May 23, 2005
Initiative in Islamic Studies Echoes Efforts of Generations Past
One of only two Indiana colleges to secure a grant from the competitive Ball Foundation Venture Fund in 2004-05, Earlham will use its $30,000 award to launch a new program in Islamic Studies, in a sense retracing the path the College took to promote understanding and appreciation of another people and culture during a time of conflict more than 60 years ago.
May 15, 2005
Boston Globe: "Big Wheel on Campus Rides to Help Afghans"
Earlham alum Zach Warren ‘03 is making quite an impression on his new friends and neighbors in Cambridge, Mass. — where he is a first-year graduate student at Harvard Divinity School — riding through town atop an oversize unicycle as he trains for a world record attempt in speed unicycling in October. Far from a pursuit of personal fame, however, as the Boston Globe reports Warren is making the world record bid in hopes of raising $10,000 for a children’s circus in war-torn Afghanistan.
May 11, 2005
Earlham Professors' Discovery is Cause for New Celebration
For the first time since 1982, when Earlham researchers Ray Hively and Robert Horn announced their discovery of the purpose behind an ancient Native American construction in nearby Newark, Ohio, — that of giant lunar observatory — the public in October will have an opportunity to share in a rare celestial event.
May 05, 2005
Peabody Award for Radio Producer Paulson
With an announcement from the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, alumnus Steve Paulson ‘81 becomes the latest Earlham graduate to be honored with a prestigious Peabody Award — considered by many to be the Pulitzer Prize of radio and television programming — for his work as executive producer of the weekly Wisconsin Public Radio show To the Best of Our Knowledge.
May 03, 2005
Flower Power: Horticulturist Hirsch Prepares "Special" Enrty for Famous Show
Assisted by of a group of special needs students in England, where she now lives, Earlham alumna Jennifer Hirsch ‘92 has created a dramatic “Peace is Special” garden design for this year’s Chelsea Flower Show, considered by most horticulture enthusiasts to be the world’s greatest flower and garden exhibition. Hirsch says the focus of her entry, which combines more than 1,200 plants with lengths of barbed wire (twisted into trellises) and sections of shrapnel-shredded metal (become sculpture), is to illustrate how the landscape of war can be regenerated into one of peace.