National and global news about Rhodes students and alums

“The Paris high water of 2016 was the worst in more than 30 years, but it came nowhere close to the historic and disastrous levels of the city’s 1910 flood, when the Seine reached more than 20 feet above its normal height,” according to Dr. Jeffrey H. Jackson, associate professor of history at Rhodes. 

Dr. Jennifer Dabbs Sciubba, associate professor of international studies at Rhodes, has been invited to join the prestigious Council on Foreign Relations as a five-year term member. CFR is a highly-selective organization with 4,900 members world-wide, including Madeleine Albright, Bill Clinton, Dan Rather, and Condoleeza Rice. The organization also is the publisher of Foreign Affairs magazine.

Claire Shapiro, director of human resources at Rhodes, made the cover of the July 2016 issue of HR Professionals Magazine. The issue highlights her 22 years at the college as well as her service to the community. Read the article here. 

Olivia Gacka ’17, who has designed her own theatre-sociology degree program, recently delivered a paper at the 2016 conference of the International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR) in Stockholm, Sweden. Gacka’s paper, titled “Between Church and Stage,” proposed new ideas about how the activities of theatre audiences and religious congregations can be correlated. 

Rhodes graduates who apply to medical school are accepted at a much higher rate than the national average.

Annika Gage ’16 of Ann Arbor, MI, recently learned she is a 2016-2017 recipient of the William J. Clinton Fellowship for Service in India.
 

Dr. Herbert Hill ’67, who was a chemistry major at Rhodes,  has spent more than four decades pioneering ways to detect chemical signatures based on the movement of a substance’s component ions.

Prof. Michael Nelson of the Department of Political Science writes on various subjects including the American Presidency, English composition, sports, music, history, and sociology. His latest article in The Weekly Standard focuses on the spread of legalized casino gambling. Read it here. 

Charles Walker graduated from Rhodes in 2014 and is working as a registered nurse at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital.

Dr. Shadrack W. Nasong’o, of Rhodes’ Department of International Studies, is editor of the new book Contentious Politics in Africa: Identity, Conflict, and Social Change.