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Dr. Marjorie Hass will be formally installed as the 20th president of Rhodes College on Saturday, Jan. 13, 2018. The Rhodes community, invited guests, and the media are welcome to attend inauguration weekend.

Rhodes College’s Postgraduate Scholarship Committee is endorsing three juniors to compete for the prestigious Truman Scholarship for 2018. They are Spencer Beckman, Dylan Craddock, and Anne Healy.

The overall list includes public, private, and liberal arts colleges and is based on academic quality as well as cost and financial-aid measures.

Editors and reporters across the USA Today Network-Tennessee, which includes The Commercial Appeal, selected 18 people to watch in 2018.

The competitive program accepts applications only through participating universities and offers one-year fellowships to uniquely qualified graduating seniors. Finalists will receive notifications in March 2018.

Adrian Winchester ’18 presented a paper titled "The Millennial Generation’s Impact on Revolutionary Movements and the Middle East: An Expansion on Juan Cole’s The Young Arabs" at the Association of Global South Studies Conference held Dec. 14-16 in Marrakesh, Morocco. An international studies major, Winchester was able to travel to the conference thanks to financial support from Rhodes. 

She specializes in medieval Spanish literature and culture, with an emphasis on its relationship to other European literatures.

Chanelle Benz joins the Department of English as an assistant professor. She received an MFA in fiction from the Creative Writing Program at Syracuse University. Dr. Benz’s short story collection, The Man Who Shot Out My Eye Is Dead, was published this past January by Ecco Press, and she has a novel forthcoming in 2019 entitled The Gone Dead.