Women’s Golf is the only athletic program at Rhodes College to have claimed three NCAA Division III National Championships. Led by legendary coach and alumnus Mike Clary ’77, the Lynx clinched national titles in the 2013-2014, 2015-2016, and 2016-2017 seasons, and now will be inducted in the Rhodes Athletic Hall of Fame on Nov. 14 during the college’s Homecoming/Reunion Weekend.
Annual Fund Challenge Reaches Goal
We did it! The recent Annual Fund challenge—All Roads Lead to Rhodes Giving Day—raised $175,564 with 1,023 gifts, surpassing the college’s goal of 1,000 gifts.
April 11, 2019
2019-2020 Fulbright U.S. Student Awards: Anna Lee Nabors ’19 to Teach in Senegal
The Rhodes senior is pursuing a major in international studies and French. She will serve as a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant in Senegal.
April 11, 2019
Rhodes Is National Mock Trial Runner-Up
Rhodes College Mock Trial Team A emerged as runner-up at the American Mock Trial Association National Championship Tournament, after going up against Yale University. A total of 48 teams—two from Rhodes—competed April 4-7 in Philadelphia, PA.
April 10, 2019
Chemistry Students Rack up Top Prizes at National Conference
Sophomore Kayla Puzdrakiewicz won an outstanding undergraduate poster award at the recently held American Chemical Society National Conference. Senior Rebecca Evans beat out all other competitors in a contest to see who could search for scientific data the fastest using the software SciFinder.
April 09, 2019
2019-2020 Fulbright U.S. Student Awards: Ryan Rosenkrantz ’19 to Teach in Malta
The Rhodes senior is pursuing an educational studies major. He will serve as a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant in Malta.
April 05, 2019
Rhodes′ Phi Beta Kappa Chapter to Induct New Members
Phi Beta Kappa is America’s oldest collegiate honor society and champions the liberal arts and sciences in higher education and in society at large. Only about 10 percent of the nation’s institutions of higher learning have Phi Beta Kappa chapters.
April 04, 2019
2019-2020 Fulbright U.S. Student Awards: Lillie Stephens ’19 to Teach in Spain
The Rhodes senior is pursuing a major in political science and international studies. She will serve as a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant in Spain.
April 03, 2019
Rhodes Voice Student Places First in National Association of Teachers of Singing’s Regional Competition
Cameron Crawford ’19 recently won first place in the Upper College Music Theatre Women category at the Mid-South Regional Auditions of the National Association of Teachers of Singing. She and nine other Rhodes students participated in the event held at Austin Peay State University.
April 02, 2019
Neuroscience Intern Elizabeth Gaudio ’19 Publishes Research in Major Medical Journal
Senior neuroscience major Elizabeth Gaudio was one of the first interns of Rhodes’ Le Bonheur Summer Plus Program, which was established in partnership with Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital in 2017. Now, the research she has produced as part of her internship is published in the Journal of Child Neurology.
April 01, 2019
Prof. Marshall Boswell Has New Book Out on Literary Figure David Foster Wallace
It is titled The Wallace Effect: David Foster Wallace and the Contemporary Literary Imagination (Bloomsbury, 2019). According to the publisher’s description, Boswell explores David Foster Wallace’s (1962-2008) contested space at the forefront of 21st-century American fiction.
March 29, 2019