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Learning from Professionals

Arts & Culture From Kenyon News - 9 years ago

The dance program has developed a strong relationship with West African master drummer and choreographer Olivier Tarpaga, and he is bringing his acoustic group Dafra Kura to campus this week for a residency ending with a public performance on Thursday, Sept. 10. The show at 7 p.m. in Rosse Hall features voice, blues guitar, the kora string instrument and percussion. The musicians from Burkina Faso will play excerpts from the evocative score created for Declassified Memory Fragment, a 2013 dance…

Novel Success

by Bailey Blaker '18

Student Life From The Collegian - 9 years ago

When you’re next browsing the Kenyon notable authors section in the bookstore make sure to look for Seven Ways We Lie, a young adult novel written by Ríoghnach Robinson ’16. The novel is slated for release in March 2016 by ABRAMS under the penname Riley Redgate. Robinson has written many other works, including six more novels, an award-winning play, and enough original songs to fill not one, but two full-length albums. But this is her first to be published under the ABRAMS imprint Amulet. She wrote…

A Powerful Perspective

Kenyon in the World From Kenyon News - 9 years ago

When Daniel Garcia ’17 signed up for a course on immigration his sophomore year, it wasn’t just to earn credits toward his double major in political science and Spanish. It was to learn more about an issue that is as personal to Garcia as it is political. The Woodburn, Oregon, native grew up in a community where nearly everyone, including his parents, was a first- or second-generation Mexican immigrant. In the course, Immigration, Citizenship and National Identity, students read texts representing…

Expanding Expertise

Arts & Culture From Kenyon News - 9 years ago

Associate Professor of English Jene Schoenfeld bookended her summer with two seminars to expand her expertise in African-American literature. She was selected to participate in a four-day slave narrative seminar at the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History held at Yale University in June. In addition, she attended a two-week institute on contemporary black poetry at Kansas University that ended in August. In the literature and African diaspora courses she teaches, Schoenfeld uses a number…

Summer Matters

Student Life From Kenyon News - 9 years ago

When Jules Desroches ’18 returned to campus for the fall semester, he brought some of his summer with him — including colorful shirts and hats from Ghana and a desire to start a chapter of a political organization at Kenyon. This summer, Desroches took a two-week educational trip to the African country to learn about microfinance loans and also interned at No Labels in Manchester, New Hampshire, a nonpartisan nonprofit that is committed to political problem solving. The American studies and sociology…

Nature Preserved

General Kenyon From Kenyon News - 9 years ago

The Brown Family Environmental Center, Kenyon’s expansive nature preserve just down the Hill, is celebrating 20 years of providing students a living laboratory and a place to have fun, relax or get some exercise outside. Students measure trees in biology class, test the Kokosing River for research projects, have tried spear throwing like Neanderthals and create dances inspired by the landscape. The 480-acre preserve is one of the College’s strongest links to nearby communities, welcoming 16,000…

Shoes, Death and the College Essay

By Darryl Uy

That's So Kenyon From Kenyon News - 9 years ago

Panicking about writing the best college application essay of all time? After more than 16 years of working in college admissions, Associate Dean of Admissions Darryl Uy has become an expert on reading application essays. Read his tips for writing a successful essay and get prepared for a great college application season. During the last 16 years in admissions, I have photocopied my favorite essays, and they are all in a binder in my office. If you read any of them, you will realize that they are…

Math Upended

Science & Technology From Kenyon News - 9 years ago

Associate Professor of Mathematics Marie Snipes is trying to turn undergraduate math instruction on its head by developing a set of lessons in which students solve real-life problems and learn underlying math concepts along the way.  She teamed with three professors from other colleges to win a nearly $250,000 National Science Foundation grant to develop instruction modules that engage students in creative data-driven projects. Sometimes in upper-level math courses for undergraduates, applying the…

Kenyon Mourns Mary Hettlinger

General Kenyon From Kenyon News - 9 years ago

Mary Allnutt Hettlinger, a longtime Gambier resident and the widow of Professor Richard F. Hettlinger H’85, died Monday, Aug. 24, at her home on Woodside Drive. She was 87. Mary, who was born in London on Sept. 2, 1927, came to Gambier in 1960 with her husband, who had accepted a position at Kenyon in which half his time was devoted to the chaplaincy and the other half to the religion department. Dick Hettlinger became a full-time member of the religion faculty in 1964 and later a founder and, beginning…

Meeting the Class of 2019

General Kenyon From Kenyon News - 9 years ago

An Intel semifinalist, a Teen Vogue blogger, a peacock fan dancer, a television commentator on social issues in Pakistan, a service worker who helped build a library in Thailand, and a collection of published researchers and writers are among the 493 first-year students joining the Class of 2019. Members of the incoming class, plus 13 transfer students, were welcomed at Convocation on Sunday, Aug. 23, in the Kenyon Athletic Center. “This year’s 493 first-year students were chosen from Kenyon’s largest…

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