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Creative Contortions

Arts & Culture From Alumni Bulletin - 7 years ago

With body parts twisted into a triangle or splayed like an ostrich, instructors of a Saturday morning dance class for children have found themselves in some unusual positions. “I’ve been in every contortion imaginable,” said Pankti Dalal ’17. “The kids think it is hilarious.” Exercises often find limbs in odd placements. “I’ve been on one leg, bent over with my arms out in different positions — like a tall, gangly bird,” said Luca Agunos ’18. Dalal and Agunos are the lead teachers of the student-run…

Faculty Chair Chosen

General Kenyon From Kenyon News - 7 years ago

Professor of Biology Chris Gillen jokes that when he assumes his new role of faculty chair in July, he “will sort of be starting as a lame duck.” He’ll be on sabbatical for the 2018-19 academic year, making this a one-year position. But Gillen is a glass half-full kind of guy. The timeline, he said, “lights a little fire, because if there are specific things that I’m excited about accomplishing, I’m going to have to get moving right away.”  Gillen will follow in the footsteps of Professor of Mathematics…

Nature Narratives

Arts & Culture From Kenyon News - 7 years ago

How does nature tie into ideas about science, politics, economics and history? Notable writers Lauret Savoy and Andrea Wulf address this topic in a pair of upcoming events at Kenyon College. Savoy, a professor of environmental studies at Mount Holyoke College, will speak Wednesday, April 12, at 7 p.m. in Rutherford B. Hayes Hall, room 109. A woman of African American, Euro American and Native American heritage, Savoy examines the complex ties among natural and cultural histories and explores how…

Highest Honors

General Kenyon From Kenyon News - 7 years ago

The annual Honors Day recognition of student, faculty and alumni achievement included the announcement of Trustee Teaching Excellence Award recipients Clara Román-Odio, professor of Spanish, and Jacqueline McAllister, assistant professor of political science. The awards, given at the celebration April 11, recognize a senior and junior faculty member for “exemplary teaching informed by creative scholarship.” Román-Odio (left) was honored as a tenured faculty member who has been at Kenyon for at…

Power to the People

Kenyon in the World From Kenyon News - 7 years ago

Schools in a small town in Belize received new solar panels thanks to the work of eight students and two professors who spent their spring break in the Central American country. Due to a lack of resources, electricity costs in Belize are four to five times higher than in the U.S. To save cash-strapped, rural schools hundreds of dollars per year in utility costs, the students affixed solar panels weighing 50 pounds each to the metal rooftops of one- and two-story buildings. According to Nora Boles…

Sounds of Spring

Arts & Culture From Kenyon News - 7 years ago

The sounds of Hector Berlioz, Johannes Brahms, Duke Ellington and more will fill the air as the Kenyon Department of Music closes the academic year with a month full of concerts. The Kenyon College Symphonic Wind Ensemble, under the direction of Professor of Music Dane Heuchemer, will perform its spring concert Sunday, April 9, at 3 p.m. in Rosse Hall. The 50-person band will perform works by several composers. Brass musicians will open the concert with Giovanni Gabrieli’s late Renaissance “Sonata…

Shakespearean Slapstick

Arts & Culture From Kenyon News - 7 years ago

Twins cause trouble as they fumble through a case of mistaken identity in “The Comedy of Errors,” presented by the Kenyon College Dance and Dramatic Club at 8 p.m. Thursday, April 6, Friday, April 7, and Saturday, April 8, in the Bolton Theater. The play — Shakespeare’s shortest — is directed by Jonathan Tazewell ’84 P’15, the Thomas S. Turgeon Professor of Drama. Two sets of twin brothers, separated by a shipwreck, reunite after many years apart — but not before a series of entertaining encounters…

Contentious Confirmation

Society & Politics From Kenyon News - 7 years ago

To help navigate the politics surrounding Neil Gorsuch’s pending confirmation to the Supreme Court, we talked to Ian Millhiser ’00, an expert on constitutional law and the judiciary, about filibusters, nuclear options and the death of the Senate. Millhiser, a philosophy major at Kenyon, is a senior fellow with the Center for American Progress Action Fund and the author of “Injustices: The Supreme Court’s History of Comforting the Comfortable and Afflicting the Afflicted.” It seems likely that Senate…

A Mighty Molecule

Alumni News From Kenyon News - 7 years ago

From the Hill to her own lab, Elizabeth Boon ’97 is transforming the way scientists think about bacteria. Boon, an associate professor of chemistry at Stony Brook University, returns to Kenyon this week to discuss her research involving nitric oxide (NO) and how this molecule has been linked to the formation of potentially harmful communities of bacteria called biofilms. On Wednesday, April 5, at 7 p.m. in the Gund Gallery’s Community Foundation Theater, Boon will give a talk titled “When Bacteria…

Devoted to DIII

Athletics From Kenyon News - 7 years ago

Kenyon’s athletics department, in conjunction with the Kenyon Student-Athlete Association, has planned a series of events to celebrate the annual NCAA Division III Week, observed this year April 3–9. The week-long occasion is an opportunity for all individuals associated with NCAA Division III to observe and celebrate the impact of athletics and of student athletes on the campus and surrounding community. During DIII week, Division III institutions and conference offices are encouraged to conduct…

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