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Rhodes College student Hugh Ferguson ’27 and alums Liv Cohen ’23 and Raneem Imam ’20 are among the Memphis Flyer’s newly released “20 Under 30” list of individuals helping to shape Memphis’ future.
Dr. Zachary Casey, associate professor of educational studies, has published a new book titled Critical Pedagogy and the Trouble with Consciousness Raising (Routledge, 2025).
Project Pericles is a consortium of colleges and universities that promotes civic engagement within higher education, and in December, Rhodes faculty were awarded grants from the organization to promote course development.
Laura Shanahan, assistant professor of psychology and a member of the neuroscience program, along with other researchers, has published an article in The Journal of Neuroscience titled "Characterizing Olfactory Brain Responses In Young Infants."
At Rhodes, the longest-running student-led soup kitchen continues to serve those in need.
For Rhodes professors, instruction doesn’t finish when the students file out the door at the end of class. All over campus, you’ll find them engaged with students who are looking to try something new or flex their academic muscles on side projects.
The restructured organization allows students to continue flourishing in the wider Memphis community.
Kenneth Holditch, a member of the Rhodes Class of 1955 and a long-time English professor at the University of New Orleans, dedicated much of his life to studying the works of Williams.
Using images taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, Dr. David Rupke and his team have detected ionized oxygen atoms in the galactic wind of Makani that could serve as a benchmark for the next generation of NASA’s ultraviolet telescopes.