Kalamazoo College students exemplified personal excellence with their accomplishments around campus and around the world in 2024. Based on your clicks, here are their top stories from the past year. Watch for our top news stories of faculty and staff, alumni and the College itself coming soon.
10. Horse Sense Guides Equestrian Team
You might be chomping at the bit to attend a football game when you visit campus—but hold your horses. Find out first about some student-athletes in another sport, who are just as proud as their peers to represent K.
9. Project Puts Inclusive Spin on Classic Game
Drawing on scholarly literature, Maddie Hurley ’24 designed new elements to the Game of Life and analyzed the concepts of happiness and heteronormativity for the course Feminist and Queer Inquiries.
8. Phi Beta Kappa Welcomes New Inductees
Kalamazoo College’s Delta Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa welcomed 38 new members in June, recognizing their exceptional scholastic achievements across a wide range of disciplines.
7. Computer Science Team Impresses at Programming Contest
Chau Ta ’25, Benjamin Whitsett ’27 and Cole Koryto ’25 represented K in a computer science contest where they bested five teams from the University of Michigan, a team from Michigan State and a team from Harvard among others.
6. Silent Film Festival Screens Student’s Creativity
A love of classic movies helped Grace Cancro ’25 win her age group at the International Youth Silent Film Festival Detroit regional with her production, A Deadly Affair.
5. Hungary Satisfies Student’s Hunger for Neuroscience
Vivian Schmidt ’25 might one day advance the fight against neurological disorders such as ALS, Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease. Her recent study abroad experience is one reason why.
K’s squad earned an Honorable Mention Delegation award at the National Model United Nations in New York in April, and several awards at the Midwest Model UN conference in St. Louis in February.
3. Six New Heyl Scholars Choose K
Heyl scholarships have enabled hundreds of high school graduates from Kalamazoo County to attend Kalamazoo College for STEM-focused majors or Western Michigan University for nursing, with renewable benefits for up to four years that cover tuition, fees, housing and a book allowance.
2. Student-Athlete, Business Major Finds Passion for Filmmaking
In a pivot prompted by Kalamazoo College’s flexible curriculum, Ian Burr ’24 heeded a call for “lights, camera, action” in New York while discovering a potential lifelong passion.
1. Thailand Lessons Influence Student, City’s First Read Along
From a prestigious science scholarship to a transformative study abroad experience in Thailand, a seat on the Climate Action Plan committee, and an impactful internship with the City of Kalamazoo, Emerson Wesselhoff ’25 has immersed herself in opportunities that bring her passion for sustainability to life.
