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Shaping the Digital Future

General Kenyon From Kenyon News - 6 years ago

Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Humanities Katherine Elkins has been awarded the National Endowment for the Humanities Distinguished Teaching Professorship, a three-year award effective July 1, 2018. With her professorship, Elkins will establish a digital humanities initiative at Kenyon, aimed at helping students develop into their roles as engaged citizens in a digital world. Elkins’ proposal builds on her work last year with her experimental “Programming Humanity” course, which…

Planet Crusader

Kenyon in the World From Kenyon News - 6 years ago

Professor of Biology Siobhan Fennessy, the Philip and Sheila Jordan Professor in Environmental Science, has completed her role in a three-year U.N.-sponsored study to assess the global environment.  The U.N.’s Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) awarded Fennessy its “expert” designation to serve as a lead author for a report about the status and trends of biodiversity and ecosystem services in the Americas and to collaborate as an author on another…

Standout Scholars

General Kenyon From Kenyon News - 6 years ago

Jenna Rochelle ’18, an anthropology major from Colorado Springs, Colorado, and Mustafa Aziz ’19, a philosophy major from Rawalpindi, Pakistan, have already proven their excellence in the classroom. But for these newly minted recipients of the Franklin Miller Award, the classwork is far from over. Rochelle and Aziz each plan to build upon their Kenyon education by pursuing doctorate degrees. The Franklin Miller Award is presented each semester to students whose academic efforts and ingenuity have…

Coming Full Circle

By Natalie Kane ’18

Student Life From Kenyon News - 6 years ago

A few days after Commencement, sorting through miscellaneous papers back home, I stumbled across a few of the Kenyon brochures I pored over once upon a time as a prospective student. Now, I was curious to see how these brief booklets would compare to four years of lived experience. One memorable booklet centers around the recurring phrase “At Kenyon, you will…” You’ll grow intellectually as never before. … Perhaps you’ll express yourself through dance or music or performance art. … You’ll go head-to-head…

Instant Replay

Athletics From Kenyon News - 6 years ago

From record-breaking discus throws to a national golf tournament, 2018 was an exciting year for Kenyon’s spring sports. Take a look back at six top accomplishments from this season: A culmination of steady progress over the last few years resulted in a successful 2017-18 season for the Lords golf program. Kenyon won two events, finished in the top three in six others, and sent two golfers – Ryan Muthiora ’18 and Lawrence Courtney ’21 — to the NCAA Division III Championship. Muthiora went on to…

Garland to Lead Advancement

General Kenyon From Kenyon News - 6 years ago

Colleen Garland, the chief advancement officer at Ohio Wesleyan University, joins Kenyon College as vice president for advancement on July 1, 2018. As vice president, Garland will steer the strategic direction of Kenyon’s development, alumni and parent engagement, and advancement services operations, and she will work closely with the president, fellow Senior Staff and the Board of Trustees to advance the College’s highest priorities. She will play an integral role in launching the public phase…

Return to the Hill

Alumni News From Kenyon News - 6 years ago

Just days after celebrating the College’s 190th Commencement, Kenyon welcomed back generations of alumni for Reunion Weekend, May 25-27. More than 1,300 people traveled to Gambier to attend the festivities, hailing from at least 40 states and five countries — from the United Kingdom to the United Arab Emirates — according to the Office of Alumni and Parent Engagement. This year’s event hosted class years ending in three and eight, from 1968 to 2013 (older alumni were able to gather for a Post-50th…

Think Slow

General Kenyon From Kenyon News - 6 years ago

Editor’s note: The following is the prepared text of the closing remarks titled “Think Slow With a Stayed Mind” given by President Sean Decatur to the Class of 2018, delivered on May 19, 2018. More coverage of Kenyon’s 190th Commencement can be found here. Back in 2014, the year that today’s graduating seniors arrived here on campus, a group of neuroscientists from MIT published a report on the minimum length of time required for the human mind to process information from an image: 13 milliseconds…

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