A Child’s Struggle With Autism Consumes K Alumni Family
In 2004, Antonie Boessenkool ’99 wrote a LuxEsto article (“Homeward Bound”) that appeared in the fall issue that year about Matt ’94 and Kelli ’95 (Johnson) Stapleton. Their daughter Isabelle (Issy), at that time 5 years old, had recently been diagnosed with autism. The Stapletons currently live in Elberta, Michigan. Matt serves as principal of […]
Community Responds to Meningitis Case
Kalamazoo College sophomore Emily Stillman, 19, died this morning (Sunday, February 3) due to complications from bacterial meningitis. Emily was taken to Bronson Hospital around 2 AM Friday morning, February 1. K administration and the Student Health Center learned the diagnosis later that morning and immediately began to work in close collaboration with the Kalamazoo […]
Weathering Winter
“Cold Weather Catharsis” was the topic of Winter Quarter 2013 Week Three (Jan. 25) Community Reflection in Stetson Chapel. Co-sponsored by the Adventure Living Learning House , several speakers shared ideas on how to combat Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), spice up the season, stay active, and release the pent-up energy of winter. Chaplain Liz Candido […]
K Grad at Work on Basketball Musical
Ben Harpe ’09 is a cast member of “The Lockout: An NBA Musical,” written by Jason Gallagher and Ben Fort and to be produced by their company Six Hours Short. And Ben is also part of a the KickStarter project to record an album of the musical’s songs. You can see Ben (on left) belting […]
K Hoops Halftime Event To Benefit St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
Jessie Wagner ’04, a career development specialist in the Haworth College of Business at Western Michigan University, will be a special guest speaker at halftime of the Kalamazoo College men’s basketball game against Adrian College on February 13. (Tip off is 8 PM in the Anderson Athletic Center.) Jessie’s halftime appearance is part of a […]
K Undergraduate Poet is Up and Going
Winter term 2013 finds sophomore Kate Belew working as an intern at the Poet’s House in lower Manhattan. Another stop on the creative journey of this English major. As a first-year student Kate received the Nature in Words Fellowship at Pierce Cedar Creek Institute for Environmental Education (Hastings, Mich.). “It is an extraordinarily competitive fellowship,” […]
K Quality Assessment Noted by National Organization
The National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment has a mission to make learning outcomes usable and transparent. Toward that end, it created and made available to colleges and universities the NILOA Transparency Framework. NILOA’s website featured several early and effective adopters, including Kalamazoo College. Says Provost Mickey McDonald: “The College incorporated (with permission) some of […]
Perspectives on a Dream
“A Dream Deferred, A Dream Made Reality? Marking the 50th Anniversary of the ‘I Have a Dream Speech’” was the topic of the Winter Quarter 2013 Week Two (Jan. 18) Community Reflection in Stetson Chapel. Several speakers considered Martin Luther King, Jr.’s legacy in their own lives at K. Associate Dean of Students Karen Joshua-Wathel […]
Kalamazoo College alumna Jen Feuerstein ’93 talks about her chimps on NPR
Jen Feuerstein ’93 is sanctuary director of Save the Chimps, the world’s biggest sanctuary, based in Florida, for chimpanzees formerly used in research experiments or the entertainment industry, or as pets. Hear Jenn in a report on National Public Radio about a National Institutes of Health plan to retire nearly all of the more than 450 […]
Charles Holmes, MD ’93 Leads Effort to Combat Infectious Disease in Zambia
Charles Holmes ’93 was completing his medical education when he lived and worked for three months in Malawi in 1999. The AIDS epidemic there, uncontrolled, was peaking. Desperately sick people lay three to a bed in the Lilongwe hospital where Holmes worked, and where the best medicine on hand could only alleviate their agony until […]
Martin Luther King Jr. Convocation at K
Kalamazoo College’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. Convocation takes place Monday Jan. 21 at 10:50 a.m. in Stetson Chapel. Harvey Hollins III ’87 will deliver the Convocation address on the theme of Dr. King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, which was delivered 50 years ago this year. Mr. Hollins is Director of the State of Michigan’s […]
Renowned Professor and Public Servant To Speak at Kalamazoo College
Kenneth Marcus, the Lillie and Nathan Ackerman Chair in Equality and Justice in America at Baruch College of the City University of New York, will deliver a lecture titled “The Conundrum of Race: Civil Rights, Law, and Jewish Identity,” on Tuesday, January 29, at 7:30 P.M. in the Mandelle Hall Olmsted Room. The event is […]