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50 Years of Kenyon Women: Leslie Martin ’14

Kenyon Women From Kenyon News - 5 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 19th alumna in our series is Leslie Martin ’14, a senior program officer at the National Democratic Institute in Washington, D.C.…

Breaking the Frame

Arts & Culture From Kenyon News - 5 years ago

Most visitors to art museums expect to walk slowly through a succession of galleries, quietly viewing a series of works presented in orderly rows. Meanwhile, most audience members sitting down for a musical theater performance expect an hours-long song and dance extravaganza. A new project at Kenyon’s Gund Gallery subverts both of those expectations. Called “Unframed,” the series of four original mini-musicals reimagines the narratives embedded in works from the gallery’s permanent collection in…

Making Waves

Science & Technology From Kenyon News - 5 years ago

Thomas Greenslade H’02 P’87,’89 may have retired from Kenyon’s physics department in 2005, but you wouldn’t know it by how much time he still spends affirming the joys of learning physics. When he’s not traveling around the country delivering lectures on oscillations, waves, and the history of physics, Greenslade keeps busy maintaining a nationally significant collection of historical physics teaching apparatus in his Gambier home. Greenslade’s lifelong energy and enthusiasm for teaching physics…

50 Years of Kenyon Women: Elisabeth Hire ’00

Kenyon Women From Kenyon News - 5 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 18th alumna in our series is Elisabeth Hire ’00. An English major from Bexley, Ohio, her career has incorporated, in Hire’s words…

Full Professors

General Kenyon From Kenyon News - 5 years ago

During its October meeting, the Academic Affairs Committee of the Kenyon College Board of Trustees approved the promotions of three faculty members to the rank of full professor. Promotions as of July 1, 2020, include: Sheryl Hemkin, Associate Provost B.A. University of Chicago; M.S. University of Illinois at Chicago;Ph.D. Purdue UniversitySheryl Hemkin, a physical chemist, joined Kenyon’s faculty in 2003 after working at Swarthmore College. She was promoted to associate professor of chemistry…

Kenyon Remembers Kristen Van Ausdall

General Kenyon From Kenyon News - 5 years ago

Kristen Van Ausdall, professor of art history at Kenyon, died Oct. 27 at Stanford University Medical Center in California. A resident until recently of Mount Vernon, Ohio, she was 68. “Kristen Van Ausdall was a model Kenyon faculty member,” said President Sean Decatur, “a dedicated mentor to her students, whether in Gambier or in the College’s program in Rome, a creative teacher in the classroom, and a supportive colleague on campus. She will be missed by us all.” A native of California, Van Ausdall…

50 Years of Kenyon Women: Hillary Child ’13

Kenyon Women From Kenyon News - 5 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 17th alumna in our series is Hillary Child ’13, originally from Coeur D’Alene, Idaho. Child majored in physics and modern languages…

An Unbroken Line

General Kenyon From Kenyon News - 5 years ago

Although it is only by a quirk of the calendar that Kenyon’s Founders’ Day ceremony fell this year on Halloween, that coincidence lent special meaning to the occasion as faculty, staff and students gathered in Rosse Hall to commemorate the unbroken line of those who have formed the Kenyon community, from those present at the College’s founding in 1824 to the newest Class of 2023. On a holiday devoted to remembrance of the dead, the newest residents of Gambier Hill were reminded of how the dedication…

Kenyon Remembers Barbara Reitsma

General Kenyon From Kenyon News - 5 years ago

Barbara Hollenbeck Reitsma, former assistant director of Kenyon’s Math and Science Skills Center, died in hospice care on Oct. 27, 2019. She was 59 and a resident of Mount Vernon, Ohio. A native of Western Pennsylvania, Reitsma was an honors chemistry graduate of Wheaton College (Illinois) with a doctorate in analytical chemistry from Iowa State University. She first came to Kenyon as an assistant professor of chemistry, serving from 1987 to 1993 before committing herself full time to raising and…

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