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Kalamazoo College’s Career Center Growing Stronger

Two new reports recently released by the Center for Career and Professional Development (CCPD) document an increase in student and alumni use of CCPD programs and chart the first post-graduate destinations of the Kalamazoo College class of 2012. The 2012 CCPD Annual Report is the unit’s first. CCPD has conducted “Life After K” surveys since […]

Oscar Nominated Documentary Continues to Make News

Even though the Oscar-nominated documentary “How to Survive a Plague” (by David France ’81) did not win the Oscar, it continues to garner a great deal of attention. ABC Studios has bought rights to France’s film with the idea of potentially making it into a dramatic miniseries. France, who co-wrote and directed the documentary, would […]

Jaime Franks ’10 Featured by Social Workers Michigan Chapter

Jaime Franks ’10 Featured by Social Workers Michigan Chapter

Jaime Franks ′10 is featured in the Jan-Feb 2013 magazine of the National Association of Social Workers — Michigan Chapter. Jaime is pursuing an advanced degree in social work at Wayne State University. After graduation, she intends to help children and adolescents in a hospital setting. While at Kalamazoo College, Jaime played on the women’s […]

David France ’81 Talks about His Oscar-nominated Documentary on NPR

David France ’81 Talks about His Oscar-nominated Documentary on NPR

David France ’81 was interviewed on the National Public Radio program “Here and Now” on Friday March 8 talking about “How to Survive a Plague,” his Oscar-nominated documentary about the early days of the AIDS crisis and the response to that crisis by activists, health officials, politicians, and the public. David will host a showing […]

K Students Participate in Japanese Speech Contest

K Students Participate in Japanese Speech Contest

The 18th Michigan Japanese Language Speech Contest, sponsored by the Consulate General of Japan in Detroit, was held at the Novi Civic Center this winter. Two Kalamazoo College students, senior Pavan Policherla and sophomore Vageesha Liyana-Gunawardana, presented their speeches. Policherla’s talk was based on his study abroad experience in China and explored a challenging and […]

Lamprey Research Unlocks Secrets of Vertebrate Evolution

The work of biology professor James Langeland, as part of a large international consortium, was published in the journal Nature Genetics, one of the top 10 science journals worldwide. Langeland has been part of the consortium working on sequencing and elucidating the genome of the sea lamprey (the simplest of living vertebrates and a species […]

K Professor Wins Routledge Prize

Dennis J. Frost’s article, “Tokyo’s Other Games: The Origins and Impact of the 1964 Paralympics,” has been chosen the winner of the Routledge Prize for the best article published in the International Journal of the History of Sport in 2012. The article appeared in the March issue of the Journal that year. Frost is the […]

K Senior’s Documentary Poetry Project Cited in “Gay Military Signal”

English major Gabriella Donofrio ’13 completed what English professor Diane Seuss calls “a remarkable Senior Individualized Project!” Donofrio wrote a book of documentary poetry about life in the military (before and after the repeal of the “Don’t Ask; Don’t Tell” policy) for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and queer soldiers serving their country. She was on study […]

Author will speak at K about journalism and fiction

Author will speak at K about journalism and fiction

Author and former New York Times reporter Amy Waldman will visit Kalamazoo College on March 6 to discuss the balance between journalism and fiction writing. Waldman is the author of “The Submission,” a fictional novel about controversy surrounding a 9/11 memorial in New York. After a jury panel selects a design from an anonymous architect, […]

Busting Myths

Busting Myths

In 2012, “Redefining Asian” (aka Asiafest) received the “Program of the Year” award at the Black and Orange Awards Ceremony. In 2013 the Asian and Pacific Islander Student Association (APISA), formerly known as Asian Student Association (ASA), produced another spectacular Asiafest: “Mythbusters.” The show took place in a Dalton Theatre packed with by campus and […]

Public Art and Artistic Truth Lecturer at K

Public Art and Artistic Truth Lecturer at K

Kalamazoo College will host two public lectures on “Artistic Truth” and “Public Art” by Lambert Zuidervaart, Ph.D., professor of philosophy at the Institute for Christian Studies in Toronto and a member of the graduate faculties in theology and philosophy at the University of Toronto. He was recently appointed Director of ICS’s Centre for Philosophy, Religion, […]