National and global news about Rhodes students and alums

Rhodes chemistry major Kayla Wilson ’17 has been sailing across the Atlantic Ocean with other upper-level science students on a state-of-the-art oceanographic research vessel.

This past summer, Kelsey Sweeney ’17 accomplished a goal she set in her first year at Rhodes: to study Chinese in China.

Brooks Lamb, a senior history major from Chapel Hill, TN, is a finalist for the 2017 Rhodes Scholarship, the oldest and most celebrated international fellowship award in the world.

Dr. Charles L. Hughes, director of Rhodes’ Memphis Center, has been awarded a Certificate of Merit by the Association for Recorded Sound Collections for his book.

Annual awards were presented at Rhodes’ Alumni Convocation on Oct. 29 during Homecoming/Reunion Weekend. W.J. Michael Cody from the Class of 1958 received the Distinguished Alumni Award; Aubrey Howard from the Class of 1972, the Black Student Association’s Distinguished Alumni Award; and Larrie Del Daniel Martin from the Class of 1966, the Distinguished Service Award.

Distinguished Alumni Award 

Chemistry research students and physics research students presented their research at the Arkansas INBRE Research Conference in Fayetteville, AR, Oct. 21-22.

This past summer, senior Sam Hilley worked as an intern for the Solar Foundation in Washington, D.C., a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to increasing solar energy use throughout the U.S.

Dr. Charles Hughes recently appeared on The Road to Now podcast to discuss his research on the history of music in the studio towns of Memphis, Nashville, and Muscle Shoals.

Rhodes alumnus Andrew Roskos-Ewoldsen has published his international studies senior seminar paper written at Rhodes in the Seoul National University Journal of International Affairs.

Chemistry alumnus Winn Decker ’15 recently introduced Vice President Joe Biden to a group of members of the It’s On Us campaign.