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Fulbright Allows Student to Retrace Her Heritage in Lithuania

Fulbright Allows Student to Retrace Her Heritage in Lithuania

Imagine an opportunity to travel abroad, retrace your heritage, teach English in a foreign country, greet family you’ve never known and promote international understanding between cultures. Katie Johnson ’18 will have that opportunity through a Fulbright U.S. Student Program grant that will take her to Lithuania this fall. Johnson – a business major and psychology […]

Choral Concert Centers Around Love Affairs, Obsessions

Choral Concert Centers Around Love Affairs, Obsessions

The College Singers, a 24-voice choral ensemble that specializes in social justice-themed programming, will perform its concert titled “EXCESS: Shadows of Pleasure and Power” in two free, public performances in Kalamazoo. The first will take place at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 30, at First Congregational Church and the second at 3 p.m. Sunday, June 3, […]

Student Named a YWCA Young Achiever

Student Named a YWCA Young Achiever

Kalamazoo College Civic Engagement Scholars (CES) are continuing to rack up honors as Alexandrea “Lexi” Ambs ’18 receives one of the Kalamazoo YWCA’s Young Women of Achievement Awards. In her CES role, Ambs, a member of the Kalamazoo College women’s swimming and diving team, has been a leader in a partnership between the College’s Mary […]

Posse Founder to Speak at 2018 Commencement

Posse Founder to Speak at 2018 Commencement

Kalamazoo College will celebrate its relationship with the acclaimed Posse Foundation when it welcomes the organization’s president and founder, Deborah Bial, as its 2018 Commencement speaker June 17. Since 2009, Posse has sent 10 students — a “Posse” — a year to K from Los Angeles. Each Posse add its varied experiences in the nation’s […]

Vegan Desserts Event Gives Students Hands-On Fun

Vegan Desserts Event Gives Students Hands-On Fun

Being a student at Kalamazoo College means discovering new opportunities to get involved everywhere you look on campus, even where you eat. Kalamazoo College Dining Services on Thursday offered students hands-on fun with a vegan desserts class taught by Sarah Ross, a Dining Services baker with 20 years of experience in the food-preparation industry. Although […]

Champs Award for Civic Engagement Scholars Spotlights Experiential Learning

Champs Award for Civic Engagement Scholars Spotlights Experiential Learning

Experiential learning is getting renewed emphasis at Kalamazoo College, and there’s new evidence of its value as Communities in Schools of Kalamazoo presents an annual Champs award to a group of the College’s Civic Engagement Scholars (CES). Each year, the Mary Jane Underwood Stryker Center for Civic Engagement trains and supports more than 20 Civic […]

Baseball Player Makes a Surprise Proposal

Baseball Player Makes a Surprise Proposal

It was always going to happen. Connor Grant ’18 and Kelsey Corless had known each other since seventh grade in Lake Orion, Michigan. They were high school sweethearts. And though he went to Kalamazoo College while she attended Grand Valley State University, they remained committed to one another. “We talked about it and she knew […]

Festival Playhouse Stages ‘Intimate Apparel’

Festival Playhouse Stages ‘Intimate Apparel’

The Kalamazoo College Festival Playhouse will present its final production of the academic year, “Intimate Apparel,” May 17-20 at the Nelda K. Balch Playhouse, 129 Thompson St. The play – which addresses race, love and dreams – is set in a New York City boardinghouse in the early 1900s. It concerns Esther, a young African-American […]

Journalist to Deliver Hilberry Symposium Keynote

Journalist to Deliver Hilberry Symposium Keynote

The Kalamazoo College English Department will conduct its annual Hilberry Symposium, which honors English majors and their Senior Individualized Projects, this Friday and Saturday. Lauren Trager ’07, an investigative journalist for KMOV-TV in St. Louis, will kick off the event with a keynote at 6:30 p.m. Friday in the Olmsted Room. Trager has spent most […]

Award Recognizes Stull’s Love of Teaching

Award Recognizes Stull’s Love of Teaching

Ask students what they admire about Kalamazoo College economics and business Senior Instructor Chuck Stull and they’ll tell you he’s always there when they need his help and advice. So it should come as no surprise that being able to mentor students is one of the main things Stull enjoys about teaching. “I just love […]

Events Offer Students Opportunities in the Sciences

Events Offer Students Opportunities in the Sciences

Two Kalamazoo College events coming soon will give students new experiences and learning opportunities in the sciences. First, Brendan Bohannan – a professor of environmental studies and biology at the University of Oregon – will present a keynote address titled “Host-Microbe Systems: a Rediscovered Frontier in the Life Sciences” in the annual Diebold Symposium from […]