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Dr. Leslie Petty, professor of English and the T.K. Young Chair of English Literature, has co-edited a new book titled Voices and Visions: Essays on New Orleans's Literary History (University Press of Mississippi).
Megan Starling, director of admission at Rhodes and psychology alumna, received the William Starling Award for Mentoring at the annual conference of the Southern Association for College Admission Counseling held March 30-31 in Atlanta.
Dana Potter, a junior psychology major and Nolan Colladay, a senior business major, presented research at the 40th annual Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology Conference, which was held April 2-5.
Dr. Miriam Clinton, associate professor of art and art history and the L. Palmer Brown Chair of Interdisciplinary Humanities, has been named one of nine Associated Colleges of the South (ACS) Mellon Academic Leadership Fellows.
Julie Gehrki, an alumna of Rhodes College and president of the Walmart Foundation and senior vice president of philanthropy at Walmart, will receive the 2025 Luminary Award presented by the Algernon Sydney Sullivan Foundation.
Maya Khalife-Hamdan, a senior with a double majoring in international studies and Spanish, presented a poster of her Honors project in international studies at the 82nd Annual Midwest Political Science Association Conference held in Chicago April 3-6.
Rhodes senior Eleanor Ellsworth represented her research group in March at the ASIANetwork 2025 Annual Conference and presented results from their project titled “Asian Foodways in Memphis: Reasons for Rebrands.”
Members of the Rhodes community celebrated the many paths that lead students to Rhodes and into their futures. Rhodes Giving Day was held April 2-3, and the campaign received 1,210 gifts and raised $236,490.
Rhodes students traveled to Washington, D.C., in March to discuss their undergraduate research with U.S. senators and representatives as part of the Students Transforming Through Research Advocacy Program.
The Spence Wilson Center for Interdisciplinary Humanities a will host a conversation with Dr. Shelly Lowe, former chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities on April 24.