K Closed for Holiday Break
Kalamazoo College will close from December 24 through January 1 and will re-open on January 2. Student residence halls will open on Saturday, January 5, at 9 A.M. The first meal in the dining center will be dinner on Sunday, January 6. Classes start on Monday, January 7. Persons who would like to make a […]
Kalamazoo College President Signs Letters to Obama, Congress
Kalamazoo College President Eileen Wilson-Oyelaran has been a signatory to two open letters to President Obama and Congressional Leaders in recent days. One addresses gun control, the other addresses the possible elimination of the federal tax deduction for charitable giving. On December 19, President Wilson-Oyelaran joined more than 160 college presidents who signed an open letter […]
Cultivating Community
Cultivating Community is a first-year seminar taught by Associate Professor of English Amelia Katanski ’92. It’s a service-learning course that combines academic inquiry with a project rooted in a local issue or organization. This fall, Cultivating Community students broke into groups to interview and photograph people active in the area food community for the purpose […]
K Alumna Arianna Schindle ’08 Is Still a Social Activist
Arianna Schindle ’08 is committed to improving peoples’ lives, whether in an impoverished Thai village or along Chicago’s Magnificent Mile. Read about this social justice crusader from Kalamazoo College in a profile by author, historian, and columnist John Hallwas in the McDonough County (Illinois) Voice.
K Professor Honored at International Conductors’ Competition
Andrew Koehler, associate professor of music at Kalamazoo College and music director of the Kalamazoo Philharmonia and the Kalamazoo Junior Symphony Orchestra, was recently honored at the 9th Grzegorz Fitelberg International Competition for Conductors, one of the more prestigious international competitions for conductors of all nationalities born after 1976. The competition, held in Katowice, Poland, […]
The Physics of Immortality
The Goods are dead, but their good’s alive! Walter and William Good, both members of the Class of 1937, have been deceased from some time, but their legacy lives at the Kalamazoo Air Zoo. The Goods created the Guff, the first successful radio controlled aircraft, and a replica of the aircraft is now on permanent […]
K Students Will Benefit from Chemistry Grant Renewal
Professor of Chemistry Laura Furge has received a renewal of her National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to support continued research in the area of drug-drug interactions. She will conduct this research with undergraduate science students at Kalamazoo College. Adverse drug-drug interactions are common among individuals who take multiple drugs (both over the counter and […]
K Alumnus’ Documentary Film Nominated for an Oscar
A documentary film by David France ’81 titled “How to Survive a Plague,” about the early years of the AIDS epidemic, is one of five in the category to be nominated for an Oscar Award. Oscar nomination is not the only recognition France has received for his film. The Gothic Independent Film Awards and the […]
Dean’s List Fall 2012
Congratulations to the following Kalamazoo College students, who achieved a grade point average of 3.5 or better for a full-time course load of at least three units, without failing or withdrawing from any course, during the Fall 2012 academic term. Fall 2012 A B C D E F G H I J K L M […]
K Writer-in-Residence Publishes Multiple Works
Writer In Residence Diane Seuss has been hard at work, and the result is a prolific fall and winter. Her poem “Either everything is sexual or nothing is, take this flock of poppies,” appears in the 2013 edition of the Pushcart Prize anthology, which is hot off the presses. And her poem “Oh four-legged girl, […]
Just Lead: K’s Jaime Grant Pens Huffington Post Op-Ed
Jaime Grant, executive director of K’s Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership, wrote an op-ed piece entitled “Just Lead” that appears in the Dec 6, 2012 Huffington Post. In it, she praises “the power of community in motion; the power of innovative, just collaboration.” Grant’s piece coincides with the launch of the Kalamazoo College Global Prize for […]
Kalamazoo College Establishes Global Prize for Collaborative Social Justice Leadership
Kalamazoo College officials announced today the establishment of the Kalamazoo College Global Prize for Collaborative Social Justice Leadership, a biennial $25,000 prize that honors an innovative and collaborative leadership project in the pursuit of social justice and human rights anywhere in the world. The inaugural $25,000 Social Justice Leadership Prize will be awarded May 11, […]