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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. 

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.