Four Rhodes employees recently received the college’s 2014 Outstanding Staff Awards based on nominations submitted by faculty, staff and students.

The college will pay tribute to staff with a brunch on May 15 in the McCallum Ballroom.

The Lynx baseball team was among the 56 teams announced Sunday to compete in the 2014 NCAA Division III Baseball Championship May 14-18.

Annual awards were presented at the 165th Commencement exercises of Rhodes College on May 10 on campus. Rhodes graduate Benjamin Evans was awarded the Peyton Nalle Rhodes Phi Beta Kappa Prize, the college’s highest academic honor, and Phillip H. McNeill, founder and CEO of Chartwell Hospitality, received the Rhodes College Distinguished Service Medal.

Rhodes junior theatre major Léerin Campbell has been accepted to the prestigious Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London.

Rhodes alumnus Ryan Prewitt received two coveted James Beard Foundation honors at its annual awards gala held May 5 in New York City.

Rhodes junior physics majors Mark Sellers and Philip "Luke" Spinolo presented their research at “Posters on the Hill.

President Emeritus James Harold Daughdrill, Jr. passed away, Saturday, May 3, surrounded by his family.

Dr. William Evans, director and CEO of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, will deliver the Baccalaureate address and will receive the Honorary Doctor of Humanities degree at Commencement.

Rhodes alumna Katie Klein has been selected for a 2014-2015 Fulbright U.S. Student Award to Taiwan.