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International Moves

Arts & Culture From Kenyon News - 7 years ago

No stranger to the Fulbright program, Kenyon took part in one of the scholarship’s newest initiatives this January when the College hosted Turkish dance professor Ayrin Ersoz for several days.   Professor of Dance Julie Brodie spearheaded the initiative to bring Ersoz to campus by applying to the Fulbright Outreach Lecturing Fund (OLF), which helps interested colleges and universities across the country bring Fulbright Visiting Scholars to their campuses. Ersoz currently serves as a Fulbright Visiting…

Return to the Hill

By Katie Jimenez-Gray '18

Student Life From Kenyon News - 7 years ago

I spent last semester studying abroad in Stockholm, Sweden. It was a wonderful experience, but to be honest, I missed Kenyon far more than I expected I would. I missed the five-minute commute to classes. I missed the convenience of an all-you-can-eat dining hall. I missed the comfort of Middle Path. I missed my friends, whose lives at Kenyon went on without me. Most of all, though, I missed classes at Kenyon. I missed that feeling of walking out of class completely inspired to learn as much as you…

Haygood Talks History

Society & Politics From Kenyon News - 7 years ago

Renowned writer Wil Haygood, best known for his best-selling book “The Butler: A Witness to History,” will speak Monday, Feb. 13, at 7 p.m. in Brandi Recital Hall.   Haygood’s talk, titled “Bringing Black History to the Screen: Untold Stories That Shape American History,” is the keynote event for a series of activities honoring Black History Month at Kenyon. His best-selling book “The Butler” was adapted to a major motion picture in 2013 with an all-star cast including Forest Whitaker, Oprah Winfrey…

Unleashing the Force

Student Life From Kenyon News - 7 years ago

The Kenyon Athletic Center became training grounds for future jedis on Saturday, Jan. 28, when Columbus, Ohio-based fencing instructor Tim Mills taught lightsaber combat to the Kenyon and Gambier community. Attendees of all ages learned traditional fencing stances and moves from Mills before eventually trying their hand at fencing with lightsabers. Mills led each of his four sessions with warmup exercises and instruction on proper fencing posture. Once thoroughly prepared, participants pranced around…

Criminal Mind

Kenyon in the World From Kenyon News - 7 years ago

Assistant Professor of Political Science Jacqueline McAllister will trade in her Acland House office for one in Oslo, Norway, next year as a recipient of a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program grant. The grant will allow McAllister to continue her research on international criminal tribunals (ICTs) and to investigate how they affect violence against civilians and negotiations to end civil wars. ICTs, including the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the International Criminal Tribunal for the former…

Pop Culture Indulgences

By Sean Decatur

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

One of my weekly pleasures is the NPR podcast “Pop Culture Happy Hour,” a fun and often thought-provoking discussion of television, music, movies and other pop culture elements. Each episode ends with a segment called “What’s Making Us Happy,” where each panelist gives an annotated listing of what one may call pop culture serotonin, small things that provide levity to one’s spirit even when weighed upon by more serious matters. (A bonus: Sometimes the panelists include Kenyon alumna Margaret Willison…

Moss Mysteries

Science & Technology From Kenyon News - 7 years ago

Karen Hicks, an associate professor of biology, recently received a three-year, $450,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to probe the mysteries of moss. The award will enable Hicks and her research team of Kenyon students to study the evolution of seasonal regulation in a species of moss known as Physcomitrella patens. The research team will study the moss’s reaction to seasonal cues in its reproductive process compared to the reaction of flowering plants. “We know a lot about how flowering…

Marsden to Lead Communications

General Kenyon From Kenyon News - 7 years ago

Janet Lape Marsden, the vice president for communications at Bennington College, joins Kenyon as vice president for communications April 3, 2017. Marsden was selected after a national search. She has served Bennington in a number of roles since 2001. Bennington is a residential liberal arts college in North Bennington, Vermont, with an enrollment of approximately 750 undergraduate students. “Janet’s background as a collaborative leader and a creative thinker makes her a perfect fit for Kenyon.…

Athletic Activist

Athletics From Kenyon News - 7 years ago

When athlete Chris Mosier began attending college nearly two decades ago in the upper peninsula of Michigan, he knew few gay people, and he didn’t know anyone who identified as trans. Now, as the first out transgender athlete on a U.S. men’s national team, Mosier is visiting colleges across the nation to share his story. At the invitation of Kenyon College Athletes for Equality (KCAE), Mosier traveled to Gambier on Thursday, Jan. 26, to speak in front of a packed Rosse Hall and answer questions…

Challenged by Chekhov

Arts & Culture From Kenyon News - 7 years ago

The Kenyon College Dance and Dramatic Club puts its own spin on “Uncle Vanya,” the traditional melodrama by Anton Chekhov, in the Bolton Theater at 8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 2, Friday, Feb. 3 and Saturday, Feb. 4. The play, adapted by Pulitzer Prize winner Annie Baker, is directed by Benjamin Viccellio ’98, associate professor of drama and film. The performance transports its audience to a country estate in Russia and explores themes of unrequited romance, dreams deferred and environmental decay before…

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