“Twelfth Night” Coming to Festival Playhouse
A Shakespearean comedy featuring a shipwreck, a love triangle and a secret identity is coming soon to Kalamazoo College. The Festival Playhouse will present Twelfth Night, known as one of Shakespeare’s liveliest comedies and a complex look at love and gender identity, as its spring production. In the play, Duke Orsino of Illyria falls in […]
K Student Selected for National Theatre Event
A top-honors finish in a recent theatre regional event led Rebecca Chan ’22 to an even bigger stage in April. Chan, a theatre major from Howell, Michigan, has returned from the week-long Kennedy Center American College Theatre National Festival in Washington, D.C., where she was one of only four students from around the country to […]
International Jazz Day Gives K Reason to Toot its Own Horn
There are days during the year when it makes sense for Kalamazoo College to toot its own horn. International Jazz Day is one of them, as the College’s Jazz Band is known for its well-attended, quality performances popular with the musicians themselves and audiences alike. According to its website, International Jazz Day — celebrated each […]
Get Versed in National Poetry Month
If your knowledge of poetry is limited, April is the perfect time to expand your horizons and practice your writing. That’s because it’s National Poetry Month, and Assistant English Professor Oliver Baez Bendorf has creatively developed ways for students to hone their skills and develop their interests in poetry to celebrate. Among his classes, Baez […]
YouTube Math Pioneer, Author to Speak at K
A YouTube math pioneer, author, pianist and scientist interviewed on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” and featured in the New York Times, Wired and the Wall Street Journal will deliver two lectures on Wednesday, May 1, 2019, at Kalamazoo College. Eugenia Cheng, Ph.D., the Scientist in Residence at the School of the Art Institute […]
Moritz Lecture Features Stanford Professor
An award-winning Stanford University professor known for his published writings in the Journal of Asian Studies, Aeon and Foreign Policy, and for being featured by The Atlantic, will visit Kalamazoo College to deliver the annual Moritz Lecture at 7 p.m. Thursday, May 2, 2019, at 103 Dewing Hall. Thomas S. Mullaney is a professor of […]
K Honors Outstanding Employees at Founders Day Event
Don Mack, Kalamazoo College director of technical and media services, is this year’s recipient of the Lux Esto Award of Excellence. The award, given Friday at the annual Founders Day Community Reflection marking the College’s 186th year, recognizes an employee who has served the institution for at least 26 years and has a record of […]
‘Ambassador of Science’ Earns NSF Graduate Fellowship
Each year, up to $100 billion worth of harvested food is lost worldwide to pests and microbes. A Kalamazoo College student’s research could hold part of the solution. Marco Ponce ’19, a biology major from San Diego, conducted his Senior Individualized Project (SIP) last summer under Rob Morrison, Ph.D., ’06, a research entomologist working for […]
Zhang Financial Contribution to Help Students
Zhang Financial, one of the nation’s top fee-only financial advisory firms, will help Kalamazoo College support key initiatives in its strategic plan, Advancing Kalamazoo College: A Strategic Vision for 2023. Their generous contribution will help to better position K students for their first jobs after graduation. Zhang Financial, based in Portage, Michigan, is establishing the […]
Winter 2019 Dean’s List
Congratulations to the following Kalamazoo College students, who achieved a grade-point average of 3.5 or better for a full-time course load of at least three units, without failing or withdrawing from any course, during the winter 2019 academic term. Students who elected to take a letter-graded course on a credit/no credit basis (CR/NC) are not […]
Career Summit 2019 Slated for April 12, 13
A distinguished group of Kalamazoo College alumni will provide students with two days of practical workforce preparation April 12 and 13 during Career Summit 2019. All students are welcome and encouraged to attend this special event targeting positive employment outcomes through the Center for Career and Professional Development. Through interactive break-out sessions, themed panel discussions […]
Influential Professor Noah Feldman to Deliver K’s Flesche Lecture
A respected law professor called “one of the stars of his generation” by Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan, and one of the “most influential people of the 21st century” by Esquire magazine will deliver the Donald C. Flesche Visiting Scholar Lecture at Kalamazoo College. Noah R. Feldman, the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard […]