U.S.Army Air Forces 2nd Lt. Martin F. O’Callaghan, Jr., a member of the Class of 1944, was killed during World War II. Listed as missing in action for more than seven decades, his remains were finally identified this year and are being returned to his family for a service and burial with full military honors on Nov. 5.
The Rhodes Department of Theatre is teaming up with the University of Memphis and Southwest Tennessee Community College to produce “NottageFest,” a three-show festival dedicated to two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage.
Pumpkins are carved and designed by teams made up of students and faculty members. Participants are required to base their design on the topics and themes they examine in their research.
McCoy’s 38th season includes three plays, along with four events ranging from shows by the Rhodes Theatre Guild to the 14th Annual Memphis Children’s Theatre Festival. The next performance is “Fabulation Or, The Re-Education of Undine” running Nov. 9-10 and 15-18.
Dr. Russell Wigginton, vice president of student life and dean of students at Rhodes, is one of 25 leaders nationwide recently named a Fall 2018 Pahara-Aspen Education Fellow by the Pahara and Aspen Institutes.
Tyler Lefevor, a counselor-presenter-researcher and assistant professor of psychology at Rhodes will have research published in an upcoming issue of The Counseling Psychologist. Titled “Initial Distress and Therapeutic Outcomes Among Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming People of Color,” it is co-authored by Rhodes alum Alexis Franklin ’18 and student William-Michael Stone ’19.
The October 2018 issue features a roundtable of seven essays on “Rethinking Anti-Semitism” edited by Prof. Judaken, who is the Spence L. Wilson Chair in the Humanities at Rhodes.
She has been conducting research on generational differences—from Traditionalists to Millennials—in the workplace that could help managers as they design jobs, recruit employees, and foster career development.
Dr. Joy Brooke Fairfield, assistant professor of theatre, stars in the ensemble cast of LIZZIE: The Musical with New Moon Theatre Company through Oct. 28.
The rock musical is based off the story of Lizzie Borden, a woman accused of the brutal axe murders of her father and stepmother in Massachusetts in the late 1800s. Borden, who was the prime suspect in the murders, was tried in the case, which gained national media attention, and was eventually acquitted.