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General Kenyon From Kenyon News - 5 years ago

The following is the prepared text of the address delivered by Professor of Mathematics Judy Holdener to the Class of 2019 at the Baccalaureate service on May 17, 2019. Thank you, President Decatur, for those kind words, and thank you, Class of 2019, for inviting me to be your Baccalaureate speaker today. I am thrilled to have this opportunity to share in the celebration of your success, because you are truly an inspiring group of people, and I imagine I can speak for everyone on this stage when…

Six Questions With Wynton Marsalis

Arts & Culture From Kenyon News - 5 years ago

On Saturday, May 18, musician, composer and all-around jazz legend Wynton Marsalis will address the Class of 2019 at Kenyon’s 191st Commencement. Before his arrival in Gambier, we talked to Marsalis about his career, the importance of music education, and how a life full of music can have a positive impact for individuals and communities. You performed at Kenyon in 1991. What do you remember from that visit, and how do you feel about returning to Gambier to deliver this year’s Commencement address?…

Early Endorsement

Science & Technology From Kenyon News - 5 years ago

When Anu Muppirala ’19 and her fellow senior neuroscience majors were tasked with writing a research grant last fall for their senior exercise, Muppirala didn’t sweat the assignment. She enjoyed writing about her scientific work, a zeal ignited by a junior-year science-writing course and fueled through Lyceum, a science literary journal she co-founded this year with Graham Ball ’21, Miriam Hyman ’21 and Sarah Jean McPeek ’19. Plus, Muppirala reasoned, this senior exercise would help her and her classmates…

Cafe Society

That's So Kenyon From Alumni Bulletin - 5 years ago

Note: The following story was originally published in the Fall 2011 issue of the Alumni Bulletin. On May 10, 2019, a special Friday Cafe was held in memory of S. Joyce Klein, who passed away on Feb. 4, 2019. At the time, she was living in Maine, where she and her husband, Professor of English Emeritus Bill Klein H’16, and their children, Thomas Klein ’90, Anna Klein-Christie ’93 and Michael Klein ’99, had spent their summers for many years. All profits from the special Friday Cafe, as well as additional…

Better for Bees

Kenyon in the World From Kenyon News - 5 years ago

Kenyon has become the 67th educational institution in the nation and the second in Ohio to be certified as an affiliate of the Bee Campus USA program, designed to marshal the strengths of educational campuses for the benefit of pollinators. Kenyon joins more than a hundred other cities and campuses across the country united in improving their landscapes for pollinators. As part of its involvement in the Bee Campus USA program, Kenyon will host programming to educate students, employees and the broader…

Standout Students

Student Life From Kenyon News - 5 years ago

Although some mathematicians might not see the value in translating a 15th-century Arabic textbook, Ghada Bakbouk ’19, a math major from Damascus, Syria, knows that studying the origins of concepts can illuminate how they’ve developed in modern times. “It’s like having an old calculator and a new calculator,” she said. “I’m going to always use the new calculator, but there is definitely some benefit to knowing how this new calculator was made, or how it was designed, by looking at the older one.…

Truth Teller

General Kenyon From Kenyon News - 5 years ago

When Professor of Mathematics Judy Holdener stands before seniors at 1:30 p.m. Friday, May 17, she won’t be there to lecture about number theory or the finer points of linear algebra. Rather, she will share a few words of advice with graduating members of the Class of 2019 at this year’s Baccalaureate ceremony, held on Samuel Mather lawn. “I have a great deal of respect for the Class of 2019, so I am incredibly honored that they have chosen me to be their speaker. Academically, I find them to be…

Footloose and Fancy Free

Arts & Culture From Kenyon News - 5 years ago

Kenyon’s Department of Dance, Drama and Film will present attendees of its annual Spring Dance Concert with a special treat: a historical staging from score of a Jerome Robbins dance as originally performed in the 1945 Broadway production of “Billion Dollar Baby.” The concert, held May 2–4 at 8 p.m. in the Bolton Theater, showcases Robbins’ energetic “Charleston Ballet,” a performance which has been in the works among Kenyon dancers for nearly a year. The piece, based on 1920s themes and dance styles…

Tenure Awarded

General Kenyon From Kenyon News - 5 years ago

Seven members of the Kenyon faculty were awarded tenure, or appointment without limit, by action of the Board of Trustees during its meeting in Gambier on April 26. These faculty members are promoted to associate professor, effective July 1: Patrick Bottiger, assistant professor of history B.A. St. John’s University; M.A. University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire; Ph.D. University of Oklahoma Patrick Bottiger joined the history faculty in 2013. His teaching interests include the American history…

Seniors on Display

Arts & Culture From Kenyon News - 5 years ago

Through her artwork, Rosa Rumora ’19 aims to “explore the act of making and its ability to expose systems of energy that exist between two- and three-dimensional space.” Her large-scale sculptural installation “Displacement” consists of three parts, each approximately 10 feet by 6 feet, made of hundreds of repetitively linked short pieces of wire that create “an infinity of small, irregular, cellular forms.” Rumora, from Baltimore, Ohio, is one of 20 studio art majors to display their work in the…

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