Six graduating seniors’ portraits are being added to Rhodes College’s Hall of Fame on the second floor of Southwestern Hall. The honorees are Jasmine Jeffries, Olivia Mack, Joshua Morris, Ariyana Muesse, Jude Shive, and KK Sowers. Selection to the Hall of Fame, which was established in 1931, is based on individual merit, leadership in student activities, service to others, and overall contributions to the campus community. Election to the Hall of Fame is considered one of the highest honors that can come to a student.
Rhodes Captures Spot on “Most Beautiful Colleges” List
The Most Beautiful Colleges list, which features the work of top architects and designers, notes the college’s “beautiful wooded campus with uniformly Collegiate Gothic buildings made of Arkansas sandstone, Vermont slate, and Indiana limestone.”
November 05, 2018
Rhodes Field Hockey Clenches SAA Championship, Coach Lindsay Kasten Named SAA Coach of the Year
Rhodes Field Hockey defeated Centre College 2-1 and clenched the Southern Athletic Association championship title on Sunday, Nov. 4. The win is the fifth tournament championship victory for the Lynx in the seven-year history of the SAA.
November 05, 2018
Trip to Mississippi Delta Brings Classroom Studies to Life
Students in the English course Voices of the Delta had the unusual opportunity of traveling during a regular campus course, along with faculty members, to engage with the history, culture, and landscape they’re currently studying in class.
November 02, 2018
Rhodes to Honor Alumnus and WWII Veteran Declared Missing in Action for Decades
U.S.Army Air Forces 2nd Lt. Martin F. O’Callaghan, Jr., a member of the Class of 1944, was killed during World War II. Listed as missing in action for more than seven decades, his remains were finally identified this year and are being returned to his family for a service and burial with full military honors on Nov. 5.
November 01, 2018
Rhodes Producing Play in Conjunction with Southwest Tennessee Community College, the U of M as Part of “NottageFest”
The Rhodes Department of Theatre is teaming up with the University of Memphis and Southwest Tennessee Community College to produce “NottageFest,” a three-show festival dedicated to two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage.
November 01, 2018
Rhodes Department of Psychology Hosts Annual Pumpkin Carving Contest
Pumpkins are carved and designed by teams made up of students and faculty members. Participants are required to base their design on the topics and themes they examine in their research.
October 31, 2018
McCoy Theatre to Offer Free Season
McCoy’s 38th season includes three plays, along with four events ranging from shows by the Rhodes Theatre Guild to the 14th Annual Memphis Children’s Theatre Festival. The next performance is “Fabulation Or, The Re-Education of Undine” running Nov. 9-10 and 15-18.
October 29, 2018
Rhodes’ VP of Student Life Chosen for Highly Selective Pahara-Aspen Education Fellowship
Dr. Russell Wigginton, vice president of student life and dean of students at Rhodes, is one of 25 leaders nationwide recently named a Fall 2018 Pahara-Aspen Education Fellow by the Pahara and Aspen Institutes.
October 29, 2018
Dr. Tyler Lefevor to be Published in The Counseling Psychologist Alongside Alexis Franklin ’18 & William-Michael Stone ’19
Tyler Lefevor, a counselor-presenter-researcher and assistant professor of psychology at Rhodes will have research published in an upcoming issue of The Counseling Psychologist. Titled “Initial Distress and Therapeutic Outcomes Among Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming People of Color,” it is co-authored by Rhodes alum Alexis Franklin ’18 and student William-Michael Stone ’19.
October 24, 2018
Prof. Jonathan Judaken Publishes on Anti-Semitism in American Historical Review
The October 2018 issue features a roundtable of seven essays on “Rethinking Anti-Semitism” edited by Prof. Judaken, who is the Spence L. Wilson Chair in the Humanities at Rhodes.
October 23, 2018