News & Events
1/15/10 | Jackson's New Book Tells the Story of a Parisian Catastrophe
One hundred years ago this month, the city of Paris was under water. A new book by Rhodes College history professor Jeffrey H. Jackson, titled Paris Under Water: How the City of Light Survived the Great Flood of 1910 tells the largely forgotten story of how the French capital survived its worst flood in 250 years. A website, www.ParisUnderWater.com accompanies the release of Jackson's book filled with dozens of dramatic photographs of the city's suffering. Read more here.
1/12/10 | Environmental Studies Program Recognizes Daniel Eastlack
The first student travel support from the Environmental Studies program was awarded to Daniel Eastlack, for conference attendance and presentation of research conducted on amphibian disease in urban Memphis.
11/30/09 | Student Workers Meet GIS Professionals
Two Rhodes Student Associates, Andy Foss-Grant ’10 and Becky Vandewalle ’12, recently got some on-the-job training by attending a MAGIC conference. Foss-Grant and Vandewalle accompanied Professor Sarah Boyle to the 9th Annual Mid-South GIS (Geographic Information Systems) Conference on November 17 and 18 in Germantown. Visit the Dean′s Blog to read the complete article.
11/23/09 | Rhodes in Midst of Arboretum Re-Certification
Recently, volunteers from the Memphis Botanic Garden visited Rhodes to flag and identify the major species of trees on campus. In just three hours, the volunteers flagged 52 different species. This identification process is necessary in order to re-certify Rhodes as an arboretum—an area in which an extensive variety of trees are grown for educational and ornamental purposes. Read the full story here.
11/20/09 | Sunday Bike Rides
The Rhodes Environmental Planning Cooperative is sponsoring Sunday afternoon bicycle rides around the Memphis community. The group assembles outside the Rhodes bike shop every Sunday afternoon and travel to locations in the Midtown area. For more information, click the above link to read the entire article.
11/1/09 | Sciubba receives the prestigious Kiley Award for Best Feature Article
Prof. Sciubba received the 2009 Kiley Award from the National Defense University Foundation for her article, "The Defense Implications of Demographic Trends,” which appeared in Joint Force Quarterly.
11/4/09 | "The Upside of Down"
Patrick Harris′ article "The Upside of Down" appeared in the November 4th edition of the Sou′wester. Harris writes on Dr. Thomas Homer-Dixon′s recent lecture on "The Upside of own: Leveraging Catastrophe for Positive Change". Click the above link to read the article in its entirety.
10/16/09 | Mississippi River Adventure with the Quapaw Canoe Company
Students in the Environmental Studies Learning Community, along with Profs. Davis, Houghton, and Keller, spent Fall Break on a journey through some of the wildest & remote islands & forests of the Lower Mississippi. Participants explored great back channels and oxbow lakes, relaxed on sandy beaches, and enjoyed the delicious cuisine provided by John Ruskey and his crew. With no towns or industry nearby, the only evidence of civilization is the tugboats on the river.
10/12/09 | Energy and Security Expert Thomas Homer-Dixon: Leveraging Catastrophe for Positive Change
Dr. Thomas Homer-Dixon, political scientist and energy/security expert, will present The Upside of Down: Leveraging Catastrophe for Positive Change. Free and open to the public, the lecture begins at 7 p.m. in the BCLC Ballroom and will be followed by a book signing. Homer-Dixon calls attention to environmental and societal stresses such as global warming, oil consumption, the 9/11 attacks, and the collapse of economic markets to help audiences understand how events in one place cause effects around the planet. He also shares ways to adapt and prosper in a world of ever-greater complexity. For his lecture at Rhodes, he has been asked to address some of the issues specific to Memphis.
6/11/09 | Sciubba to present at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies
Prof. Sciubba will present “Population Aging and Power Transition Theory” to the faculty of the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies, in Garmisch, Germany.
6/4/09 | Sciubba to lecture at Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski Krakow University
Prof. Sciubba will deliver a series of lectures on Population in Military Planning on June 3-4 at the Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski Krakow University in Krakow, Poland.
5/1/09 | Announcement: URCAS Award winners
Best paper in Environmental Studies: Derek Washam, "Eco-Authoritarianism: The Commons and its Need for Technocracy"
Best poster in Environmental Studies: Jacqueline Gentry and Sarah Rogers, "Determining efficient energy usage in Barret Library through cost-benefit research"
4/22/09 | Keller receives prestigious grant to study the Alps
Prof. Keller received a research grant from the Conference Group for Central European History. He plans to explore the environmental history of the Eastern Alps in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by examining national Alpine clubs in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Italy.
04/1/09 | Keller publishes in leading environmental history journal
Prof. Keller article, “The Mountains Roar: The Alps during the Great War,” appeared in the April 2009 issue of Environmental History. The article sheds light on the relationship between the environment and war by examining the role the Alps played for Germans and Austrians in the First World War. The Alps shaped perceptions of the war and the Germans and Austrians who fought there. The war transformed in crucial ways how Germans and Austrians conceived of the mountains. As the result of the Great War, the Alps, once the realm of escape and freedom, now also provided a foundation for national fantasies of conquest and victory.
2/12/09 | Darwin Day Celebration
Film: Galapagos: The Islands that Changed the World
6:30-8:00, FJ-C
Join the Anthropology/Sociology Dept.’s Prof. Lusteck for this fascinating film about some of the world’s most beautiful and pristine islands. ANSO will provide food and drinks.
1/27/09 | Keller to speak at the National World War One Memorial Museum
Prof. Keller will deliver a lecture at the National World War One Memorial Museum. The museum’s program theme is “Bodies and Minds.” Keller will speak on “Battling the Mountains of Melancholy: Bodies and Minds on the Alpine Front, 1915-1918.”
12/2008 | Launch of Rhodes Environmental Footprint Site
Mellon Environmental Fellow and Anthropology professor Rob Lusteck′s students put together a site to help Rhodes students, staff, faculty, and friends determine their environmental footprint. Check it out here
11/11/2008 | Environmental Studies Kickoff Celebration
Environmental crusaders and writers Mark London, Thomas E. Lovejoy and Charles C. Mann will be on hand at Rhodes College November 11 for an all-day celebration of the college’s newly expanded Environmental Studies Program. Read more about this event.
10/27/2008 | Speaker: Molly Caldwell Crosby
Molly Caldwell Crosby, author of The American Plague and Rhodes alum, spoke with Prof. Sciubba’s Global Ecopolitics class.
10/24/2008 | Environmental Studies featured in Rhodes Magazine
The fall 2008 edition of Rhodes includes an in-depth examination of the new Environmental Studies Program, as well as a Web-only extra story about related courses being offered this fall.