Kate Belew ’15 and Di Seuss, English, have received the Pierce Cedar Creek Institute for Environmental Education’s Nature in Words Fellowship for the summer of 2012. Following Fellowship guidelines, students apply with a mentor from one of the consortium institutions.  Kate proposed that she will write a collection of poems inspired by Professor Emeritus of English Conrad Hilberry’s object poems in his chapbook The […]

Two Kalamazoo College alumni and one current student have combined to earn three of the 23 national fellowships awarded this year by Alpha Lambda Delta honor society for outstanding students who are working towards a graduate or professional degree. Emma Perry ’08, pursing a graduate degree in English at Boston University, received a $5,000 award. Amel […]

Ed Baker, former Kalamazoo College football coach and physical education professor, has been named to the Athletic Hall of Fame at Haverford High School in Havertown, Pennsylvania, west of Philadelphia. He was athletic director at Haverford from 1959 to 1967 and head football coach from 1958 to 1966. He won three league titles as football […]

George Acker, longtime Kalamazoo College coach and physical education professor who died in July 2011, has been named to the Michigan Sports Hall of Fame. Coach Acker served at K for 35 years (1958-93), coaching men’s tennis teams to seven NCAA Division III championships while winning 35 consecutive MIAA championships. His tennis teams were 537-231 […]

Emily Townsend ’13 volunteered at the Uweza Journalism Club in Nairobi, Kenya, during the final weeks of her study abroad at University of Nairobi. Earlier, she interned at Voice of Kibera FM radio station. Read about Emily on the Uweza Aid Foundation blog.

Obayemi Onafuwa ’96, who writes under the pen name Teju Cole, has won the 2012 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for a distinguished first book of fiction for Open City. Cole will receive a $10,000 prize from the Hemingway Foundation and PEN New England, as well as a residency in The Distinguished Visiting Writers Series at the University of Idaho’s […]

Catherine (Rutherford) McCann ’55 was a longtime resident and public servant of South Miami, Florida. She served 10 years as city commissioner and four years as mayor. McCann passed away on April 19, 2009, at age 75. But recently, family and friends gathered to honor her legacy with the naming of Cathy McCann Drive in South […]

Kiran Cunningham ’83, Anthropology, has been appointed a Teagle Pedagogy Fellow by the Great Lakes Colleges Association (GLCA). She is one of 20 Teagle Fellows chosen from GCLA member colleges for their knowledge of research on human learning and pedagogical technique, as well as for their strong interest in enhancing liberal arts teaching and learning. […]

Colleen Leonard ’12 examines results from the first-ever salary survey conducted by the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) in the February/March 2012 issue of Coaching Volleyball, an AVCA publication. She drew valuable conclusions from coaches at all levels of NCAA competition for “Money Talks: AVCA Salary Survey Analysis,” an article she researched and wrote as part of […]

Phunny Business: A Black Comedy, produced, written, and directed by John Davies ’75 debuted Thursday, February 23, on Showtime. The documentary chronicles the rise and fall of All Jokes Aside, a Chicago-based comedy venue considered by many to be the preeminent black comic showcase in America throughout the 1990s. The club provided early exposure to major talent […]

When alumni mentor seniors doing their Senior Individualized Projects it can lead to co-authorship of published papers. The proof: Rebecca (Becky) Tonietto ’05 and Katherine (Katie) Ellis ’09. The two are coauthors of the paper “A comparison of bee communities of Chicago green roofs, parks and prairies,” which appeared in the journal Landscape and Urban Planning 103 (2011) 102-108. Tonietto […]

Ed Mamou ’00 is owner of The Root in White Lake, the Detroit Free Press 2012 Restaurant of the Year.