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Black Box Named

Arts & Culture From Kenyon News - 6 years ago

Generations of alumni have contributed to name Kenyon’s black box theater for Harlene Marley H’05, the legendary drama professor who was a pioneer for women at Kenyon. The Harlene Marley Theater, located on Gaskin Avenue near the North Campus Apartments and Bexley Hall, will be formally dedicated as part of events celebrating the 50th anniversary of co-education at Kenyon, in 2019. “The naming of the building only starts to express the importance of Harlene Marley to the campus and the influence…

New Roles

General Kenyon From Kenyon News - 6 years ago

Jan Thomas, senior associate provost at Kenyon, has been named senior advisor for community relations, effective Sept. 1. In her new role, Thomas will lead Kenyon’s efforts to grow its partnerships with community organizations, area leaders and state and federal officials. “Building the capacity to connect and collaborate with our neighbors is vital both to Kenyon’s academic mission, and to our civic responsibility. Jan is an ideal partner for this work,” President Sean Decatur said. “She has long…

Free Wheeling, Free Thinking

By Sean Decatur

That's So Kenyon From Kenyon News - 6 years ago

Last Saturday, I rode in the 10th annual Pelotonia, a bike ride benefiting the James Comprehensive Cancer Center at the Ohio State University. For the past seven years, Kenyon has hosted the first-day finish line for the event’s longer routes. Thousands of cyclists make their way from Columbus to Gambier, and many spend the night before tackling a second day of riding early the next morning. Each rider raises funds from family and friends, with 100 percent of the money raised going to support research…

Prize-Winning Poet

Arts & Culture From The Kenyon Review - 6 years ago

The Kenyon Review has selected poet Rita Dove as the winner of the 2018 Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement. Winner of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize and poet laureate of the United States from 1993-1995, Dove is the only poet to have received both the National Humanities Medal and the National Medal of Arts. Dove will accept the Kenyon Review award at a gala benefit dinner in New York City on Nov. 7. She will then travel to Gambier to present the Denham Sutcliffe Memorial Lecture at the annual…

Fresh Start

Athletics From Kenyon News - 6 years ago

Kenyon student-athletes returning to Gambier for the 2018-19 academic year will find two new practice fields, new synthetic turf at the baseball field and improvements to Kenyon Athletic Center (KAC) facilities. Last season, the Lords baseball team secured the program’s first appearance in the North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) tournament since 2012. The team will be able to log more practice time this fall because McCloskey Field will be better suited to handle Ohio’s variable weather. By September…

Making Networking Less Awkward

Alumni News From Alumni Bulletin - 6 years ago

Q. Networking seems really awkward to me, even though I know it’s important. What’s the etiquette for reaching out to alumni?— Carolyn Ten Eyck ’18, Bulletin intern and an English major and music minor from the Boston area A. Networking is hugely important, which is something I didn’t learn until my 30s. I would recommend that you start building your network right now. The people you go to college with, if you stay in touch with them, they’re going to be hugely influential in the kinds of opportunities…

Shifting Into High Gear

General Kenyon From Kenyon News - 6 years ago

Thousands of bicycles zipped across a finish line in front of the Kenyon Athletic Center on Saturday, Aug. 4, when Kenyon served as the terminus for Pelotonia for the seventh straight year. The massive charity bike ride dedicated to raising funds for cancer research has raised over $15 million so far this year and, since the first event in 2009, has generated over $171 million for the Ohio State University’s James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute, commonly known as the James. Since…

Close Collaboration

Science & Technology From Kenyon News - 6 years ago

On a summer day in Kenyon’s Tomsich Hall, Margo Goldfarb ’20 was chasing down information on an enzyme related to the vitamin B5 biosynthetic pathway. Her quest was crucial to her research project with Associate Professor of Chemistry Kerry Rouhier, exploring how plants synthesize the amino acid beta-alanine — but she quickly hit a roadblock. “I’m searching on all the databases, and I finally found what I was looking for. I go to search for the literature that’s out there on this topic to try to…

From Notebooks to Neckties

By Christopher Paludi '20

Kenyon in the World From Kenyon News - 6 years ago

It’s hard to believe, but I’m halfway through college. By now, I’m accustomed to thinking of summer not as a vacation, but as its own semester, an opportunity to learn about the working world. On my commute I sometimes check social media and see folks on holiday, but I’m not the poolside type. I know that if I were there, I would rather be here: enrolled in “Professional World 101,” interning at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), a nonpartisan think tank in Washington, D.C. Midway through summer…

KEEP Moves Forward

General Kenyon From Kenyon News - 6 years ago

A decade of student success in the Kenyon Educational Enrichment Program (KEEP) has now garnered some philanthropic support. KEEP is an intensive academic experience that gives incoming Kenyon students from under-represented populations early coursework and connects them with peers and mentors. “I love the commitment that these students show,” said Donna Bertolet Poseidon ’75, a member of the Kenyon College Board of Trustees. She has contributed permanent funding to provide one student with a…

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