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Day of Dialogue

General Kenyon From Kenyon News - 5 years ago

Kenyon’s annual celebration of Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy on Jan. 21 featured a keynote address by Leslie M. Harris, professor of history at Northwestern University. Events began at 3 p.m. in Rosse Hall, and Monday’s class schedule was adjusted to allow students and faculty to attend. Harris is a prominent scholar in the field of African American history, with research interests including pre-Civil War African American labor and social history, slavery in the U.S., and African American women…

Radio Star

Arts & Culture From Kenyon News - 5 years ago

Where do colors come from? What makes someone a hero? What would a world without words be like? As creator and co-host of the popular public radio show “Radiolab,” Jad Abumrad has explored these questions and more. He brings his insatiable curiosity to Kenyon on Saturday, Jan. 26, for a 7:30 p.m. address in Rosse Hall. Abumrad has made a career of investigating perplexing questions about science and humanity through an innovative storytelling approach. With “Radiolab,” he mixes interviews, music…

A Delicious Return

General Kenyon From Kenyon News - 5 years ago

President Sean Decatur was one of dozens of people to check out the Gambier Deli menu when the restaurant reopened January 3. He was relieved to find #63, “Bacon, Anyone?” “It was excellent. That was my usual, and it’s nice to see that my usual is still here,” Decatur said. “It was also nice to see such a good crowd on opening day.” The deli suspended operations for more than a year as part of a multi-phase project in downtown Gambier that has renovated the Kenyon College Bookstore, moved the Village…

‘Not a Mile’

By Andrew Grace ’01

Kenyon in the World From Alumni Bulletin - 5 years ago

I wrote the poem “Not a Mile,” which appeared in the New Yorker last April, soon after attending a community meeting in Danville, Ohio, about the opioid crisis. Author Sam Quinones, who wrote the excellent book on this subject titled “Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic,” Skyped in from Tijuana to describe to the audience how black tar heroin made in rural Mexico makes its way into rural Ohio. A Knox County police officer told us how he recently responded to a call at a house party…

A Look Back at 2018

General Kenyon From Kenyon News - 5 years ago

As another year draws to a close and Kenyon students, faculty and alumni prepare to dive into 2019, it’s time to take a look back at what made 2018 a memorable year both on and off the Hill. Here are the top-10 most-read stories published on Kenyon.edu in the past year. 10. Joyful Reading — Dec. 5, 2018 Members of the Kenyon community grasping for a last-minute holiday gift turned to the recommendations from our friends at the Kenyon Review. Editors and staff of the historic literary journal hand…

Probing Podcast

Science & Technology From Kenyon News - 5 years ago

Until she was 12, Sarah Jean McPeek ’19 did not want to be a human. The Enfield, New Hampshire, native was more interested in the hopping, prowling, flying world of animals. For most of her childhood, she wanted to become one. McPeek has by now accepted her opposable thumbs, using them to pursue her passions of practicing and communicating science. A biology major at Kenyon, McPeek studies bird flight with Assistant Professor of Biology Natalie Wright, writes a nature column for the Kenyon Thrill…

The Value of Facebook

Society & Politics From Kenyon News - 5 years ago

How valuable is Facebook to its users, and how can you measure the value of the site when access is free? Professor of Economics Jay Corrigan and other researchers pooled their work and expertise to assess Facebook’s value to its users, in contrast to its market value or its contribution to gross domestic product. Using a series of auctions – in which people were actually paid to close their accounts for as little as one day or as long as one year – the project found that Facebook users would require…

Kenyon Newsmakers

Alumni News From Kenyon News - 5 years ago

In 2018, millions of people watched as Allison Janney ’82 ascended the Oscars stage (above), while novelist and pop culture icon John Green ’00 remained in the press seemingly every week. But other Kenyon alumni also shaped our world in unexpected ways, either in the headlines or behind the scenes. Here are 10 Kenyon newsmakers worth your attention. Allison Janney Although her list of awards and nominations is long enough to merit its own separate Wikipedia page, it was only this year that Allison…

Studio Showcase

Arts & Culture From Kenyon News - 5 years ago

Each December, senior studio art majors invite members of the campus community into their Horvitz Hall studios for a chance to see their work in progress — projects that will be further developed and refined before culminating at the spring exhibition. Nearly two dozen students majors displayed their work at this year's Open Studio: Leah Adekunle-Raji, Kaylin Allshouse, Audrey Avril, Olivia Biel, Cat Carroll, Sarah Dendy, Jacqueline Dicks, Oscar Dow, Emily Fritze, Sarah Gaglione, Ali Georgescu,…

Beyond the Classroom

Student Life From Kenyon News - 5 years ago

Standout students Masen Colucci ’19, a film major from Bloomingdale, Illinois, and George Goldman ’20, a political science major from Sharon, Massachusetts, have earned this semester’s Franklin Miller Awards for taking their coursework beyond the classroom in extraordinary fashion. The award, established by Edward T. “Chip” Ordman ’64 in honor of the late Professor Emeritus of Physics Franklin Miller Jr. H’81, recognizes students whose academic efforts and ingenuity have made a difference in the…

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