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Rhodes alumna Mimi Dunn is the recipient of the competitive James Madison Memorial Fellowship, which provides for graduate study leading to a master’s degree in American history, political science, or government.
As a 2011 Rhodes Institute for Regional Studies fellow, Dunn researched the 1957 integration of Central High School in Little Rock, AR. She graduated in 2013 with a B.A. in history.
International Studies Professor Jennifer Dabbs Sciubba recently spoke at the Atlantic Council’s Global Strategy Forum in Washington, D.C. She discussed “Demographic Change in the 21st Century.” Her talk can be viewed here, in the first video starting at minute 31.
Annual awards were presented at the 167th Commencement Exercises of Rhodes College on May 14 on campus. Rhodes graduate Heting Hommy Zhu was awarded the Peyton Nalle Rhodes Phi Beta Kappa Prize, the college’s highest academic honor, and James Allen Boone, Jr. ’71, vice president for finance and business affairs, received the Rhodes College Distinguished Service Medal.
Savvy readers will recall way back to our fall issue when Kathryn Anderson ’87 inquired about a tasty sandwich served in the Lynx Pub.
Outside Barret Library, a light layer of white covered the Rhodes campus. Inside Barret 051, a cavernous space typically reserved for group meetings, teams of students huddled together, heads down, diligently working on laptops.
Rhodes senior Emily Hayward has been accepted into a nationally competitive Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP).
Five days a week, Rhodes senior Jessica Ramey heads over to Promise Academy, an elementary charter school in Memphis’ Hollywood neighborhood, to assist first-grade students with their daily lessons.