National and global news about Rhodes students and alums

Rhodes alumna Annie Herman, who oversees campus and communities recruitment for the Americas at Dow Jones and The Wall Street Journal, has given advice for snagging an internship this summer to Teen Vogue. 

In 2006, Wigginton included Ali  in his book, The Strange Career of the Black Athlete, which draws on sports to discuss the history of race relations in America.

Kimberly Macharia walked the red carpet of the Cannes Film Festival in France. 

With final exams over and spring courses done, 12 Rhodes international studies majors recently took a career immersion trip May 22-29.

Cierra Martin grew up in rural Mississippi, so the opportunity to live in Memphis was a big draw when choosing to attend Rhodes. Moving spurred her interest in something she had grown up with all along. 

Xinran Andy Chen’s paper on the emergence of  Hong Kong’s Occupy Central Movement is the lead article in the Virginia Review of Asian Studies. Chen graduated from Rhodes in 2015 with a B.A. in economics and international studies. 

Hope Elliott ’18, an environmental science major from Waterloo, IL, has received an Ernest F. Hollings Undergraduate Scholarship, awarded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).  

Rhodes alumna Mimi Dunn is the recipient of the competitive James Madison Memorial Fellowship, which provides for graduate study leading to a master’s degree in American history, political science, or government.

As a 2011 Rhodes Institute for Regional Studies fellow, Dunn researched the 1957 integration of Central High School in Little Rock, AR. She graduated in 2013 with a B.A. in history.

International Studies Professor Jennifer Dabbs Sciubba recently spoke at the Atlantic Council’s Global Strategy Forum in Washington, D.C.  She discussed “Demographic Change in the 21st Century.” Her talk can be viewed here, in the first video starting at minute 31. 

Rhodes senior Emily Hayward has been accepted into a nationally competitive Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP).