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Dr. Jonathan Fitz Gerald, associate professor of biology, has been elected to a three-year term on the Primarily Undergraduate Institutions Section Steering Committee of the American Society of Plant Biologists.
The Fulbright Program is the flagship international educational exchange program sponsored by the U.S. government and is designed to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries.
When Michael Lamb ’04 was a student at Rhodes College, he received the highly coveted Rhodes Scholarship (England) and published a book about community engagement. Now a tenured professor, he has published a book on character education.
Rhodes College is included on the list of more than 125 U.S. colleges and universities that have sent the most Fulbright U.S. Scholars and Students to study and work abroad in the 2021-2022 academic year.
Rhodes boasts a different championship culture. Rhodes Athletic Director Jim Duncan describes it as a three-legged stool: athletics, academics, and community. All three are necessary for balance.
The fellowship begins in August, and she will pursue the project titled “We the People: Population Control and the Making of the American Nation.”
The Rev. Courtney Pace is among visiting and adjunct professors who teach courses in Rhodes College’s Search program focusing on ideas, beliefs, and cultural developments that have formed Western culture.
Dr. Jennifer M. Collins took office today as the 21st president of Rhodes College. She joins the national liberal arts college after serving as the Judge James Noel Dean and professor of law at Southern Methodist University in Texas.
Rhodes College is being awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) Research grant in the amount of $639,165 to continue research performed by Professor of Chemistry Loretta Jackson-Hayes and Professor of Biology Terry Hill with students in their labs. The research explores cell growth and division of fungi and has potential to find more effective antifungal drugs.