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Peculiar Preview

Alumni News From Kenyon News - 9 years ago

Ransom Riggs ’01, author of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children and its sequel, Hollow City, is completing his best-selling young-adult series with a third book, Library of Souls, set for release Sept. 22. A preview of the book can be found in the paperback edition of Hollow City, hitting shelves Feb. 24. Book three continues to follow the adventures of Jacob and Emma — peculiar children who boast supernatural powers — on their quest to save Miss Peregrine. The excerpt offers a peek at the…

Unsung Heroes

By Sean Decatur

That's So Kenyon From Kenyon News - 9 years ago

The past few weeks have brought typical (but never entirely welcome) winter weather to our campus.  In response, our maintenance staff has worked to keep sidewalks and parking lots clear, as well as handle unexpected issues with furnaces and heat across campus. Campus Safety has helped by shuttling community members who have mobility challenges around campus, and that’s especially important under these conditions. And, when faced with winter storm warnings and law enforcement admonitions about road…

A Move to Main Street

General Kenyon From Kenyon News - 9 years ago

The Buckeye Candy building will have new life as an extension of Kenyon in downtown Mount Vernon, spurred by grants from the Ariel Foundation and pending final approval by the Kenyon College Board of Trustees in April. Kenyon will invest in the purchase and renovation of the three-story building at 400 S. Main St. The Community Foundation of Mount Vernon & Knox County also is supporting the project. The 18,000-square-foot building is now owned by Mark Ramser, a Knox County businessman and community…

Poetic Promise

Arts & Culture From The Kenyon Review - 9 years ago

Caitlin Chan, a sophomore at Bergen County Academies in Hackensack, New Jersey, took first place in this year’s Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers, presented by the Kenyon Review. Chan’s poem “Tlingit Farewell; Glacier Bay, 1966” was selected by Review Associate Editor Natalie Shapero from nearly 900 submissions. The runners-up are Gavin Murtha, a sophomore at Northern Highlands Regional High School in Allendale, New Jersey, for his poem “I Spent a Lot of Time in There,” and Emily Zhang…

Clarity of Vision

Arts & Culture From Kenyon News - 9 years ago

With a portfolio that combines her interests in art and data, Audrey Nation ’15 is the first Kenyon student to become a finalist for the Award of Excellence in the Visual Arts, hosted by the Association of Independent Colleges and Universities of Ohio (AICUO).  Nation, a double major in studio art and economics from Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, was nominated for the competition by Associate Professor of Art Read Baldwin ’84. “Audrey has a precision and clarity of vision that is quite exceptional…

Fulbright Leader

Kenyon in the World From Kenyon in the News - 9 years ago

For the 11th consecutive year, Kenyon has been recognized as a top producer of winners of the J. William Fulbright Fellowship among liberal arts institutions. Among U.S. baccalaureate institutions, the College tied for 10th in the number of Fulbright winners it produced for 2014-15, according to a report published on Feb. 12 in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Six graduates in the Class of 2014 and a member of the Class of 2013 are spending a year abroad teaching as Fulbright fellows. The College's…

Professing an Opinion

General Kenyon From Kenyon News - 9 years ago

Scholar and poet Steven Salaita, a former associate professor of English at Virginia Tech University, will be on campus Thursday, Feb. 12, to discuss “Palestine, Civility and Academic Freedom” at 7 p.m. in Higley Hall auditorium. He also will conduct a talk titled “Palestine in Native Poetry” in Peirce Lounge at 11:10 a.m. Salaita recently became the center of a controversy when the University of Illinois rescinded a job offer to him after deeming some of his tweets were anti-Semitic. The situation…

Bridging Disciplines

Arts & Culture From Kenyon News - 9 years ago

Working toward a reunion of science and prose, the Kenyon Review commences the “Writers on Writing” lecture series Thursday, Feb. 12, at 4:10 p.m. in the Cheever Room of the Finn House. The series opens with Professor of Biology Chris Gillen presenting his book, Hidden Mechanics of Exercise. The series, featuring one speaker a semester, will focus on the connections among creative writing and  other academic fields, beginning with the genre of scientific writing. “I would say that scientific writing…

Believing in 'Boyhood'

Alumni News From Kenyon News - 9 years ago

Photo by Matt Furman The idea of watching a boy grow up from five to 18 years old within the context of a two-hour film appealed to Jonathan Sehring ’78 when it was pitched to him by director Richard Linklater. Since agreeing to produce the film 12 years ago, the president of Sundance Selects and IFC Films has seen Boyhood evolve from a concept to a critically acclaimed final product. After winning top honors at the Golden Globe Awards, Boyhood was nominated for six Academy Awards, including best…

Trustees Approve Operating Budget

General Kenyon From Kenyon News - 9 years ago

Increases in financial aid, tuition and fees, and employee wages are included in the 2015-16 fiscal year operating budget of $134,471,000 approved by the Kenyon College Board of Trustees last week in New York City. The budget’s bottom line is a boost of 4.62 percent from 2014-15. Meetings over two days included working-group discussions on Kenyon 2020, the developing strategic plan guided by President Sean Decatur and based on conversations with hundreds of alumni, faculty, parents, staff and students…

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