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Imagining the Future

Alumni News From Alumni Bulletin - 9 years ago

Greg Rosenbaum ’10 likely isn’t the first Kenyon graduate to leave Gambier without a precise game plan. A music major who grew up in Silver Spring, Md., Rosenbaum spent the summer after graduation leading backpacking trips in Wyoming before moving to Austin, Texas — a city known for its indie music scene. He figured he’d play some guitar, make some recordings, and a path would emerge. If nothing else, he’d learn something. Shortly after moving to Austin, Rosenbaum met Hugh Forrest ’84, the interactive…

Days of Dialogue

Society & Politics From Kenyon News - 9 years ago

About the homepage photo: Fifty years ago, Kenyon students joined Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Selma march to Montgomery, Ala., and took this photo of King. On Monday, Jan. 19, Kenyon will alter its class schedule to allow students, faculty and staff to attend events in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. But the celebration, “Days of Dialogue: A Single Garment of Destiny,” has moved beyond a single day to encompass almost a full week of activities. This year’s programming focuses on public health…

Remembering Selma

Kenyon in the World From Kenyon News - 9 years ago

Student photo from the Kenyon Collegian Fifty years ago, on March 21, 1965, five Kenyon students participated in Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s march from Selma to Montgomery, Ala., witnessing what would become an historical civil rights campaign to secure equal voting rights. Three students—Walter R. Butler ’68, Breece McKinney ’68 and Stuart Revo ’68—were driving back from Daytona Beach, Fla., when they decided to stop in Montgomery to watch the last leg of the 50-mile march. They were joined by…

Lab Partners

Science & Technology From Kenyon News - 9 years ago

Long hours in the laboratory last summer paid off for Maggie Koenecke ’15, a molecular biology major from Dallas, and Scott Freeburg ’16, a biology major from Memphis, Tenn., who will present research papers at the Society of Toxicology Annual Meeting in San Diego in March. The two were among just 14 undergraduates nationwide to receive a Pfizer Undergraduate Travel Award that pays for conference lodging and transportation. “Just getting accepted to the conference was great news, but to receive…

Publishing Power

Arts & Culture From Kenyon News - 9 years ago

Each year, the Kenyon Review selects a crew of “associates,” students to help read hundreds of unsolicited manuscripts for possible inclusion in the world-renowned literary journal. This year, the magazine recruited 62 associates, up from 50 last year. In addition, the Review hired 13 student interns, who are paid to do the same work in addition to managing social media, festivals and writing programs. “We ended up with a bigger group than last year, partly because we had a record number of returning…

Enemy on Exhibit

Arts & Culture From Kenyon News - 9 years ago

While the battle for Europe and Asia in World War II raged in steel and mud, a different battle of paper and ink was being fought in America. This battle is illustrated in a special exhibit, “This is the Enemy: Describing Nazi Aggression in Text and Image,” which is on display in the Greenslade Special Collections and Archives in Olin and Chalmers Libraries until March 25. Austin Porter, a visiting assistant professor in the history, art history and American studies departments, organized the exhibit…

Student Affairs VP Named

General Kenyon From Kenyon News - 9 years ago

Meredith Harper Bonham ’92, senior associate dean of students for strategic initiatives and Title IX coordinator at Hamilton College, joins Kenyon as vice president for student affairs on July 1, 2015. President Sean Decatur announced the selection of Bonham after a national search. Bonham has served Hamilton in a number of roles across divisions since 1993. Hamilton is a highly selective, residential liberal arts college in Clinton, N.Y., with an enrollment of 1,850. “Meredith has a strong record…

Year on the Page

Arts & Culture From Kenyon News - 10 years ago

Kenyon people are book people. So what better way to usher out 2014 at kenyon.edu than by calling attention to some of the notable Kenyon books that appeared during the year? Dan Laskin, who edits the book section for the Alumni Bulletin, chose a dozen books—by Kenyon alumni as well as faculty members—that especially intrigued him in 2014. Fiction and Poetry Andrew’s Brain, by E.L. Doctorow ’52 (Random House). The narrator of Doctorow’s latest novel is a cognitive scientist—a self-described “freakishly…

5 Things to Do After You’ve Submitted Your Kenyon Application

By Ross Bronfenbrenner

That's So Kenyon From Kenyon News - 10 years ago

This one is for the thousands (!) of you who have already submitted your Kenyon application. Congratulations to all of you! As I’m sure your life is just overflowing with free time, here are a few friendly suggestions for things you can do now that your application is all done. 1. That thing you didn’t do You know that thing that you wanted to do? The one you didn’t even start because commonapp.org loomed over every aspect of your life? The one you regretfully postponed to prioritize over editing…

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