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Bud Richey, associate vice president for external programs at Rhodes, received the 2016 SPARK Award for "Leader of the Year" at a ceremony aired on WKNO-TV on Dec. 12.

On Nov. 5, 2016, Prof. Miriam Clinton of the Department of Art and Art History spoke at a conference in Athens on "New Approaches and Paradigms in Greek Architecture."

Rhodes trustee and alumnus Cary Fowler ’71 has been in town signing copies of his new book, Seeds on Ice: Svalbard and the Global Seed Vault.

Rhodes College today announced the appointment of Marjorie Hass as its 20th president following a unanimous vote by the Board of Trustees.

Senior Korey Henkle is finding new ways to help others through his internship with the Community Legal Center (CLC), which was established in 1994 and is located in downtown Memphis.

Dr. Angi Bourgeois, head of the Department of Art at Mississippi State University, is among 52 selected as 2016-17 Southeastern Conference Academic (SEC) Leadership Development Program Fellows.

Rhodes students recently presented their geographic information system (GIS) research projects at the Mid-South GIS Conference held Nov. 16 and 17 in Memphis. Samantha Ramsey ’17 (pictured; environmental science and French double major) won the annual GIS scholarship for her presentation, “Bottled Water Economics in Washington State.”

In a process unique to art majors and minors, Senior Seminar students recently had the first of two formal, and very public, critiques of their work at the Evergreen Art Studios. Visiting critics included Memphis artist Terry Lynn and Patricia Lee Daigle, assistant professor of art history at the University of Memphis and director of the Martha and Robert Fogelman Galleries of Contemporary Art. Rhodes art and art history faculty also joined the students for the critique.

The Rhodes Engineering Club is excited to announce it will participate in the Student Design Build Fly Competition, sponsored by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Spring 2017.