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New Arrivals

General Kenyon From Kenyon News - 4 years ago

Seven new tenure-track faculty have joined the Kenyon community for the 2020-2021 academic year. Additionally, two endowed professorships have new incumbents. New Tenure-Track Faculty HILLARY BUXTON Assistant Professor of History 2018 — Doctor of Philosophy from Rutgers University2011 — Bachelor of Arts from Smith College Hilary Buxton is a historian of modern imperial Britain, with emphases on the history of medicine, race, gender and disability in the 19th and 20th centuries. Buxton’s…

A Subtle Transformation

Alumni News From Alumni Bulletin - 4 years ago

"It’s a strange time to be on a trip,” Stephanie Danler ’06 said when I reached her by phone on a Friday afternoon in March. She was in Hawaii with her husband and their toddler son, Julian. “We got here before things turned,” she added, referring, of course, to the COVID-19 pandemic that was beginning to spread like wildfire on the mainland. Otherwise, they would have canceled. She had briefly stepped away from her family (which is about to grow larger when she gives birth to a second child this…

August Return

General Kenyon From Kenyon News - 4 years ago

As Kenyon faculty continue their planning for a fall with a mix of in-person and remote instruction, they are drawing on the lessons learned in the crunch of spring and finding new ways to create traditional Kenyon academic excellence for students studying at home. In just one example, members of the physics department have been devising ways to bring labs into living rooms by preparing to ship boxes of the equipment and materials needed for two physics electronics modules, including a brand new…

Keeping Gambier Connected

Alumni News From Alumni Bulletin - 4 years ago

In addition to being the Village of Gambier’s newly elected mayor, having begun his four-year term in January 2020, Leeman Kessler ’04 is known across the internet for his “Ask Lovecraft” web series, in which he impersonates the early 20th-century American supernatural cosmic horror writer H.P. Lovecraft. He spoke to the Kenyon Alumni Magazine from his Gambier home, which he shares with Chaplain and Harcourt Parish Priest-in-Charge Rachel Kessler ’04; their two children, Amanda (6) and Martin (2…

Support for International Students

By Sean Decatur

General Kenyon From Kenyon News - 4 years ago

President Decatur shared the following message with Kenyon students and employees via email on Wednesday, July 8. Dear members of the Kenyon College community, On Monday, the Student and Exchange Visitor Program, which authorizes U.S. schools to enroll international students, released preliminary guidance regarding the fall 2020 term. Ted Mitchell, the president of the American Council on Education, has called this guidance “horrifying,” providing “confusion and complexity rather than certainty…

Postgrad Scholar

Athletics From Kenyon News - 4 years ago

Four-year Lords basketball forward Carter Powell ’20 will embark on his post-Kenyon career with an assist from a prestigious NCAA postgraduate scholarship. Selected from a pool that spans all three NCAA divisions, each scholarship winner receives a one-time, non-renewable grant of $10,000 for use in an accredited graduate program. A maximum of only 126 scholarships are available each year, divided equally between competitors in men’s and women’s fall, winter and spring sports. The scholarships are…

50 Years of Kenyon Women: Susan Berger ’85

Kenyon Women From Kenyon News - 4 years ago

To celebrate 50 years of coeducation at Kenyon, we’re profiling three dozen of Kenyon alumnae during the 2019-20 academic year. These women, merely a small sample of the thousands of female graduates who have earned Kenyon degrees since 1969, will discuss their undergraduate experiences and how their education in Gambier prepared them for their lives and careers. The 36th and final alumna in our series is Susan Berger ’85. Berger lives in Cleveland, where she is the chief external relations officer…

Provoke, Inform, Educate

Arts & Culture From The Kenyon Review - 4 years ago

The Kenyon Review had planned this month to offer its annual list of books recommended for summer pleasure. But, as protests over the killing of George Floyd have continued amid an encouraging chorus in support of the Black Lives Matter movement, the Review decided that this was not the moment to recommend books for casual reading. Instead, editors and friends of the Kenyon Review have offered a revised list of books that may provoke, inform and educate. David Lynn ’76, Editor Louise Erdrich…

Kenyon Remembers Andrew Niemiec

General Kenyon From Kenyon News - 4 years ago

Andrew J. Niemiec, chair and associate professor of neuroscience at Kenyon, died at the age of 58 on Wednesday, June 17, 2020. He had suffered a cerebral hemorrhage a few days earlier, after which he had been transported by air ambulance from Mount Vernon to the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center in Columbus.   “Andy was a passionate teacher, dedicated to his students and his discipline,” said President Sean M. Decatur. “He will be sorely missed.” Niemiec earned his bachelor’s, master…

Writing Coronavirus

That's So Kenyon From Kenyon News - 4 years ago

When Ohio shut down midway through Kenyon’s spring break, everything changed, including the syllabus for English 404: “Science Writing.” Professor of English David Lynn and Professor of Biology Bob Mauck asked their 13 students to write a story in 300 words about their own experiences with COVID-19. The caveat? Science should play no role in the story. The writers then were asked to research the science behind the pandemic and return to their drafts, this time layering in depth and tension by adding…

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