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Crais wins book prize

A book by Professor of History Clifton Crais has received the Ohio Academy of History's annual book prize. The Politics of Evil is being honored as an outstanding book, reflecting important archival research and innovative historical thought. The award will be presented on April 17 at the spring meeting of the Ohio Academy of History. A member of Kenyon's faculty since 1987, Crais specializes in African history.

De Pascuale named to hospital board

Associate Professor of Philosophy Juan De Pascuale has been elected to the board of trustees of Knox Community Hospital. The board works with the hospital administration and medical staff, providing leadership and guidance in major decisions such as expansion and the development of new services. De Pascuale has been a member of Kenyon's faculty since 1984.

Bernstein and Ma win Miller Awards

Senior Mara Bernstein and junior Jun Ma are the most recent recipients of the Franklin Miller Award. The Miller Awards are given to students who make unusual or significant contributions to the academic environment of the College.

Bernstein, an anthropology and art history double major, was recognized for her exceptional contributions to the 2002 Kenyon-Honduras Program. She directed ten local men in the excavation of an ancient household at the Late Classic (AD 600-800) center of Las Canoas. Bernstein then followed up her fieldwork with two presentations of her results, one to the 2003 Midwest Mesoamericanist conference and the other to the Society for American Archaeology. She was recognized for producing novel insights into Honduran prehistory based on innovative research.

Ma, who transferred to Kenyon from the College of Wooster, is an economics and mathematics double major. He was recognized for his outstanding work in the abstract algebra course, where students were invited to do a "challenge" problem involving questions to which the professor did not know the answer. Ma, the only student to accept the challenge, worked on his problem through the end of the semester and over winter break, creating an algorithm and computer program to explore the problem further.

The awards are named for Franklin Miller Jr., an emeritus member of the Kenyon faculty. They are funded by Edward T. Ordman, a 1964 graduate of the College, who is professor of mathematical sciences emeritus at the University of Memphis.