In 1994, the Mertie W. Buckman International Internship Program was initiated to provide outstanding international studies majors at Rhodes opportunities to work outside the US during the summer months. Rhodes is proud to announce the 2017 Mertie Buckman Interns, who are all juniors this year
Rhodes trustee and alumnus Cary Fowler ’71 has been in town signing copies of his new book, Seeds on Ice: Svalbard and the Global Seed Vault.
Dr. Angi Bourgeois, head of the Department of Art at Mississippi State University, is among 52 selected as 2016-17 Southeastern Conference Academic (SEC) Leadership Development Program Fellows.
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.