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Poet Patricia Spears Jones, a 1973 Rhodes alumna, is the 2017 recipient of the Jackson Poetry Prize presented by Poets & Writers, a New York-based service organization for creative writers.

Ask Jenny Loome ’18 why she came to Rhodes College, and she’ll tell you one of the big reasons is the St. Jude Summer Plus Fellowship.

Olivia Muehlberger, a 2016 Rhodes alumna from Austin, TX, has been selected to receive a Fulbright U.S. Student Program grant for the 2017-2018 academic year.

Thomas Mitchell, a political science and educational studies double major from Knoxville, TN, is among those winning a Truman Scholarship. 

The 2016 Rhodes College women’s golf team has been selected to receive the 2017 Amateur Team of the Year Award presented by the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame (TSHF).

The Rhodes Summer Writing Institute, a two-week, residential program held on campus for high school students, will celebrate its 40th anniversary this summer.

Adrienne Bober, a senior environmental studies major from New Canaan, CT, has been awarded the 12-month Cary Fowler ’71 Environmental Studies Fellowship with the Crop Trust in Bonn, Germany.

With a strong computer science foundation and a grounding in the humanities, Cobb says he is well prepared to attend graduate school after graduation next spring.

Dr. David Mason, whose research involves theater and religion, tied his spring 2017 lab to McCoy Theatre’s third production, “The Rhodes Cycle.” Mason set out to introduce students to the communal staging methods used by towns during the Middle Ages to present dramatized versions of biblical events known as cycle plays.

Nathaniel Plemons, a senior history major, recently was awarded second place in the world history category for his paper delivered at the Phi Alpha Theta History honor society regional conference.