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Career Summit Featured Speaker: David Rust

Career Summit Featured Speaker: David Rust

Registration for Career Summit 2018 is now closed. Walk-ins will be accepted if space becomes available. A distinguished group of alumni will join Silicon Valley executives and venture capitalists for Career Summit 2018. The event is two days of practical preparation April 6 and 7 for Life after K. All students are welcome, regardless of […]

Career Summit Featured Speaker: Carolyn DeWitt ’04

Career Summit Featured Speaker: Carolyn DeWitt ’04

Registration for Career Summit 2018 is now closed. Students who are interested in attending but have not registered are welcome to stop by the registration table in the Hicks Student Center atrium before the session they would like to attend. Walk-ins will be accepted as space permits, especially on Saturday. See the Career Summit schedule […]

Career Summit Featured Speaker: Bill Duane ’94

Career Summit Featured Speaker: Bill Duane ’94

Registration for Career Summit 2018 is now closed. Students who are interested in attending but have not registered are welcome to stop by the registration table in the Hicks Student Center atrium before the session they would like to attend. Walk-ins will be accepted as space permits, especially on Saturday. See the Career Summit schedule […]

Lecture to Explore Intersection of Math and Music

Lecture to Explore Intersection of Math and Music

For David Kung, the relationship between math and music goes far beyond alliteration. The star of a series of popular video lectures explaining the applications of mathematics to the world around us, especially music, Kung will deliver the annual Kitchen Lecture, sponsored by the Kalamazoo College Department of Mathematics, at 8 p.m. Wednesday in Stetson […]

Music Concerts Feature Jazz Band, College Singers

Music Concerts Feature Jazz Band, College Singers

Be sure to attend two music concerts this weekend that will feature Kalamazoo College student performers. Both concerts will be at Dalton Theater in the Light Fine Arts Building. From 8 to 10 p.m. Friday, enjoy Kalamazoo College’s Jazz Band. The group, directed by Thomas G. Evans, pulls together an eclectic collection of contemporary and […]

K Plans Career Summit 2018 for April 6, 7

K Plans Career Summit 2018 for April 6, 7

About Career Summit 2018 A distinguished group of K alumni will join Silicon Valley executives and venture capitalists for Kalamazoo College’s Career Summit 2018. The event is two days of practical preparation April 6 and 7 for Life after K. All students are welcome and encouraged to attend this special event. Through interactive break-out sessions, […]

Armstrong Lecture to Focus on Religion, Racial Identity During Great Migration

Armstrong Lecture to Focus on Religion, Racial Identity During Great Migration

As African Americans and Afro-Caribbean immigrants poured into northern U.S. cities during the early 20th century, religious movements arose that offered them new identities as descendants of the Arab culture of North Africa, members of the “Lost Tribe” of Israel or simply humans free of racial labels. “While such groups frequently have been dismissed as […]

K Professor, Author a Finalist for George Washington Prize

K Professor, Author a Finalist for George Washington Prize

Kalamazoo College History Professor James Lewis has been named a finalist for the George Washington Prize, a $50,000 annual award that recognizes the authors of the past year’s most influential books about the nation’s founding era. Lewis’s 2017 book, “The Burr Conspiracy: Uncovering the Story of an Early American Crisis,” explores former Vice President Aaron […]

Astronomers Honor K Student for Her Research

Astronomers Honor K Student for Her Research

An organization of professional astronomers is honoring Kalamazoo College senior Hayley Beltz for her Senior Individualized Project and summer research, which Beltz presented to the group’s members. The Astronomy Achievement Student Awards, which were bestowed in January through the American Astronomical Society (AAS), recognize exemplary student presentations offered at its organizational meetings. Beltz’s research involved […]

Academy Street Winds Concert Slated for Saturday

Academy Street Winds Concert Slated for Saturday

Music lovers will gather at 8 p.m. Saturday for an Academy Street Winds concert at Dalton Theater in the Light Fine Arts Building. The Academy Street Winds, formerly known as the Kalamazoo College Symphonic Band, functions as a beloved creative outlet for woodwind, brass and percussion students. Community musicians joined the ensemble in winter 2016 […]

Distinguished Judge Testifies to Power of K-Plan

Distinguished Judge Testifies to Power of K-Plan

  Testifying to the enduring value of the K-Plan, renowned former U.S. District Judge Gerald Rosen ’73 told Kalamazoo College students in a campus visit that “it made me who I am.” “I’m a real product of the K-Plan,” said the recently retired judge, who presided over the Detroit-based U.S. Eastern District of Michigan and […]

Kalamazoo College is a Top Producer of Fulbright Students

Kalamazoo College is a Top Producer of Fulbright Students

Kalamazoo College is proud to be included on the list of U.S. colleges and universities producing the most Fulbright students for the 2017-18 academic year. The U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs announced the honor Sunday. Four K representatives out of 12 applicants were named Fulbright winners, placing the College among the top Fulbright-producing […]