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Siobhan Fennessy, professor of biology and environmental studies, has received a subaward as part of a $3.2 million grant via Ducks Unlimited.

Orchid Tierney, assistant professor of English, has been awarded a KHN Residency from the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts.

Jonathan Sherman, associate professor of film, debuted his directed/co-written film "They/Them/Us" on Oct. 29. It also won Best Comedy Feature at the San Diego Film Festival and Best Low-budget Feature Film at the Paris Independent Film Festival this week.

Julie Brodie, professor of dance, and Claudia Essilinger, professor of art, have collaborated in creating a short dance film, "Solus," which is being shown as part of this year’s Cleveland Dance Festival.

Keija Parssinen, assistant professor of English, published an essay titled "'It was No Arabian Nights at All:' Coming of Age in America’s Kingdom" in the October 2021 edition of The Common, an award-winning print and digital literary journal based at Amherst College.

Samantha Neilson ’23 has written another amazing article celebrating the incredible number of NSF CAREER grant recipients at Kenyon. If you want to learn more about the CAREER grant or the projects these faculty are working on, you will want to read this!

Kathy Gillen, assistant professor of biology, has published an article, "It Cuts Both Ways: An Annelid Model System for the Study of Regeneration in the Laboratory and in the Classroom," with co-authors Veronica G. Martinez Acosta, Fausto Arellano-Carbajal, Kay A. Tweeten, and Eduardo E. Zattara. The article was published November 2021 in Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology.

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