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Mary Phan ’18
An economics and art history double major, Mary Phan combines her academic and personal passions to strengthen the local arts community. As a Clarence Day Scholar at Rhodes, she serves as an outreach liaison between students and institutions such as Opera Memphis, the Dixon Gallery and Gardens, and the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art.
Palmer Cat’s not the only one seeing strange creatures on campus—Pokémon are everywhere! Pokémon Go allows players to capture, battle, and train virtual Pokémon who appear throughout the real world, but it’s tricky. To help out, we’ve gathered some helpful hints to take your Pokémon Go skills on campus to the next level.
1. Visit the Refectory—the Rat is apparently popular with both people and Pokémon.
What is the value of a Maymester course? Quite a lot, according to the research of one educator/participant.
Sumner Magruder ’16, a neuroscience/biomathematics/computer science bridge major, received a grant from the Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds (BIF) travel award program to conduct research at the University of Gottingen, Germany. BIF is an independent, non-profit organization that supports up-and-coming junior scientists and promotes basic research in biomedicine.
When Angelle Henkelmann ’18 chose the American Red Cross of the Mid-South in Memphis for her Rhodes Summer Service Fellowship, she didn’t expect to end up in West Virginia. But when a devastating flood hit the state in June and the call went out for volunteers, she answered.
Robert Wallace of the Red Cross Mid-South chapter related the story on the chapter’s Facebook page:
Forbes released its annual top college list July 6, and Rhodes made the “Top 25 Colleges in the South 2016.” Rhodes also is listed in the top 100 out of the 660 undergraduate institutions in the nation that were ranked.
Rhodes rising junior Ellie Fratt is a 2016 recipient of the B.A. Rudolph Foundation’s STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) Scholarship, which is making it possible for her this summer to continue previous research conducted at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
“The Paris high water of 2016 was the worst in more than 30 years, but it came nowhere close to the historic and disastrous levels of the city’s 1910 flood, when the Seine reached more than 20 feet above its normal height,” according to Dr. Jeffrey H. Jackson, associate professor of history at Rhodes.