Former NASA Astronaut Ellen Ochoa will bring her story of curiosity and discovery to Southwest Michigan for an event celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month.

Kalamazoo College’s Jewish Studies program will screen the documentary Sapiro v. Ford: The Jew Who Sued Henry Ford at 7 p.m. Wednesday, October 7.

Binney Girdler received the 2026–27 Florence J. Lucasse Fellowship for Excellence in Scholarship. Louise Tennant-Filkins earned the Ambrose Prize.

Kalamazoo College has earned the top spot among Michigan’s private institutions in Forbes’ rankings of America’s top colleges for 2027.

Jordan Johnson knows from experience that getting involved can be difficult. His advice to K students: Take chances and visit the intercultural center.

Kalamazoo College will welcome two new tenure-track faculty members, expanding opportunities for students to study neuroscience and contemporary art. 

Ava King ’28 is helping a student lab develop and test low-cost air-quality sensors that measure pollutants such as ozone and particulate matter.

With a research success rate their faculty leader estimates at around 20%, resilience matters for students like Mallory Gentry ’28 and Simnan Magnan ’29.

It’s a demanding schedule to perform summer chemistry research, but Logan Coller ’27 and Caleb Moore ’27 say their athletic careers prepared them for it.

A growing number of student-athletes at K are spending their summers in labs, practicing the same discipline and persistence they learned in their sports.

The Princeton Review again is placing Kalamazoo College among the top 14 percent of the nation’s four-year institutions in “The Best 392 Colleges.”

Kalamazoo College has named Dominique Somda and Taylor Petrey to endowed professorships for their scholarship, teaching and service to the institution.