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What you make for dinner can change your life. Hard to believe? Then listen to best-selling author and food-movement legend Michael Pollan at Rosse Hall at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 25, or join the discussion during Common Hour on Thursday, Sept. 26, at 11:10 a.m. in Peirce Hall. Pollan says the average American spends more time watching other people cook on television than actually cooking. The reliance on big corporations for prepared foods has had disastrous effects on our health, our family…

Learning in Depth

Kenyon explores 3-D printing technology.

Science & Technology From Kenyon News - 11 years ago

Printing in three dimensions can produce items from wrenches to jewelry to models of ancient masterpieces. And now, thanks to a group of faculty including Professor of Art History Sarah Blick, 3-D printing is expected to make an impact in classrooms across the curriculum. “We're at the cusp of a period where a possibly transformative technology is being popularized and made available for the everyday user,” Blick said. Blick and Associate Professor of Neuroscience Andrew Niemiec plan to demonstrate…

Making Sense of Syria

Society & Politics From Kenyon News - 11 years ago

Bombs fell in the night. Nothing new. But these bombs contained chemical weapons, killing hundreds of Syrians, including women and children. The August 21 chemical attack has prompted the U.S. to consider military action in a civil war raging since 2011 between the Bashar Assad regime and opposition forces. To help shed light on the conflict, Along Middle Path spoke with Thomas Karako, director of the Center for the Study of American Democracy and assistant professor of political science. Karako…

Most Valuable Summer

Athletics From Kenyon News - 11 years ago

One year and 62,000 words into writing his first novel, Nate Lotze ’14 is penning a page a day until he finishes a rough draft—hopefully, he says, by the end of the semester. “It would be awesome if I could finish the editing and polishing process by graduation,” he said. It is the same dedication that drove the English major and baseball player to perform double-duty this summer as an infielder for the Perfect Game Collegiate League and as an intern for Friends of Glimmerglass State Park in Cooperstown…

Top-Secret Movies, British Magazines and Sword-Fighting

Student Summer Experiences

Student Life From Kenyon News - 11 years ago

Kenyon students are back on the Hill after a summer of tackling challenging internships, engaging in volunteer work and immersing themselves in unfamiliar cultures. From designing movie sets in Chicago to teaching English in Senegal, from practicing finance on Wall Street to studying sea turtles in Greece, here is a sample of students’ experiences in the arts, business, public service and sciences. ARTS Mia Barnett ’15, set decorator, major motion picture, Paramount Pictures, Chicago Jason Cerf…

Kenyon Mourns Anne Robinson

General Kenyon From Kenyon News - 11 years ago

Anne Kilbourne Jeffrey Robinson P '81, an inseparable partner with her husband in all matters Kenyon and alumni, died Monday, September 2, in the company of her family at Kendal at Granville. Widely known as Annie, the widow of Jefferson D. “Jeff” Robinson III 1949 H '88 P '81, the former director of the Office of Alumni Affairs, was a longtime Gambier resident, a generous hostess, and the heart of a Kenyon alumni family that includes her son and three grandchildren. She was eighty-five and had…

New Life for Wetlands

Science & Technology From Kenyon News - 11 years ago

Restored wetlands on agricultural land can boost the well-being of the environment, recent research by Professor of Biology Siobhan Fennessy and others has shown. The research by Fennessy, Kenyon’s Philip and Sheila Jordan Professor in Environmental Studies, started in 2010 thanks to a grant from the federal Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS). Concerns about the increasing global use of nitrogen- and phosphorous-based fertilizers that run off of farmlands and become water pollutants spurred…

The Legacy of the March

By President Sean Decatur

Arts & Culture From Kenyon News - 11 years ago

There is a small aerial photograph of the 1963 March on Washington in my office, close to my desk. Though I literally pass the picture several times a day, every day, when I take a moment to pay attention to it, I am always awestruck: thousands of people, all races, standing beneath the imposing and majestic Lincoln Memorial, attention focused on the relatively small stage, and the young minister who was captivating the audience. The fiftieth anniversary of the March is today, August 28th. I…

Helping Hands Lift Rummage Sale

That's So Kenyon From Kenyon News - 11 years ago

The annual Harcourt Parish Rummage Sale and Boutique returns to the Gambier Community Center, 115 Meadow Lane, on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, August 29-31. The rummage sale this year has spilled outside the community center, under cover of canopies and inside a truck trailer. Proceeds from the event, which reached about $15,000 last year, benefit non-profit organizations that are part of the parish outreach project and the parish itself. About 150 people are involved as volunteers, including…

Laughing Dogs

Science & Technology From Alumni Bulletin - 11 years ago

If you've ever watched your dog race to greet you at the door when you return home from work or cock its head sheepishly after tipping over a trash can, you could easily assume that Rover is capable of feeling the same kind of happiness and guilt that you do. But Associate Professor of Neuroscience Andy Niemiec says it's not that simple. “Animals' sensory systems are different, their evolutionary history is different, and they have different problems to solve,” he says. “We can't know firsthand…

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