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Reimagining Aid

Society & Politics From Kenyon News - 7 years ago

Amid the hubbub of dinnertime rush in Peirce Hall sits a group of students, calmly plotting a project that they hope will reimagine the way refugees are integrated into communities. Maher Latif ’17, Jae June Lee ’17, Sewar Quran ’17 and Sruthi Rao ’16 hold daily dinner meetings to collaborate on the creation of what they call a “shared learning platform” — an app that will connect refugees to resources in their new communities and streamline communications among organizations supporting refugees…

A Chamber Singers Travelogue

By Carolyn Ten Eyck '18

Student Life From Kenyon News - 7 years ago

Since the beginning of the school year, the Chamber Singers have been rehearsing five days a week in preparation for our spring break tour. This year, we toured the Southwest U.S., and I documented our trip from Gambier to Georgia and back, including our four concerts and all of the bus ride games, baby chick sightings and sweet tea drinks in between. Saturday, March 4 7:30 a.m. (Almost) all 55 chamber singers arrive outside Storer Hall, bleary-eyed and carrying baggage filled with cough drops…

On Spring Break at Kenyon

By Katie Jimenez-Gray '18

Student Life From Kenyon News - 7 years ago

For many Kenyon students, spring break is a chance to spend two relaxing weeks at home with family; others travel to visit friends and relatives or to explore new places; athletes on sports teams flock to warmer climates in preparation for their upcoming season. For the first time, though, I found myself staying on campus. An equestrian team competition happened to fall during the middle of break, causing me to spend the first half of the two-week break in Gambier. Although Kenyon always has that…

Championship Chase

Athletics From Kenyon News - 7 years ago

National runners-up last season, the Lords and Ladies travel this week to Shenandoah, Texas, in search of the top spot at the 2017 NCAA Division III Swimming and Diving Championship. The four-day event begins Wednesday in the Conroe Independent School District Natatorium. The Lords own 34 national championship titles, including three straight from 2013 to 2015 and 31 straight from 1980 through 2010. That total ties them with the Oklahoma State University wrestling team for the most titles accumulated…

Liberal Arts 2.0

By Sean Decatur

General Kenyon From Kenyon News - 7 years ago

Thanks to Z. Mike Wang of the Minerva Schools at KGI for allowing me to reprint my answers from his Medium post "8.5 Big Questions for 3 College Presidents." The full post, featuring answers from my counterparts at Smith College and Franklin & Marshall College, can be read here. Mike introduced his post by writing:  We are living in a time of vast, fast and unprecedented change in our world and will need educated citizens equipped with the skills, character and mindsets to tackle complex challenges…

Behind the Scene Shop

by Daniel Olivieri '19

Arts & Culture From The Collegian - 7 years ago

The shop room behind the Bolton Theater has, among other things, a dinosaur skeleton hanging from the ceiling, a giant painting of a Coca-Cola bottle and an enormous clock. Technical Director in the Department of Dance, Drama and Film Christopher Ellsworth ’96 is well-decorated himself with a beard and several piercings in his ears. It is from this colorful room that most Kenyon theater productions acquire their scenery, and it was in this same room that Ellsworth worked when he was a student at…

Environmental Education

Science & Technology From Kenyon News - 7 years ago

In January, the full faculty of Kenyon College formally approved the elevation of environmental studies from a concentration to a major. The cross-disciplinary major will expand the academic focus of the College’s ongoing efforts at sustainability. It builds on the popular environmental studies concentration, which has been offered since 1990 and now has about 15 concentrators per graduating class. Professor of Biology Siobhan Fennessy, the Philip and Sheila Jordan Professor in Environmental Studies…

Uniting for Writing

General Kenyon From Kenyon News - 7 years ago

At its Feb. 7 meeting in New York, the Kenyon Review Board of Trustees approved a proposal from Kenyon College to incorporate management of the Kenyon Institute and its programs into Kenyon Review operations. Transferring the Institute, a program of Kenyon College, to the Review will expand the Review’s summer workshops to include the Institute’s profession-based writing programs in biomedical research, playwriting and writing in new media for clergy, as well as the discussion-based Summer Seminar…

Intersecting Disciplines

That's So Kenyon From Kenyon News - 7 years ago

Mathematicians and artists draw inspiration from one another in a new class, “Math in the Studio,” co-taught by Professor of Mathematics Judy Holdener and Professor Emerita of Art Karen Snouffer. In the course, students learn the formal elements of art and design and are equipped with a mathematical understanding of notions central to art. Michaela Orr ’19, a studio art major considering a math major or minor, is taking the class to explore ideas beyond what she is learning in her traditional art…

Ecosystem Explorers

Science & Technology From Kenyon News - 7 years ago

Professor of Biology Siobhan Fennessy is familiar with the process of publishing important work — the careful data collection and analysis, the laborious writing, and the exhilarating news of acceptance in an esteemed journal. But a recent publication in Nature Communications was a particular point of pride for the Philip and Sheila Jordan Professor in Environmental Studies because of whom she co-authored the paper with — her former student, Amanda Nahlik ’02. Their paper, published in late 2016…

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