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Mammoth Undertaking

Science & Technology From Kenyon News - 8 years ago

With slices of wood attached to their feet, students forged a path to the Kokosing River through the thick brush of the Brown Family Environmental Center (BFEC). “Basically we’re turning into elephants,” Professor of Anthropology Bruce Hardy said, referring to a mammoth, 15-foot tarp strung up between two trees and sporting an accurately scaled drawing of a Pleistocene woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius).  The experiment in his “Neanderthals” class was an attempt to examine the “way-finding…

Creative Collaboration

Arts & Culture From Kenyon News - 8 years ago

“I give more than I take.” “I live in a bubble.” “I’m not good at being vulnerable.” Kenyon students wrote nearly 150 such statements about themselves as part of a collaboration among two classes and Cheryl Pope, the first Mellon Foundation artist-in-residence at the Gund Gallery. Pope, a Chicago-based artist and educator, arrived at Kenyon in late March to work with students in the “Institutions and Inequalities” course taught by David Skubby, visiting assistant professor of sociology, and in…

Spring Swing

Arts & Culture From Kenyon News - 8 years ago

Start with a couple of standards, stir in some swing and funk, add a taste of Latin spice, and you have the ingredients for the annual spring concert by the Kenyon Jazz Ensemble. The 20-piece band — led by Professor of Music Ted Buehrer ’91 — presents its academic-year finale at 2 p.m. Sunday, April 24, in Rosse Hall. The concert was moved from Friday to avoid a conflict with Passover. “I try to provide a range of styles for the band to learn and interpret,” Buehrer said of his programs. The variety…

Significant Statistician

Science & Technology From Kenyon News - 8 years ago

Robin Dunn ’16 joined a select group of the nation’s mathematics students when she won a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, one of the most coveted graduate grants in the sciences. Dunn was one of 2,000 students from among 17,000 applicants to earn the award recently and one of just 19 statistics students. The three-year fellowship provides an annual stipend of $34,000 and $12,000 in education-related expenses. “The fellowship supports graduate students as they begin their…

Celebrating Optimism

By Katie Jimenez-Gray '18

Student Life From Kenyon News - 8 years ago

When I was 7, my mom’s best friend from college was diagnosed with lung cancer. My mom’s seldom-closed bedroom door was shut, and I lingered outside, listening to her talk on the phone. It was the first time I remember ever hearing my mom cry. Over the next three years, my mom, who hates planes, took frequent flights across the country from our home in California to visit her friend in Maryland. When she returned, she would show me photos of hospital beds, sheared hair and surgical scars. It was…

Broadcasting Her Expertise

Arts & Culture From Kenyon News - 8 years ago

What happens when you take the narrative-driven structure of a hit podcast like Serial and infuse it with stories of illicit antiquities from the perspective of an expert archaeologist? Zoë Kontes, associate professor of classics, intends to find out when she embarks on a six-month Whiting Public Engagement Fellowship in the fall. The public engagement fellowship is a pilot program launched by the Whiting Foundation — a New York City-based philanthropic organization that has been funding scholarly…

Ready, Set, Gallery

Arts & Culture From Kenyon News - 8 years ago

Senior artists put their creativity on the line April 18 through the end of the semester with the public display of their work in the Gund Gallery. The annual senior capstone — the capstone experience for studio art majors — “is not for the faint of heart,” said Associate Professor of Art Read Baldwin ’84 P’15 ’17, chair of the Department of Studio Art. “It is a yearlong, often difficult journey that our studio alumni consistently report was the highlight of their Kenyon careers.” The emphasis…

Embracing the Challenge

Arts & Culture From Kenyon News - 8 years ago

The recent staging of the sprawling and irreverent A Free Man of Color by the Department of Dance, Drama and Film brought a restoration-style comedy to Bolton Theater. Written in 2010 by Tony Award-winning playwright John Guare, the play is set in the bohemian melting pot of New Orleans. The action follows two threads. One charts the adventures of the former slave Jacques Cornet, the city’s wealthiest man. The other, meanwhile, focuses on political maneuverings and wars around the world that lead…

Nature Power

General Kenyon From Kenyon News - 8 years ago

The 10th annual Earth Day Festival will celebrate how healthy it is for people to be outdoors.  The free festival, held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday, April 17, at the Kenyon Athletic Center, is themed “Healthy Inside & Out” to encourage visitors go outside to keep themselves and the planet healthy. “Even exploring your backyard with your children is meaningful,” said Heather Doherty ’98, director of the Brown Family Environmental Center at Kenyon. “You can find lightning bugs and katydids. There…

A Timeless Tale

Arts & Culture From Kenyon News - 8 years ago

Sights and sounds of the Caribbean will fill Rosse Hall Friday, April 15, and Saturday, April 16, at 8 p.m. when the Opera Music and Theater Workshop presents Once on This Island. The one-act musical, set in the French Antilles archipelago in the Caribbean Sea, echoes Romeo and Juliet with a love story that entangles people of different classes — a peasant girl and a wealthy landowner. Workshop music director Jennifer Marcellana ’95 and choreographer Magic McBride P’17 chose the show for its intoxicating…

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