Among those celebrating their academic achievements during Earlham's Baccalaureate and Commencement on Saturday, May 3 will be the College’s first graduating group of Davis United World College Scholars. Earlham's Class of 2008 is made up of students from 37 U.S. states and 24 countries, including 11 Davis Scholars. President Douglas C. Bennett will personally confer 294 Bachelor of Arts degrees and 46 master's degrees during the ceremony.
Influential Earlham alumni with careers in education come together to raise awareness of the problem of declining percentages of minority educators in secondary schools on March 8.
The Ahn Trio’s “Classical Music in the Digital Age” energetically explores the boundaries of chamber music With a multicultural assortment of composers and musicians on Wednesday, March 5, at Richmond's Civic Hall Performing Arts Center. The event is a part of Earlham's Artist and Lecture Series.
Mark Drabenstott '77, founding director of the Rural Policy Research Institute's National Center for Regional Competitiveness, returns to Earlham and offers economic development advice to the Richmond area during a lecture on Monday, Feb. 25, 2008.
The next president should use an expanded Peace Corps to impede negative perception of the United States, says Kevin Quigley. The president and chief executive officer of the National Peace Corps Association is Earlham's next convocation speaker on Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2008.
Internationally recognized as one of the earliest biotechnology researchers and developers, David Stump '72 returns to speak at Earlham College — the place where he first learned to put science in a global and human context. Stump, a physician and scientist who is executive vice president of Human Genome Sciences Inc., presents "Engaging Genes: At the Intersection of Biotechnology and Medicine" during an Earlham convocation beginning at 1 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 30, in Carpenter Hall's Goddard Auditorium. The event is free and open to the public.
The energetic music of Cuba will fill Earlham College's Goddard Auditorium on Saturday, Jan. 26, when Tiempo Libre brings its dance-inducing sounds to town. Grammy-nominated Tiempo Libre is well known for its timba music, a relatively new style of dance music that draws from funk, jazz, classical and traditional Cuban rhythms. Tickets, which are available at the Runyan Center desk, are $5 for adults and $3 for students and seniors.
Christopher Edley, Jr., dean of the law school at the University of California at Berkeley and former member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, will address "The Future of the Civil Rights Movement" on Monday, Jan. 21, in Goddard Auditorium.
Geologist Brian Atwater comes to Earlham College on Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2007, to present "The Orphan Tsunami of 1700 — A Trans-Pacific Detective Story," as a part of Earlham's convocation series. A fascinating tale, Atwater connects a severe Pacific Northwest Coast earthquake with a destructive Japanese coastal tsunami.
The renowned political comedy troupe, The Capitol Steps, will entertain audiences with two shows in Earlham's Goddard Auditorium during Homecoming Weekend.
The Earlham College Concert Choir, Madrigal Singers and Orchestra will each perform during Earlham's Family Weekend Concert on Saturday, Oct. 6. The music begins at 7:30 p.m. in Carpenter Hall's Goddard Auditorium. The concert is free and open to the public.
Miami3, a trio of celebrated music faculty from Miami University, will perform a concert of crossover music on Sunday, Oct. 7, during Earlham College's Meetinghouse Concert. The music begins at 4 p.m. in Earlham's Stout Meetinghouse. Admission is free, and the public is invited. The program includes Afternoon Cakewalk — A Suite of Rags arranged by William Bolcom, and two pieces from The Garden of Eden: Four Rags for Piano composed by Bolcom, a Pulitzer Prize-winning and Grammy Award-winning American composer, who developed a style of playing ragtime that put in him in the forefront of the ragtime revival in the 1970s.
The Co-Chair of the Iraq Study Group and the Vice-Chairman of the 9/11 Commission, Lee H. Hamilton comes to the Earlham campus to present an extremely timely address on September 27, 2007. Hamilton, who served in the U.S. House as a Representative from Indiana for more than 30 years, is one of the most respected voices on foreign policy and the U.S. response to global terror.
Dr. Manning Marable '71 presents "Diversity and Democracy in Higher Education: Making Multiculturalism Work" at Convocation on Sept. 19, in Goddard Auditorium. He's a national leader in the development of Web-based, educational resources on the African American experience.
Arn Chorn-Pond, a Cambodian refugee, has dedicated his life to building peace through art. He presents "Healing and Restoring Cambodia through the Arts" on Sept. 25, in Goddard Auditorium. This Artist and Lecture Series event is sponsored by the Kazue Fukuda Hawkins Endowed Fund.
Earlham’s Wei Cheng conducts the combined efforts of four high school choirs, the College’s Concert Choir, professional soloists and the Richmond Symphony Orchestra at the Earlham Invitational High School Choral Festivalttp://www.earlham.edu/publicaffairs/content/pressroom/archive/2007/march/070323s-festival.php on April 14, at the Richmond Civic Hall Performing Arts Center.
Joe Volk, executive secretary of the Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL), will discuss the danger of the United States and Iran stumbling into an “”accidental war during a visit to Earlham College on Thursday, March 8. The talk begins at 7:30 p.m. in the Landrum Bolling Center’s Loose Lecture Hall.
Four-time Grammy nominee Angélique Kidjo brings her spunky, electrifying performance to Earlham College on Saturday, March 3. Kidjo’s appearance is part of Earlham’s Artist and Lecture Series and is the highlighted event in the International Festival Celebration honoring the 50th anniversary of the College’s international programs. The concert begins at 7:30 p.m. in Carpenter Hall’s Goddard Auditorium.
Must society or African Americans themselves do more to close the gap between the levels of minority opportunity and minority achievement in America? United Negro College Fund President and CEO Dr. Michael Lomax will consider the question on Oct. 9 in Goddard Auditorium.
Harmonica virtuoso John Popper and the rest of Grammy Award-winning band Blues Traveler will rock Earlham’s Athletics and Wellness Center during a Homecoming and Reunion Weekend concert beginning at 8:30 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 13.
George Lakoff, University of California at Berkeley distinguished professor of linguistics and cognitive science, says that by seizing command of the language early in the 2004 U.S. presidential election GOP strategists cornered Democratic nominee John Kerry and his supporters in a contextual “frame” from which they were never able to escape, to their doom. Lakoff kicks off the College’s annual Artist and Lecture Series for the 2006-07 academic year at 7 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 18, in Goddard Auditorium on campus.
Heralded dance performer and choreographer Bebe Miller ‘71 and controversial environmental and political activist Michael Shellenberger ‘93 are among the scheduled presenters for academic convocations on campus during Fall Semester ‘06.