Anna Claire Tilley, a Rhodes College senior from Fort Smith, AR, has been awarded The Steve and Riea Lainoff Crop Trust Fellowship in Honor of Cary Fowler ’71. She is pursuing a major in urban studies and a minor in environmental studies and will support the work of the resource mobilization and communications teams of the Global Crop Diversity Trust in Bonn, Germany, in August 2025.
Tierin Burrow ’19 Wins Scholarship for GIS Research
The award was announced at the Memphis Area Geographic Information Council conference held Nov. 16-17 at the Agricenter in Memphis.
November 20, 2017
Rhodes Alumna Katherine Watkins ’07 Wins $25,000 Milken Educator Award
The English teacher is recipient of the award, hailed by Teacher magazine as the “Oscars of Teaching.”
November 17, 2017
Robert Buckman Fellowships for Study Abroad Awarded for Spring 2018
They are Mary Cat Cleavinger, Will Clinton, India Nikotich, Ryan Rosenkrantz, and Cody Stockton, who are all juniors.
November 17, 2017
Rhodes’ Robert Shankman '80 Receives Regional Coach of the Year Honors, Cross Country Headed to Nationals
The veteran Lynx coach is the 2017 NCAA Division III Men’s Cross Country South/Southeast Region Coach of the Year.
November 15, 2017
Jane Eskildsen and Reagan Alley Gain Museum Experience Through On-Campus Art Fellowship
This summer, art fellows Jane Eskildsen ’19 and Reagan Alley ’18, with visual resources curator Rosie Meindl, began the work of bringing the Jessie L. Clough Art Memorial for Teaching at Rhodes into the digital age.
November 14, 2017
Rhodes Mock Trial Team Wins Mid-South Invitational
Rhodes C mock trial team brought home the giant gavel after winning this year’s Mid-South Invitational held Nov. 10-11 at Middle Tennessee State University.
November 14, 2017
Kappa Delta Pi, International Honor Society in Education Chapter Established at Rhodes College
On Oct. 19, 2017, Rhodes College established the Alpha Iota Gamma Chapter of Kappa Delta Pi (KDP), an international honor society that recognizes and promotes excellence in education. Twenty-five students were inducted in a ceremony conducted by Rhodes educational studies faculty and KDP executive council member Dr. Clinton Smith of the University of Tennessee at Martin.
November 08, 2017
Public History Interns Make History Accessible to Broad Audiences and Help Create Community Conversations
Rowdy Kowalik ’19 has worked at the National Civil Rights Museum and Ruth Scott ’18 at the Dixon Gallery & Gardens. Three interns helped research material for a Memphis Heritage Inc. guide recently published.
November 03, 2017
Phoebe Sharp, Matthew Huber, Emily Sanders Win Awards at Biomedical Research Conference
Their research took top honors in the chemistry and physics categories.
November 02, 2017
Math Plus Improv Equals the Perfect Mix for Austin Barringer ’19
Austin Barringer ’19, a math major from Danville, KY, brings something different to the table when it comes to Rhodes College’s improvisational comedy troupe, Contents Under Pressure (CUP). Out of the 14 students in CUP, he’s the only one pursuing a STEM major.
November 01, 2017