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Topic: Rhodes College
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October 2019
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Rhodes receives $900,000 from Mellon Foundation
Rhodes will use the money across disciplines to look at health care access and equity.
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Rhodes professors will discuss slavery, aftermath 400 years after 1619
Rhodes College hosting panel discussion on slavery on October 21.
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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer to speak at Rhodes College
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer will deliver Rhodes College’s annual Constitution Day lecture on Thursday, Oct. 3.
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September 2019
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New CBU president says outreach to ‘Dreamers’ will continue
On “Behind The Headlines,” Rhodes College president Marjorie Hass said the school is recruiting students nationally as the number of high school students in the southeastern U.S. is projected to drop.
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Memphis-born singer Vera Little: From Manassas High to the Vatican
The home of the blues was also home to mezzo-soprano Vera Little, a pioneering artist with a commanding voice who was the first African American singer to perform for a pope.
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August 2019
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Nelson: Jack arrived, Anthony stayed. They launched a startup that’s changing physics education
Positive Physics reaches about 13,000 students a year in 50 states and 76 countries. Memphis teacher Jack Replinger writes the problems. Memphis computer scientist Anthony Fizer maintains the site.
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July 2019
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Rhodes faculty members join Office of Academic Affairs
Three Rhodes College faculty members, Tim Huebner, Natalie Person, and Amy Jasperson, have joined the Office of Academic Affairs.
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June 2019
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Conaway: A Memphian’s real-life adventure serial
Richard Halliburton wrote a steamer trunk of bestsellers and syndicated articles, but to call him merely an author would be like calling Indiana Jones merely an anthropologist. And while Indy’s unbelievable fictional adventures are just that, Halliburton’s unbelievable adventures were real.
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May 2019
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Run, hide, fight: Local colleges, universities bolster security as campus shootings persist
As school shootings continue to occur in America, local colleges and universities are investing in equipment, training and counseling services to take every measure against a shooting on their campuses.
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Calkins: Rhodes professor (and Memphis!) have a horse at the Preakness
Warrior's Charge is not your typical Preakness entry. Because his owners are from Memphis.
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April 2019
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Nelson: How to fight recidivism with great books
The parole board was blown away when a woman who had spent 25 years behind bars, and who was a member of the great books group at West Tennessee State Penitentiary, quoted Herodotus in answer to a question about how she now defined success.
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Eighty years after his death, Richard Halliburton finds new life in fiction
Richard Halliburton, a Memphis adventure travel writer from a past era, has turned up in a new series of spy novels as himself. The author researched Halliburton's life and his journals at the Rhodes College Halliburton archives.
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March 2019
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The Weekly Memphian: Emerging Memphis Designer Project, ‘The Art of the SCAR,’ ‘The Juniper Tree’ and Bon Iver
The Weekly Memphian is a partial guide to things happening in Memphis, recommended by Daily Memphian staff. This guide covers March 27-April 2.
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February 2019
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Planning and Zoning 101 reveals code quirks
Josh Whitehead discusses the evolution of planning and development in Memphis on The Daily Memphian Politics podcast.
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December 2018
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Don Lear, legendary area football coach, dies
Don Lear, who spent 40 years coaching high school and college football in Memphis, died Saturday following an extended illness. -
Tech901 course helps Rhodes College employee grow in career
With a $250 class – and hard work – Kimberly Wamble was able to grow her salary by 20 percent.
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October 2018
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Rhodes, Southwest, U of M theater programs team up for ‘NottageFest’
Last year, a graduating senior at Rhodes College was directing scenes from Lynn Nottage’s “Fabulation or, The Re-Education of Undine,” for her final project in the directing class. -
This Week in Books: Memphis Afrofuturism, Southern Living Party Cookbook, Battle for Bonhoeffer
Afrofuturism is more than black science fiction or simply an aesthetic, says Memphis-based author Troy L. Wiggins. -
Rhodes Democratic and Republican leaders push issues
When Jess Gaughan spoke last month at the start of an aborted debate that became a forum for Democratic Senate nominee Phil Bredesen at Rhodes College, the leader of Rhodes' Democrats didn’t get the same attention she might have. -
PRIZM Ensemble starts workshop to help local students audition for college programs
Four years after Lecolion and Carina Washington founded PRIZM Ensemble in Memphis, the organization launched the PRIZM Music Camp & International Chamber Music Festival. In 2013, PRIZM launched its after-school mentoring program, PRIZM in the Schools, and in 2015 it began OMusic Project, which serves Orange Mound.
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September 2018
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Bredesen defends his wait-and-see stance on Supreme Court nominee Kavanaugh
Democratic U.S. Senate contender Phil Bredesen met a crowd of 500 at Rhodes College Thursday, Sept. 13, that consisted mostly of supporters on what was originally planned as a debate with Republican rival Marsha Blackburn. Blackburn would not commit to the debate. -
Author appearing Monday urges free speech – even on college campuses
“Liberal science” is one of those terms that sort of makes sense after somebody takes 10 minutes to explain it but seems baffling on first hearing. Is it an oxymoron – science isn’t supposed to be ideological, right? Or is it, as conservatives might fear, science from the left end of the political spectrum?
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