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Putting Rights First

Society & Politics From Kenyon News - 4 years ago

Political science major Julia McKay ’17 knew she wanted to work in Washington, D.C., after graduating from Kenyon. After a stint working on Capitol Hill, she became a national security policy intern at Human Rights First, a nonpartisan international human rights organization. In fall 2019, she traveled to Guantanamo Bay Naval Base to observe a pretrial hearing of the Guantanamo military commission against Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who is charged with planning and executing the Sept. 11 terror attacks…

50 Years of Kenyon Women: Caitlin Horrocks ’02

Kenyon Women From Kenyon News - 4 years ago

To celebrate 50 years of coeducation at Kenyon, we’re profiling three dozen of Kenyon alumnae during the 2019-20 academic year. These women, merely a small sample of the thousands of female graduates who have earned Kenyon degrees since 1969, will discuss their undergraduate experiences and how their education in Gambier prepared them for their lives and careers. The 28th alumna in our series is Caitlin Horrocks ’02, who majored in English at Kenyon and is now an associate professor of writing at…

Investing in Earth Science

Science & Technology From Kenyon News - 4 years ago

In a bit of unscientific serendipity during this 50th anniversary year of women at Kenyon, the first course Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Ruth Heindel began teaching in January as the holder of a new endowed professorship created by female donors and named for a female Kenyon professor has eight students, all women.  Heindel is the first faculty member named to the new Dorothy and Thomas Jegla Professorship in the Natural Sciences, created with a gift from Board of Trustees member…

Calling In, Not Out

Society & Politics From Kenyon News - 4 years ago

Kenyon’s annual celebration of Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy on Monday, Jan. 20, featured a keynote address by Loretta Ross, a nationally recognized women’s rights and human rights leader. Ross’s work emphasizes the intersectionality of social justice issues and how this transforms social change. Ross’ address at Kenyon was titled “Calling In Vs. Calling Out Will Build the Human Rights Movement.” In it, she discussed “calling out” and “cancel culture,” or the public shaming of those with insensitive…

Scientific Storytelling

Science & Technology From Kenyon News - 4 years ago

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded Kenyon a $150,000 grant to support a science-writing initiative that will empower students to clearly and artfully articulate important scientific topics to a general audience.  The grant, matched with Kenyon funds, provides a solid foundation for a top-flight writing initiative that will encourage strong collaboration among the sciences and the humanities for compelling scientific storytelling. Through the initiative, students from all disciplines will…

Mark Twang on Tour

By Ethan Bradley ’20

Student Life From Kenyon News - 4 years ago

Upper Lewis was a happening place my freshman year. We were particularly loud and rambunctious, but also very musical. Three rappers, several a cappella singers, a few multi-instrumentalists, producers, the list goes on. We could make a decent-sized playlist of music made by guys from my freshman hallway. For me, though, the most notable musicians are the ones I am still in a band with. We call ourselves Mark Twang, and in the past couple months we have released an EP and toured from Philadelphia…

50 Years of Kenyon Women: Alexandra White ’09

Kenyon Women From Kenyon News - 4 years ago

To celebrate 50 years of coeducation at Kenyon, we’re profiling three dozen of Kenyon alumnae during the 2019-20 academic year. These women, merely a small sample of the thousands of female graduates who have earned Kenyon degrees since 1969, will discuss their undergraduate experiences and how their education in Gambier prepared them for their lives and careers. The 27th alumna in our series is Alexandra (Lexie) White ’09, a Stadtman Tenure-Track Investigator at the National Institute of Environmental…

Mind of a Writer

Arts & Culture From Kenyon News - 4 years ago

As Kenyon’s newest Richard L. Thomas Professor of Creative Writing, Ira Sukrungruang is tasked with invigorating the literary life of the College and helping to shape its creative writing curriculum. Sukrungruang sat with one of his academic advisees, Paola Liendo ’20, an English major from Laredo, Texas, for a conversation about his teaching philosophy, inclusive literature and the future of creative writing at Kenyon.  You’ve written three nonfiction books, a short story collection and a poetry…

50 Years of Kenyon Women: Brooke Hauser ’01

Kenyon Women From Kenyon News - 4 years ago

To celebrate 50 years of coeducation at Kenyon, we’re profiling three dozen of Kenyon alumnae during the 2019-20 academic year. These women, merely a small sample of the thousands of female graduates who have earned Kenyon degrees since 1969, will discuss their undergraduate experiences and how their education in Gambier prepared them for their lives and careers. The 26th alumna in our series is writer and journalist Brooke Hauser ’01, editor in chief of the Daily Hampshire Gazette, a newspaper…

Kenyon Remembers Bruce Haywood

General Kenyon From Kenyon News - 4 years ago

Bruce Haywood H’80, a longtime member of the Kenyon community as professor, dean and provost, and former president of Monmouth College in Illinois, died on Jan. 7, 2020. He was 94 and a resident of Galesburg, Illinois. A native of Yorkshire, England, where he was raised in the coal mining village of Allerton Bywater, Haywood attended the University of Leeds before transferring to McGill University.  There he earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees before going on to receive his doctorate from…

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