rhodes College, is software lead and member of an international collaboration of astronomers and astrophysicists studying distant quasars with NASA’s new flagship observatory, the James Webb Space Telescope. The European Space Agency has announced a surprising discovery made by the scientists using the telescope.
October 20, 2022
Rhodes Team Tracking Satellites with Campus Ground Station, Preparing for NASA Launch of Their RHOK-SAT
In 2021, a Rhodes College team learned that a proposal for a four-inch cube satellite of their own design was accepted to be flown aboard a NASA-sponsored rocket. Now the team is getting the satellite ready for launch into space by late 2024, and they have been practicing how they will communicate with it using a ground station built on campus.
October 19, 2022
Individuals from Rhodes to Have Works Shown at Indie Memphis Film Festival
Dr. Joy Brooke Fairfield, assistant professor of media studies, Yifei “Yash” Zhang ’21, and Janay Kelley ’24 will have their works featured at the 54th Indie Memphis Film Festival to be held Oct. 19-24.
October 13, 2022
Rhodes College Featured Among Billboard’s “2022 Top Music Business Schools”
Rhodes is featured as one of Billboard magazine’s “2022 Top Music Business Schools” for its Mike Curb Institute for Music. This is not the college’s first appearance on this world stage, having also made the roster in 2020.
October 11, 2022
Prof. Caki Wilkinson Is a Featured Poet on Poetry Daily
Award-winning poet Caki Wilkinson’s poem “Fox Song” from her book The Survival Expo was featured online Oct. 6 on Poet Daily, whose editors say they select the best and most interesting poems from publications for their thousands of readers.
October 10, 2022
Jackson Hendrix ’24: Bringing Memphis Music Back to Elvis' First Home
Jackson Hendrix ’24 began his journey at Rhodes knowing nothing of cameras—fast forward to his junior year, the computer science and media studies double major is leading a video team working to bring back a piece of history.
October 06, 2022
Dining Room at Rhodes College Named in Memory of Tina McWhorter ’66
New Dining Hall West is now the Tina McWhorter Dining Room named in memory of Rhodes alumna Tina McWhorter ’66. McWhorter died Dec. 28, 2021, and included a generous gift to the college in her estate plan.
October 04, 2022
Prof. Shana Stoddard Receives National Teaching Award
She received the 2022 Henry C. McBay Outstanding Teacher Award at the 49th annual meeting of the National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers held in Orlando, FL, on Sept. 28.
October 03, 2022