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Four Rhodes employees— Sara Harris, Kate Collier, Melissa Campbell, and Elisha Vego—were recognized with the college’s 2024 Outstanding Staff Awards at the annual Service Recognition Brunch held May 14.
A book by Dr. Sarah Ifft Decker, assistant professor of history at Rhodes College, has been recognized with the La corónica International Book Award for best monograph on medieval Iberian literatures, languages, and cultures.
Dr. Cary Fowler ’71, the U.S. Special Envoy for Global Food Security, has been named a 2024 World Food Prize Laureate.
Gaduating seniors Blair Kinsey, Mia-Miracle Craig, and Oliver Hurst received awards. Professor of Music William Skoog, and Brian Foshee, who recently retired as director of physical plant, also received awards.
Rhodes College seniors Lucia Berkey, Riley Damiano, Piper Huddleston, and Gwen Williams have been selected to receive Fulbright U.S. Student Awards for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Six graduating seniors’ portraits are being added to Rhodes College’s Hall of Fame on the second floor of Southwestern Hall. They are Asya Bray, Sam Frank, Oliver Hurst, Claire Kiernan, Hailey Smith, and Justin Thompson.
The 175th Commencement of Rhodes College will be held Saturday, May 11, at 8:30 a.m. in the Hubert F. Fisher Memorial Garden on campus.
Cali VanCleve, a Rhodes College sophomore majoring in international studies and Russian, is one of 20 students selected as a Key into Public Service Scholar by The Phi Beta Kappa Society.

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Senior studio art major Alice Malone had her video titled Mask featured at the West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival held April 18-21. Karl Erickson, assistant professor of art at Rhodes, also participated.