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Seven Rhodes College students presented research at the annual meeting for the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, held Jan. 3-5 in Atlanta, GA.
Dr. Beck Henriksen, visiting assistant professor of religious studies at Rhodes College, is one of 12 participants who have been selected for the 2025 Sacred Writes: Public Scholarship on Religion program.
Rhodes College is among “50 Best Liberal Arts Colleges in the United States for International Students 2025” published by Study Abroad Aide. Is it the only college in Tennessee that made the list.
The Rhodes College chapter of the Society of Physics Students (SPS) has been named the recipient of the 2024-25 Chapter Research Award from the SPS National Office for final work on Rhodes’ 1U cube satellite RHOK-SAT to be launched in space this year.
Johnathan Burch, a sophomore political science major from Charlotte, NC, has been selected for the 2025 Douglass-O’Connell Global Internship. He will work in Ireland this summer.
Eric Mathews, entrepreneur-in-residence at Rhodes and a member of the Rhodes Class of 2002, is among winners of the 12th annual Innovation Awards presented by Memphis Magazine. He is chief executive officer of Memphis-based start-up incubator Start Co.
Rhodes College sent a delegation of 10 members to the Tennessee Intercollegiate State Legislature’s (TISL) 55th General Assembly held Nov. 21-24 in Nashville, and two students won individual awards.
Keith Adams ’25 had his heart set on conducting undergraduate research from the outset of his college search—and from fruit fly genetics to environmental field study to infectious disease, the biology major and chemistry minor has fulfilled this goal.
Bailey Santos, a senior educational studies major from Dallas, TX, presented “Bilingual Books to Promote Language and Biliteracy Learning” with Prof. Laura Beth Kelly at the Literacy Research Association conference held Dec. 4-7 in Atlanta.
Caroline Calogero, who is from New Orleans, LA, and graduated from Rhodes College in May 2024, is the recipient of a Fulbright U.S. Student Award for the 2024-2025 academic year.