Kalamazoo College’s Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership will host “A Summit on Social Justice in the Academy,” January 17-19, 2013 on the K campus. Social justice scholars, thought leaders, activists, and program directors from the United States, Kenya, and South Africa will examine the integration of social justice into higher education. Two “Summit” events, […]

Two public events of note on the Kalamazoo College campus Friday Jan. 11. And one on Saturday. “Everyone Has a Steak In It: Implications of How We Eat at K.” The Winter Quarter Week One Community Reflections is co-sponsored by K’s Mary Jane Underwood Stryker Institute for Service-Learning. Join students and faculty as they share personal stories and […]

On the program’s fifth anniversary, the Guilds of Kalamazoo College announced the addition of two new guilds and the re-christening of two others. An open house to celebrate this growth and evolution will occur Wednesday, January 9, from 6 PM to 8 PM in the Center for Career and Professional Development resource room on the […]

Stephanie (Harker) Schau ’90 is the 2012 recipient of the John E. Oster Award, which recognizes teaching excellence in the Sturgis (Mich.) Public School system. Stephanie was a member of Phi Beta Kappa at K and was selected for the James Bird Balch Prize for Outstanding Senior Studying American History.

I’ve been on a walk with Henry David Thoreau—not literally, of course, but a second reading (or multiple readings) of Walden can seem like an attentive wood-or-wetland perambulation with its author. I came across this: “At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be […]

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 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 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 […]

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.

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 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 […]

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 […]