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English major Madeleine Wright ’21 is one of the Rhodes students who’s been able to continue their internship despite the disruption COVID-19 has had on so many organizations. In fact, the Davidson, NC, native has been working remotely since fall 2019 as one of the few undergraduate students on staff for Storm Literary Agency in Mound, MN, which specializes in quality children’s literature and young adult fiction ranging from dystopian novels to fantasy.
Grant Ramey, a graduate of Rhodes College with a bachelor’s degree in economics/business (2018) and a master’s degree in accounting (2019), is one of only 137 winners of the prestigious Elijah Watt Sells Award recently announced by the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA). The award recognizes outstanding performance on the Uniform CPA Examination.
Provost Milton Moreland presented this year’s academic department and program awards virtually for the 171st Student Awards Convocation on May 1. The awards were streamed live on Rhodes.edu and Facebook.
Founded in 1776, Phi Beta Kappa is America’s oldest collegiate honor society. Its campus chapters invite for induction the most outstanding liberal arts students at America’s leading colleges and universities. Fewer than one percent of U.S. college graduates are eligible.
Jazmin “Jazzy” Miller ’08 had already built up an extensive résumé of influence in the Memphis arts scene when she was named the first director of the Crosstown Theater, a state-of-the-art facility that opened in January 2019 in Crosstown Concourse.
Maggie Palopoli (Rhodes College) interviewing Gia Pirro (Rhodes College) and Tate Mulligan (Welcome Resource Center – Rhodes Graduate ’18)
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Madeleine O’Toole (Rhodes College) interviewing Heather Jamerson (275 Food Project), Diane Terrell (275 Project), Chef Tam (Chef Tam’s Underground Café) and Jesse Hewlette (The Container Café)
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This podcast is part of the Rhodes College Just Food series, which addresses food inequality through discussion of production, access, distribution, and consumption in Memphis and beyond.
Jessica Frankl, a senior educational studies and international studies double major from Foster City, CA, is the winner of a Fulbright U.S. Student Award for the 2020-2021 academic year. Depending on travel conditions in the fall, she will serve as an English Teaching Assistant in India.
When Rhodes College transitioned to remote learning, resources that we always had taken for granted—a classroom, projector, whiteboard, computers with necessary software, office space, opportunities to meet with students, and opportunities for students to meet with each other—became unavailable. Prof. Sujan Dan had to rethink and relearn how to teach his classes, engage with students, and stimulate interest in the subject.