About 70 first-year students—including Sarah Werner and her family from Clinton Township, Mich., photographed here—arrived August 16 to begin their Kalamazoo College journey via LandSea, an optional 18-day wilderness backpacking, climbing, canoeing, glad-I-brought-my-bug spray experience in Adirondack State Park, a six-million-acre tract in northern New York. After checking out their gear, the campus, and each […]

Two Kalamazoo College undergraduates are among 39 local college and university students selected to work with Kalamazoo area businesses as part of the summer 2012 Monroe-Brown Internship cohort. Umang Varma ’15 is a marketing IT intern at LKF Marketing in downtown Kalamazoo, and Ashton Galloway ‘13 is an IT intern at BASIC in Portage. Umang […]

Wen Chao Chen, Ph.D., a farmer’s son from rural China who became a celebrated Kalamazoo College educator and civic leader, died August 13, 2012, at Friendship Village in Kalamazoo. He was 92. “Dr. Wen Chao Chen was an extraordinarily loving person,” said Kalamazoo College President Eileen Wilson-Oyelaran. “He especially loved Kalamazoo College and the Kalamazoo […]

Maintaining good human health depends in part on reliable markers. Think blood pressure in cardiovascular medicine or blood sugar and triglyceride levels in determining the effects of diet on metabolic disorders. Reliable markers are important for ecological health as well, which is why science seeks them. Associate Professor of Biology Ann Fraser and five Kalamazoo […]

Marian Heller ’84 is involved with an art project called “Kokopelli Rising,” part of the Burning Man annual art event that will take place August 27 through September 3 in Black Rock City, Nevada. Marian informed the artists about Katherine Hoover’s flute composition “Kokopelli,” (played by Marian in a live performance). Marian will record the […]

Several Hornets have settled in Wolverine territory this summer, taking advantage of the resources at a large research university by interning in offices and laboratories throughout Ann Arbor. The Kalamazoo College’s Center for Career and Professional Development caught up with four of them: Psychology major Megan Martinez ’13 is working to understand links between social, […]

Kalamazoo College is seeking comments from the public about the College in preparation for its periodic evaluation by its regional accrediting agency. The College will host a visit October 1-3, 2012, with a team representing the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association. Kalamazoo College has been accredited by the Commission since 1915. The […]

Caleb Kline ’13 has been posting green gains on the College’s Sustainability Web site. It’s worth a look-see. One of his latest articles describes the installation of VendingMisers. The devices allow vending machines to power down when no one’s around. Their installation in the campus’s 11 beverage vending machines will reduce the College’s carbon footprint […]

From Santa Monica, California, to Silver Spring, Maryland, from Kenya to the United Kingdom, Kalamazoo College student interns and externs are hard at work this summer, honing marketable skills, gaining experience, and building relationships with professionals in various fields.  Through the Center for Career and Professional Development’s Discovery Externship and Field Experience Programs, 39 externs […]

Fifteen K students, faculty, and staff members are in India performing Kahani, a unique theatrical collaboration of the College’s Theatre Arts Department, Center for International Programs, and Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership, first performed on campus in May. Read their blog posts, see their photos and video, and send them good wishes at http://kzookahani.blogspot.com

Sarah Lindley, Art, was one of several featured artists who participated in an exhibition titled “Acts of Recognition.” The exhibition took place at Kendall College, and according to a recent review comprised “an offering of small and heroic acts of grace that perpetuate self-reflection.” The title of Lindley’s piece is “Abandon.” The critic lauded the […]

Assistant Professor of Religion Taylor Petrey is among and growing national cadre of scholars of Mormonism. He is the author of a much discussed recent article, “Toward a Post-Heterosexual Mormon Theology,” published in Dialogue, an independent Mormon journal, and on July 2 he was quoted in “The Mormon Lens on American History,” an article published […]