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Artistic Intervention

Arts & Culture From Kenyon News - 10 years ago

A series of yield signs in different languages near Rosse Hall. A hammock suspended near Olin and Chalmers libraries. A house-shaped box hanging outside the Church of the Holy Spirit. These are the first assignments for Professor of Art Claudia Esslinger’s art installation class. The assignment is called “Intervention” and is meant to disrupt, in a way, daily life. “It doesn’t have to be political,” Esslinger said, though some of the projects are. “It can be about the senses or observations.” Seven…

Cosmology Matters

Science & Technology From Kenyon News - 10 years ago

Not many professors can say that their students are immersed in research aimed at “the most important outstanding problems about the nature of reality.” But that’s no exaggeration for Tom Giblin, associate professor of physics, whose cosmology students use cutting-edge techniques in computational physics to fashion simulations probing how matter and energy interact in their most basic forms. With powerful software that was developed at Kenyon, student researchers are creating models that may yield…

Criminal Mind

Society & Politics From Kenyon News - 10 years ago

Amelia Li ’15 has always had an academic interest in incarceration, but her passion for the subject was crystalized this August by a tour of the famous island prison Alcatraz. “Being able to see it for myself makes me confirm that, ‘Oh my gosh, I’m just so fascinated by this,’ ” Li said. Li spent most of the summer at Kenyon as a scholar in the John W. Adams Summer Scholars Program in Socio-Legal Studies, exploring the impact of incarceration on families. From Aug. 16-19, Li was in San Francisco…

Politics and Poetry

Society & Politics From Kenyon News - 10 years ago

Dissident Iranian philosopher Abdolkarim Soroush will discuss “Reason, Freedom and Democracy in Islam” on Monday, Sept. 29, at 7 p.m. in the Community Foundation Theater in Gund Gallery. Soroush also will host a conversation on Tuesday, Sept. 30, at 11:10 a.m. in the Community Foundation Theater on “Rumi: Prophet of Love.” Soroush will share his thoughts on Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi, the 13th-century Persian poet. Soroush was a supporter of Iran’s 1979 revolution but in 1995 was banned from publishing…

Honoring Generations

Alumni News From Kenyon News - 10 years ago

Alumni are returning to Gambier Sept. 25-28 to celebrate the 45th anniversary of the Black Student Union (BSU) at Kenyon. Like many others who will be coming back to campus, James Greenwood ’02 remembers the BSU as an essential part of his college experience. “The BSU was such an important part of my time at Kenyon and my development as a young adult,” he recalled. “The connections and friendships I made in the group are still some of the closest relationships in my life.”   “One of the most significant…

Cooking with Care

by McKenna Trimble '18

That's So Kenyon From The Collegian - 10 years ago

When you sit down at a checkered cloth-covered table ready to plunge your spoon into Friday Cafe’s gourmet chickpea soup, you probably don’t know that one woman behind the cafe gained her knowledge of cooking from her birthplace, England. There she earned a degree in hotel and catering management, completed cooking school and ran two restaurants. This woman is Victoria Baumann, wife of Professor of Political Science Fred Baumann, who runs the Cafe alongside Joyce Klein, wife of Professor Emeritus…

Shining Work

Arts & Culture From Kenyon News - 10 years ago

Anna Sun, associate professor of sociology and Asian and Middle East studies, received the 2014 Best Book Award for her work, Confucianism as a World Religion: Contested Histories and Contemporary Realities. The award, given by the American Sociological Association, honors a book that makes an outstanding contribution to the sociology of religion. In addition, the book was also named Best First Book in the History of Religion, given by the American Academy of Religion. Sun said the book took more…

Models of Growth

Science & Technology From Kenyon News - 10 years ago

On the surface, the two research papers Associate Professor of Biology Drew Kerkhoff published this summer in high-impact journals have only the broadest similarities: They’re both studies of forests. But underneath, the papers have much in common in how they were accomplished. Both involved analyzing huge amounts of data, and both were made possible by a year-long sabbatical. The paper Kerkhoff co-authored with Pam Moriarty ’11 (now at the University of Washington) and Mike Weiser from the University…

In Suspense

Arts & Culture From Kenyon News - 10 years ago

A sullied college quarterback turned private investigator and a stolen laptop with a potentially embarrassing video set the stage for a debut novel by Andrew Welsh-Huggins ’83. Fourth Down and Out (Ohio University Press) is available at the College Bookstore, and on Saturday, Sept. 27 at 2 p.m., Welsh-Huggins will be on hand to sign the book. Fourth Down and Out, which is set in Columbus, Ohio, was called “an entertaining, easy-to-read tale worthy of Robert B. Parker” by the Columbus Dispatch. Publisher…

Winning Numbers

Science & Technology From Kenyon News - 10 years ago

Lila Greco ’15 was named one of the best student presenters at the annual Mathfest conference held Aug. 6-8 in Portland, Ore. The mathematics major from Westlake, Ohio, was one of 14 undergraduate speakers to receive the recognition and a $150 prize from the Pi Mu Epsilon national mathematics honorary society. “I felt deeply honored to receive the award,” Greco said. “I wasn’t expecting anything going in. I just wanted to give the best presentation I could, so I practiced in front of other Kenyon…

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