National and global news about Rhodes students and alums

Cary Fowler ’71, vice chair of the Rhodes Board of Trustees, was featured on CBS’ “Sunday Morning” April 2 about the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway.

Four Rhodes students recently represented the college at the annual convention of Eta Sigma Phi, the national honorary society for classical studies.

Beginning in June 2016, senior Jay Hedges began working under Rob Thompson ’99 as a member of a momentous community effort to restore a historic church in downtown Memphis.

Rhodes alums Mark Sellers ’15 and Katie Hatstat ’16 were awarded National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships this year. 

This semester, junior business major Victoria Norris writes about studying in Dublin, Ireland, and her latest entry is below

Sadie Yanckello was recently profiled in Memphis' Daily News, where she discussed her job as exhibitions and programming coordinator at Crosstown Arts in Memphis.

Rhodes College A team won this past weekend’s Memphis opening round of the National Championship Tournament held at the D’Army Bailey Courthouse and sponsored by the American Mock Trial Association.

Tyler Harvey, a senior urban studies major, has been named a Watson Fellow, a prestigious designation that includes a stipend for travel and study abroad for 2017-18.

Junior Renn Eason claimed Rhodes College track & field's first ever individual national championship by winning the high jump. 

Rhodes History Professor Dee Garceau produced and directed a documentary film about powwow dancing in the intermountain West, over a seven-year period from 2009 to 2016.