Will Cobb ’18, a computer science major, has developed an app that’s trending in the Apple App Store. 

We asked professors, recent grads, and rising seniors what advice they would give a first-year for navigating those sometimes deep waters. Here’s what they told us.

This summer, Rhodes College hosted its second annual computer-coding camp for girls aged 11 to 18. Called Camp Codette, the program is the brainchild of students Thomas Threlkeld ’15 and Haley Adams ’15, and Dr. Betsy Sanders, associate professor of mathematics and computer science.

Sumner Magruder ’16, a neuroscience/biomathematics/computer science bridge major, received a grant from the Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds (BIF) travel award program to conduct research at the University of Gottingen, Germany.  BIF is an independent, non-profit organization that supports up-and-coming junior scientists and promotes basic research in biomedicine. 

Annual awards were presented at the 167th Commencement Exercises of Rhodes College on May 14 on campus. Rhodes graduate Heting Hommy Zhu  was awarded the Peyton Nalle Rhodes Phi Beta Kappa Prize, the college’s highest academic honor, and James Allen Boone, Jr. ’71, vice president for finance and business affairs, received the Rhodes College Distinguished Service Medal.

A 2015 chemistry alumna has been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship.

Four Rhodes seniors have been selected to receive Fulbright U.S. Student Awards for the 2016-2017 academic year.

Thomas Threlkeld '16

On January 22, teams of students met in the basement of Barret Library to compete in Rhodes’ first hackathon, appropriately called RhodesHacks 0.

The ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC), sponsored by IBM, is the premiere global programming competition conducted by and for the world’s universities.