Faculty Lectureships Calendar

September 24, 2012
V.S. Ramachandran on "What Neurology Can Tell Us about the Mind"
7:30 pm
Rosse Hall
Neuroscientist V.S. Ramachandran is director of the Center for Brain and Cognition at the University of California, San Diego. Richard Dawkins has called him "the Marco Polo of neuroscience," and Eric Kandel dubbed him "the modern Paul Broca." Ramachandran is the author of The Tell-Tale Brain and Phantoms in the Brain.
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October 25, 2012
Workshop for International Students: "How to Start a Paper"
11:10 am
Writing Center
Writing consultants present a workshop to international students about how to start a paper at Kenyon. The first of a series of three fall semester workshops.
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November 1, 2012
Founders' Day
11:10 am
Rosse Hall
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November 8, 2012
Flying Horse Farms Info Session
11:10 am
Peirce Lounge
Flying Horse Farms is where children with serious illnesses come to experience the magic of camp. For a week at a time, being sick takes a back seat to simply being a kid. And fun is priority number one. Located on 200 acres in Mt. Gilead, Ohio, the camp hosts more than 2,500 children each year - free of charge. Flying Horse Farms will offer information on Alcoa Sustainability Fellowships, camp jobs, and volunteer opportunities.
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December 6, 2012
Earth Day Challenge Training Kick Off Meeting
11:10 am
Kahler Theater (KAC 240)
The Earth Day Challenge Half Marathon and 4-Mile Foot Race will be hosted by Kenyon on April 21, 2013. Join the director (John Hofferberth) and codirector (Chris Gillen) to learn about the races and how to prepare for them. Look at training plans for the half marathon and the 4-mile run, talk about the courses and race-day strategy, ask questions, and meet other runners.
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January 15, 2013
Town Hall on Compensation Survey
11:00 am
Community Foundation Theater, Gund Gallery
Join PACT for this important Town Hall during which Garry Straker of Chernoff Diamond will present his compensation analysis findings to the campus. All employees are invited. The compensation analysis establishes a market value for both exempt and non-exempt positions, excluding collectively bargained employees. For those unable to attend, the presentation will be available via a live stream on the Internet: http://client.stretchinternet.com/client/kenyonadmin.portal#
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January 15, 2013
Projects for Peace Grant Workshop
11:10 am
Leech Dining Room, lower level of Peirce Hall
Are you interested in spending time next summer doing something important for the world? Have a great idea for a Project for Peace? Then you need to attend this essential grant-writing workshop. Learn how to write an effective proposal for your project. Through a competition on over 90 campuses, projects will be selected for funding at $10,000 each. Kenyon will select two prospective proposals to be submitted in this grant competition. In the past five years, Kenyon students have conducted projects in Nepal, Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, Russia, Nigeria and Guatemala. They helped build schools and houses, taught children how to use computers and sewing machines, gave blind students a kiln, and trained citizens in life-saving CPR. The deadline for submitting your proposal for the 2013 Projects for Peace summer program is Wednesday, January 30, 4:00 p.m.
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January 17, 2013
Barry Bandstra: Distance Learning at Hope College
11:00 am
Olin Auditorium
Barry Bandstra, the Evert J. and Hattie E. Blekkink Professor of Religion at Hope College, and the college's director of academic computing, will speak about his experiences teaching online courses in the summer at Hope College.
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January 31, 2013
Randy Stoecker: Community-Based Research and Service Learning
11:00 pm
Peirce Lounge
Randy Stoecker is a professor of community and environmental sociology at the University of Wisconsin, with a joint appointment at the University of Wisconsin Extension Center for Community and Economic Development. He will speak on his work on participatory action research and service learning.
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February 7, 2013
Student Curator Gallery Talk and Tour: Image and Ideology: Propaganda Posters from WWII
11:00 am
Gund Gallery
This Gund Associate-curated exhibition includes some of the most provocative examples of propaganda produced during World War II. Join us as Gund Gallery Associates -- students who work with the Gallery -- discuss this exhibition. Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of American Democracy and the Department of Political Science.
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February 26, 2013
Nutrition Speaker: Dawn Holmes, certified specialist in sports dietetics
11:10 am
Rosse Hall
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February 26, 2013
2013 Earth Day Challenge Common Hour Group Training Run
11:20 am
KAC Lobby
Join the race organizers and other participants for a two-part tour of the Earth Day Challenge course. During the first part of the tour, on Tuesday, February 26, we will run the "Gambier Loop." The Gambier Loop is the beginning of the half-marathon course and the entire 4-mile race course. The second run will take place on Thursday, March 21, and will cover the final 9 miles of the half-marathon course. Both training runs will depart the KAC lobby at 11:20 a.m. There will be three pace groups to accommodate as many participants as possible. Please join us!
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March 21, 2013
2013 Earth Day Challenge Common Hour Group Training Run
11:20 am
KAC Lobby
Join the race organizers and other participants for the second part of the tour of the Earth Day Challenge course. This run will cover the final 9 miles of the half-marathon course. The training run will depart the KAC lobby at 11:20 a.m. There will be three pace groups to accommodate as many participants as possible. Please join us!
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May 2, 2013
Being Trans* at Kenyon
11:00 am
Chadeayne Dining Hall
Charley Meins '11 will lead a discussion about his experience as a trans* Kenyon student.
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September 25, 2013
Michael Pollan Lecture
7:30 pm
Rosse Hall Auditorium
Bestselling author, journalist, and food movement legend, Michael Pollan is the author of Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation; The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals; and In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto.
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February 10, 2014
John Green '00
7:30 pm
Rosse Hall Auditorium
With Paper Towns, John Green won the 2009 Edgar Award for Best Young Adult Mystery. The New York Times bestselling author's work also includes Looking for Alaska, An Abundance of Katherines, and The Fault in Our Stars. John Green is the co-creator with his brother Hank of the videoblog Brotherhood 2.0
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