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That's So Kenyon From Kenyon News - 7 years ago
"Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know." —John Keats If books top your wish list, enjoy a wander through these recommendations from your friends at the Kenyon Review. As for the wine, fruit, al fresco music, and especially for the fine weather, well . . . we’ll leave those to you. But for books, KR's got you covered. Happy holidays! David Lynn '76 P'14, Editor "The Little Red Chairs" by Edna O'Brien may well be a masterpiece…
Mary Louise Shafer Lang, a longtime employee of the Kenyon Bookstore, died Friday, Dec. 16, at Grant Medical Center in Columbus, Ohio. She was 56 and a resident of Mount Vernon. A graduate of Mount Vernon High School, Mary joined the staff of the Kenyon Bookstore in August 1997 as a stock clerk. Formerly the bookstore’s buyer for clothing and gifts, she was a customer-service associate at the time of her death. “Mary had a heart of gold,” said Deb Shelhorn, campus safety supervisor and telecommunications…
Machines are taking over, and they’re starting with our orchestras. In Brandi Recital Hall on Sunday, Dec. 4, the students in “Advanced Computer Music” performed as the Kenyon Laptop Orchestra, or KLORC, in their concert, “KLORC 3: The Machines Rise Again!” Laptop orchestras originated at Princeton University in 2005 with the Princeton Laptop Orchestra, or PLOrk. Since then, laptop orchestras have cropped up all over the world, including at Stanford University, the University of British Columbia…
Karina Kunka ’19 and Jessie Griffith ’19 are conducting research at Kenyon that may help NASA grow microbes on Mars. If their lab work produces a microbe that grows under Mars-like conditions, it could give NASA clues to designing experiments that detect life on Mars. “Further ahead, lab evolution could generate microbes that help Mars colonists form an ecosystem to support humans,” said Joan Slonczewski, Robert A. Oden Jr. Professor of Biology, who is mentoring the student researchers together…
The weekend after classes ended, Kenyon community members were invited to exchange stress and busyness for a dose of 1940s nostalgia and a taste of the holiday spirit. The Horn Gallery was transformed into an old-time broadcast studio as Natalie Kane ’18, from Mountain Lakes, New Jersey, directed a radio play adaptation of “It’s a Wonderful Life.” Kane was first struck with the idea of bringing a radio play to the Hill when she saw a theater production of this same adaptation in New York City. …
Students who enrolled last spring in Women’s and Gender Studies 331 probably never expected to bounce on an exercise ball, meet with local community health groups or interview a fourth-grader for class. But that’s what happened after Associate Professor of Political Science Abbie Erler, who teaches "Gender, Power and Knowledge: Research Practices," decided to undertake an analysis of Knox County’s “Crunch Out Obesity” program. In past iterations of the biennial course, students completed a research…
Senior studio art majors threw open the doors to their Horvitz Hall studios Friday, Dec. 9, from 5-7 p.m. for the Department of Art’s annual Open Studio event. The 19 studio art majors, in addition to one senior not majoring in studio art, gave visitors a rare look at their studios and works both finished and in progress. The yearly event is meant to give students experience in presenting their work as well as to prepare them for their final compositions, which are exhibited in the spring. “The…
Kenyon dancers will present eight pieces ranging from the whimsical to the ominous in their Fall Dance Concert, held Dec. 8-10 at 8 p.m. in the Hill Theater. Two projects by senior dance majors will be showcased at the concert. “Rooted,” a dance choreographed by Ian Edwards ’17, is an evocative duet that takes place within the confines of a stark set of branches, created by Kelsey Ewing ’16. A dance by Marc Ferraro ’17 conjures a sense of isolation as passersby intersect in an eerie outdoor autumnal…
Jadah Jones ’18 and Maymuna Abdi ’18 recently were selected to receive a prestigious Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship to help defray the costs of their overseas residencies. The Kenyon students were among 850 undergraduates nationwide earning up to $5,000 each for the spring 2017 term. Jones, an international studies major, will spend the spring semester in Botswana studying the politics, economics, public health, language and culture of southern Africa in an off-campus program offered…