There are 158 article(s) tagged Rhodes College:

• December 2018

  • 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.

    By John Varlas December 17, 2018

  • 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.

    By Elle Perry December 17, 2018

• October 2018

  • 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.

    By Elle Perry October 31, 2018

  • 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.

    By Elle Perry October 31, 2018

  • 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.

    By Bill Dries October 15, 2018

  • 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.

    By Elle Perry October 12, 2018

• September 2018

  • 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.

    By Bill Dries September 17, 2018

  • 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?

    By Michael Nelson September 16, 2018