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Dr. Jennifer Dabbs Sciubba, associate professor of international studies at Rhodes, has been invited to join the prestigious Council on Foreign Relations as a five-year term member. CFR is a highly-selective organization with 4,900 members world-wide, including Madeleine Albright, Bill Clinton, Dan Rather, and Condoleeza Rice. The organization also is the publisher of Foreign Affairs magazine.

Claire Shapiro, director of human resources at Rhodes, made the cover of the July 2016 issue of HR Professionals Magazine. The issue highlights her 22 years at the college as well as her service to the community. Read the article here. 

Olivia Gacka ’17, who has designed her own theatre-sociology degree program, recently delivered a paper at the 2016 conference of the International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR) in Stockholm, Sweden. Gacka’s paper, titled “Between Church and Stage,” proposed new ideas about how the activities of theatre audiences and religious congregations can be correlated. 

Rhodes College is included in the 2017 edition of Fiske Guide to Colleges, a top-rated resource for the country’s “best and most interesting schools.”

Compiled by former New York Times education editor Edward B. Fiske, the guide assesses institutions on a broad range of subjects including academics, campus setting, extracurricular activities, and financial aid. Rhodes has been included before. 

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Twenty-five talented high school students from all over the country staged final mock trials on campus June 25 after participating in Rhodes College’s first Mock Trial Academy.

Rhodes graduates who apply to medical school are accepted at a much higher rate than the national average.

Annika Gage ’16 of Ann Arbor, MI, recently learned she is a 2016-2017 recipient of the William J. Clinton Fellowship for Service in India.