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Careers Illustrated

General Kenyon From Kenyon News - 9 years ago

The career paths pursued by nearly 11,000 Kenyon alumni are illustrated in an interactive image that shows the relationship between professions and academic majors. The image looks at alumni who graduated during the 30-year period between 1979 and 2010, with each graduate represented by an arc connecting a major on the left with a career category on the right. “In one quick visual that’s easy to understand, we can give everyone an impression of what’s happening with all of our graduates,” Brad…

Exploring the Crisis

Society & Politics From Kenyon News - 9 years ago

Gary Gorton, an expert in financial crises and a Yale University professor of finance, will speak Monday, March 30, at 7:30 p.m. in the Gund Gallery’s Community Foundation Theater. The speech is part of the Economics Department’s Shepherd Lecture Series. “He’s probably in the top one or two innovative, original thinkers on the financial crisis of 2008 and 2009,” said Will Melick, the Bruce L. Gensemer Professor of Economics. Gorton’s approach is accessible because it’s not couched in a lot of equations…

Conservation Catalyst

General Kenyon From Kenyon News - 9 years ago

One of the first things to captivate a visitor to Kenyon is the untouched rural land surrounding the Hill. Preservation of the land isn’t an accident; it is the mission of the Philander Chase Corporation (PCC), a nonprofit land trust associated with the College. Distinguished conservationist James Levitt will speak on the role of colleges such as Kenyon in greenspace preservation Tuesday, March 31, at 11:10 a.m. in Peirce Hall’s Peirce Pub. Levitt is the director of the Program on Conservation Innovation…

Torday Takes Flight

Alumni News From Kenyon News - 9 years ago

Daniel Torday ’00 published his first novel, The Last Flight of Poxl West, about a Jewish fighter pilot against the Nazis, narrated by his young nephew who adores him as a war hero and grand adventurer.  The title character writes a memoir of his escape from the Nazi offensive in Czechoslovakia, his love affairs, and his flights to bomb Germany as a member of the British Royal Air Force. Nephew Eli Goldstein begins to find that his idolized uncle romanticized some of the facts.  The book appeared…

Modern Strings

Arts & Culture From Kenyon News - 9 years ago

The Mivos Quartet, a strings group that focuses on works of contemporary composers, will perform Sunday, March 29, at 7 p.m. in the Brandi Recital Hall in Storer Hall. Since it started in 2008, the quartet has performed works of emerging and established composers with a variety of styles. Its Kenyon appearance is part of the Warner Concert Series. The quartet is expected to play Alban Berg’s Lyric Suite, the Higgins arrangement of Bach’s Contrapunctus XIV, and  Helmut Lachenmann’s String Quartet…

Putting Sound to Film

Arts & Culture From Kenyon News - 9 years ago

A composer will play her original score at a free screening of the 1918 silent film The Yellow Ticket about a Jewish woman forced to lead a double life in a brothel while attending medical school in Russia. The showing will be 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday, March 28, in the Community Foundation Theater of the Gund Gallery. The movie features Polish actress Pola Negri before she became a Hollywood star. Her character from a village in Poland learned that Jewish women are allowed to work in Russia only as…

Soccer Scholar

Athletics From Kenyon News - 9 years ago

Adding to his already-impressive slate of accomplishments in both academics and athletics, Sam Justice '15 was recently selected as a recipient of an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship. A four-year member of the highly successful Lords soccer team, Justice was one of just 29 NCAA Division III fall sports participants to earn the award. He is just the second men's soccer player at Kenyon to be honored, but is the 66th overall Kenyon recipient (including all sports) since the scholarship program started…

Bridging Borders

Kenyon in the World From Kenyon News - 9 years ago

Standing in Arizona with her classmates at a towering fence of metal bars, Aubrianna Osorio ’17 peered through at Mexico and questioned the connection she felt with the country from which half of her family originates. The wall was one stop on a spring break study trip to Arizona and Mexico for Osorio and 11 other students in a sociology class called “Borders and Border Crossings.” The class wrote a blog called “Borderlands” during the trip to chronicle their thoughts while visiting sites including…

Art, Abolition and Alchemy

Arts & Culture From Kenyon News - 9 years ago

Moments before his performance, poet Amir Sulaiman carefully ran a long pendant of beads through his fingers, expertly maneuvering the misbaha, or Islamic prayer beads. “So many religious traditions share an item like this,” he reflected to the audience later in the evening. “It’s something to tell you, ‘Stay awake. Stay awake.’ ” No one was in jeopardy of falling asleep when Sulaiman — also a recording artist, activist and recently appointed Harvard Fellow — spoke to a full-capacity crowd at the…

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