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Eye-catching Installations

Arts & Culture From Kenyon News - 8 years ago

For here, or to go? Diners in Peirce Hall recently were asked to consider this common coffee shop query as they passed by a paper-cup sculpture temporarily installed in the dining hall. The work was created by Shannon Hart ’18, an economics major from Harare, Zimbabwe. Hart completed the sculpture, titled “To-go or to-stay,” as part of an installation art course with Professor of Art Claudia Esslinger. Her work examines how an on-the-go lifestyle is associated with mass consumption. Hart gathered…

A Space for All Makers

Alumni News From Kenyon News - 8 years ago

Sonya Pryor-Jones ’94 was honored at the White House in June for her work to make digital tools widely available, and on Tuesday, Nov. 1, at 11:10 a.m. in Higley Hall Auditorium, she returns to Kenyon to speak about how her liberal arts education connects to “the maker movement.” Pryor-Jones is the chief implementation officer at the Fab Foundation, a nonprofit spun off from work by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From her home in Cleveland, she helps the Fab Foundation create community…

Summer Superschool

Science & Technology From Kenyon News - 8 years ago

Kenyon and three other institutions, funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation, have created a virtual neuroscience department by combining research infrastructure and faculty expertise. The $500,000 grant allowed faculty at Kenyon, Earlham College, the College of Wooster and Ohio Wesleyan University to work with 16 students during a nine-week program this summer. The grant is another step in Kenyon’s ongoing efforts to help minority, female and first-generation students succeed in…

Finding Light

by Devon Musgrave-Johnson '19

Arts & Culture From The Collegian - 8 years ago

The playbill didn’t say anything about a giant chipmunk that would come in halfway through act two, but the Kenyon College Dance and Dramatic Club (KCDC) is full of surprises. This past Family Weekend, KCDC put on their production of Scott McPherson’s “Marvin’s Room,” directed by Assistant Professor of Drama and Film James Dennen. The play centers on sisters Bessie and Lee, brought together by Bessie’s leukemia and the hope that either Lee or her sons will be able to provide a bone marrow transplant…

Campaign Conversation

Society & Politics From Kenyon News - 8 years ago

New York Times op-ed columnist Maureen Dowd engaged the Kenyon community in a livestreamed discussion about the 2016 presidential election Tuesday, Oct. 18, in Rosse Hall. Dowd, who won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for distinguished commentary, was introduced by Assistant Professor of Political Science Jacqueline McAllister. “Whether you love or hate her, it is undeniable that her columns force everyone to look a little harder at the politicians behind the curtain,” said McAllister, who submitted the…

Top Nine Honor

Athletics From Kenyon News - 8 years ago

Haley Townsend '16, a recent Kenyon graduate and four-year member of the Ladies swimming and diving team, was honored at an awards dinner in Indianapolis on Sunday as one of nine finalists for the 2016 NCAA Woman of the Year award. The record-setting field of 517 Woman of the Year nominees was first whittled down to 142 conference nominees. The NCAA Woman of the Year selection committee then picked 30 women from that pool. Ten nominees from each of the three NCAA divisions comprised that group of…

Wright Center Named

General Kenyon From Kenyon News - 8 years ago

Kenyon will name the former Buckeye Candy building in Mount Vernon for the children of the philanthropist who has revitalized a host of Mount Vernon landmarks. Karen Buchwald Wright P’05 ’09 is chairman, president and CEO of Ariel Corporation, a leading manufacturer of compressors used in the natural gas industry. Her sons who attended Kenyon are Alexander Wright ’05, married to Libby Wright ’05, and Hunter Wright, married to Katherine Wright ’10. The $6 million effort to save and restore the warehouse…

World Views

Kenyon in the World From Kenyon News - 8 years ago

When Ghada Bakbouk ’19 saw a recent tweet by Donald Trump Jr., she couldn’t help but laugh. “If I had a bowl of skittles and I told you just three would kill you. Would you take a handful? That’s our Syrian refugee problem,” read Trump’s tweet, which also included an image of a bowl of Skittles. “It was just such a childish comment,” Bakbouk, from Damascus, Syria, said. Bakbouk used Trump’s tweet as inspiration for an event for Global Engagement Week, a series of activities from Oct. 15-25 that…

Pet Project

Arts & Culture From Kenyon News - 8 years ago

Author Julie (Hill) Barton ’95 returns to Kenyon for a reading from her best-selling memoir “Dog Medicine: How My Dog Saved Me From Myself” on Saturday, Oct. 15, at 3:30 p.m. in the Cheever Room of Finn House. In "Dog Medicine," Barton recounts how her dog Bunker, who died in 2007, helped her through years of depression. After her reading, hosted by the Kenyon Review, Barton will take questions from the audience. Barton majored in English at Kenyon before earning a master of fine arts degree in…

From Hill to Hill

Society & Politics From Kenyon News - 8 years ago

A month before Election Day, 50 Kenyon students boarded a bus and headed to Washington, D.C., to meet, mingle with and learn from alumni who have made careers on Capitol Hill. The event, “From Hill to Hill,” was hosted by Kenyon’s Center for the Study of American Democracy and co-sponsored by the D.C. Regional Alumni Association. “The idea of a greater partnership between CSAD and the D.C. alumni presence has been longstanding,” said Tom Karako, director of CSAD and a senior fellow at the Center…

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