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Jacob Sullivan (Student - Rhodes College) interviewing Chris Peterson (Farm Manager -Alpha Omega Veteran Farm) and Becca Hart (Community Garden Organizer - Alpha Omega Veteran Farm)
Francesca Healy (Student - Rhodes College) interviewing Dwight Fryer (Entrepreneur, Farmer and Independent Researcher), Debra Lockard (Farmer -Lockard Produce) and Brenda Williams (Healthy Foods Coordinator - Communities Unlimited)
Dr. Patrick Shade, associate professor of philosophy at Rhodes College, is the author of the book Habits of Hope. His teaching and research interests include medical ethics, care ethics, the history of philosophy, and philosophy of education.
Rhodes College will not require prospective students to submit SAT or ACT test scores for the classes entering the Fall of 2021, Fall of 2022, and Fall of 2023. The college is conducting a three-year test optional pilot project in light of the COVID-19 situation and cancellation of College Board and ACT test dates this spring.
The world feels at once startingly close, yet also more remote. As we’re all exposed to the same global danger, we’re able to stay closer across distance than we ever could have before.
Maleelo Shamambo, a neuroscience major and French minor at Rhodes College, is one of only 47 college seniors nationwide to receive the Thomas J. Watson Fellowship, which provides a $36,000 grant for one year of independent study and travel outside the United States after graduation. Her project is titled “Pills and Potions: Indigenous Knowledge in Modern Medicine,” and she seeks to explore how different communities integrate traditional knowledge systems into modern science and medicine while charting the traditional and scientific value of indigenous medicinal plant specimens.