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Future of Funding

Science & Technology From Kenyon News - 8 years ago

The director of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), a key institution for biomedical research, visits Kenyon on Thursday, Sept. 29, to share insight into opportunities and challenges with biomedical research funding in the U.S. As the head of the NIGMS, which is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Jon Lorsch oversees a $2.5 billion budget that supports research to increase understanding of biological processes and to develop advances in disease diagnosis, treatment…

Master of the Peculiar

Alumni News From Alumni Bulletin - 8 years ago

Editor’s note: As the film adaptation of "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children," based on the best-selling book by Ransom Riggs '01, hits theaters Sept. 30, we are republishing our interview with Riggs from a 2014 issue of the Alumni Bulletin. View the results of Kenyon's peculiar short story contest. Ransom Riggs ’01 always felt he was “a little bit peculiar.” But then again, he added, “I didn’t feel any stranger than most of my friends.” The best-selling author of “Miss Peregrine’s Home…

Adelante Moves Forward

Arts & Culture From Kenyon News - 8 years ago

When Associate Professor of Philosophy Juan DePascuale agreed to be Adelante’s faculty advisor in 1986, only nine students on campus identified as Hispanic. In 2016, however, when the cultural society marked its 30th anniversary, 6.7 percent of Kenyon students — over 100 individuals — identified as Hispanic. “Es para no creer,” DePascuale said in the speech he gave at a dinner thrown in his honor during the anniversary celebration. The phrase, which means “It’s unbelievable” in Spanish, reflects…

Kenyon Mourns Scott Layson

General Kenyon From Kenyon News - 8 years ago

Scott A. Layson, director of Kenyon’s Career Development Office (CDO), died Tuesday evening, Sept. 20, 2016, at his home in Westerville, Ohio. He was 48. “Scott was a tireless and effective supporter, advocate and networker for Kenyon students and alumni, dedicated to the art and hard work of helping students and graduates navigate internship and job markets,” President Sean Decatur said. “In recent years, as he battled cancer, his courage and good humor in the face of great personal challenge provided…

An Overdue Idea

Alumni News From Alumni Bulletin - 8 years ago

Most people keep a running list of books they want to read. In 2013, Andrew Cunningham ’08 and Craig Getting ’08 started tackling theirs on an engaging podcast that now boasts over 30,000 total downloads. Each week, the friends and former Kenyon roommates read and discuss a book from what they call their “life queues” in a podcast they appropriately named “Overdue.” What initially began out of a desire to keep in touch on a weekly basis has blossomed into a podcast that has over 130 episodes in…

On Track for Tenure

General Kenyon From Kenyon News - 8 years ago

Eight professors have received tenure-track appointments for the 2016-17 academic year. “These colleagues bring a wealth of specialties and experiences to their Kenyon classrooms. I am sure students will find them inspiring and very approachable — the kind of teachers who will be great mentors, too,” Provost Joseph Klesner said. Qussay al-Attabi, assistant professor of Arabic B.A. and M.A. al-Mustansiriyyah University Iraq, M.A. and Ph.D. Brown University Qussay al-Attabi received his doctorate…

Sweetbitter Homecoming

Arts & Culture From Kenyon News - 8 years ago

Stephanie Danler ’06 returned to Kenyon for the first time since graduating to read from her hit novel “Sweetbitter” at an event sponsored by the Kenyon Review. “I love Kenyon, and I love it so much that I never returned after I graduated because it was too painful to think about coming back here,” Danler said to an overflow audience in the Cheever Room of Finn House. “To be with your best friends up on a hill doing nothing but studying what you love and reading and writing: that will never happen…

Gridiron Get-together

Athletics From Kenyon News - 8 years ago

A reunion of Kenyon football players Saturday, Sept. 10, included one player who huddled with the Lords when Franklin D. Roosevelt was president. Philip Doughten ’43 played defensive end and was on a team that went 7-2. But he wasn’t recruited. “I was signing up for classes, and there was a sign that said, ‘If you want to play football, be at the gym on Tuesday.’ And that was that,” Doughten said. The Lords in those days played on a field next to the railroad tracks (what is now the Kokosing Gap…

Podcast Pioneer

That's So Kenyon From Kenyon News - 8 years ago

Herbie Dittersdorf ’19 picks the brains of Kenyon’s dead through his new podcast, “The Pinnacle.” With a name referencing Old Kenyon’s iconic spire, the podcast investigates Kenyon’s rich past in short episodes that dig into the lives of key people in College history, the stories behind beloved campus buildings and more. Dittersdorf hopes his broadcast will interest students in the College’s history. “My real goal is to get everybody talking about this and to have critical conversations about different…

Seeking Fairness

Society & Politics From Kenyon News - 8 years ago

Bryan Stevenson, a leading advocate for equal treatment in the courts, will speak at Rosse Hall Tuesday, Sept. 20, at 7:30 p.m. on “American Injustice: Mercy, Humanity and Making a Difference.” Stevenson, the founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama, fights against the death penalty. He has been called “America’s young Nelson Mandela” by South African anti-apartheid activist Desmond Tutu. The winner of a MacArthur “genius” grant, Stevenson, through his…

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