Harry Perez '08 was one of only 12 interns selected from more than 900 applicants for a prestigious internship at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Perez had applied for an internship in the Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas department, but because the lead curator of that department will be away this summer, Perez will intern in Public Relations.
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.
Juan Navarrete '08 is excited by the depth of the opportunity winning a prestigious Watson Fellowship has provided him to study the political cartooning tradition in Latin America.
For the second straight year, Earlham honored two Indiana high school educators with Distinguished Teacher Awards during the annual Indianapolis Star Indiana Academic All-Stars luncheon.
Peace will be promoted in two foreign countries and across the United States this summer thanks to three peace projects devised by five Earlham students. Two groups were funded by the Kathryn Wasserman Davis Projects for Peace and the additional project was funded by Earlham President Doug Bennett.
Sunday, March 30, 2008
This weekend the College lost a beloved member of the faculty. Peter Cline, 66, professor of history, passed away on Saturday, March 29, 2008, at Reid Hospital.
Peter planned to retire from Earlham in May after 32 years at the College. Friends had gathered in the Richmond Room at 4:00 p.m. on Friday for a retirement reception honoring their dear colleague. When Peter did not arrive, a colleague went to his residence and found him in distress. He was taken to Reid Hospital and sadly died the following afternoon.
Peter came to Earlham in 1976 with a B.A. from University of Wisconsin and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Stanford University. Deeply committed to the power of the liberal arts to enrich students' lives, Peter read widely, deeply and thoughtfully passing his vast knowledge on to his students. Colleagues will miss his gentle good humor and wise counsel.
Funeral plans are incomplete at this time.
Earlham librarians are at the forefront of encouraging students to use the many resources available on the Web as they perform research. As Wikipedia and YouTube change the ways in which students get information, librarians who are keeping up with trends find themselves among the tech-savviest people on campus. Earlham librarians Neal Baker and Sara Penhale tell us how technology has made the library one of the coolest spots on campus.
The Earlham Equestrian Team has had one of its best show seasons ever, and members attribute part of their success to the team’s enthusiastic spirit. Eight riders have qualified for the IHSA Regionals in April.
March 13, 2008, 4:30 p.m. -- The Earlham College community was saddened to learn this afternoon of the death of 20-year-old second-year student Kai Woods of Atlanta, Georgia. Her body was found in her residence hall room. Her parents have been notified.
Dean of Student Development Deb McNish confirmed the unfortunate occurrence today. McNish said that the College’s Student Development staff is cooperating fully with the police inquiry into the death, which is standard procedure in the event of any death on campus. According to Richmond Police Department Sgt. Brad Berner, no foul play is suspected.
Student Development staff will be available to students for counseling and support in the residence halls and in the Student Development Office until 10:00 p.m. this evening.
Additionally, the Student Development Office in Carpenter Hall, Campus Ministries in Virginia Cottage and Stout Meetinghouse will be available to students from 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. on Friday, March 14, 2008.
The Earlham community also may gather between noon and 1:00 p.m. in Stout Meetinghouse for silent reflection on Friday.
An accident occurred at the entrance to Earlham College at approximately 3:30 p.m., Wednesday, March 5, 2008. A student pedestrian crossing National Road (U.S. 40) was struck by a vehicle. Rural/Metro Ambulance transported the student to Reid Memorial Hospital. The student's condition has not yet been released. We do not know if there are any injuries at this time. Update: The student was examined and released without serious injuries.
Earlham President Douglas C. Bennett has been advocating for traffic regulation at the College's National Road entrance for some time.
The new Virtual Tour, the Earlhamite and the "Athletics@Earlham" brochure all were honored with Merit Awards in the Admissions Advertising Awards. Sponsored by Admissions Marketing Report, the contest is nation's largest educational advertising awards competition. The Virtual Tour is one of Earlham's newest tools on an increasingly interactive Web site. The Earlhamite is the oldest continually published alumni magazine in the United States.
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.
In addition to brochures and guidebooks, information about Earlham is now available on demand on any computer or MP3 player as the College launches its podcasting series.
Earlham has conducted the first test of its new system to notify the campus in the event of an emergency. The multi-modal system allows the College to send text messages, e-mails, and to call registered users.
Two Earlham graduates were among the group of eight young people selected by the American Friends Service Committee for the Next Generation of Peacemakers program held at the Nobel Peace Summit in Rome in December. Behar Xharra '07 and Greg Woods '07 interacted with such past Nobel laureates as Mikhail Gorbachev, Lech Walesa and the Dalai Lama. Read more in our alumni spotlight in Earlhamite Extras.
The thousands of hours Earlham students contribute to community service each year have earned the College a spot on the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll.
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.
Attributing much of his gridiron coaching success to his Earlham experiences on and off the field, Steve Specht '90 has guided St. Xavier High School in Cincinnati to Ohio Division I football championships in 2005 and 2007.
Earlham’s new Director of Facilities and Chief Environmental Officer Alan Bigger realizes the end result of his work in facilities and environmental management is the education of students. Bigger is the author of the recently-published book Frugalisms, a collection of his "The Frugal Housekeeper" columns.
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.
Colleges and universities nationwide are seeing increasing numbers of "stealth applicants" -- those prospective students whose first contact with the admissions office is their e-mailed application. Earlham Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid Jeff Rickey is watching this trend as it increases enrollment pools and changes the traditional relationship between colleges and prospective students.
Kathryn "Kat" Bearese has a passion for serving people with special needs. This enthusiasm for service helped her to be named a Bonner Scholar at Earlham and now has helped her to win a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship of $10,000 to spend three months in Quito, Ecuador, during the fall of 2008.
The Earlham Urgency Network, a multi-modal emergency communications system, will be signing up its first users during the Enrollment Confirmation process for the Spring Semester. The network, the result of significant planning by the College's Emergency Response and Recovery Planning (ERRP) Committee during the prior semester, will allow the College to communicate with students by e-mail, text message, and voice message in the event of an emergency on campus.
Four Earlham College Computer Science students bested other entrants to take the top spot in Scientific Computing during the education program at SC07, one of the world's largest supercomputing conferences. (See related story below on EC professor Charlie Peck.)
No one bested Associate Professor of Computer Science Charlie Peck's time in the Ultimate HPC Geek Contest sponsored by chip giant Intel at the 2007 Supercomputing Conference. Peck was crowned "Ultimate Geek" at the 2006 conference.
Nathan Rockwood '08 has found success by combining his love of writing with his love of role playing. The Earlham senior has co-authored four role playing game books, including the recently-released Battlestar Galactica Role Playing Game.
Earlham professor Lori Watson is part of a consortium bringing social networking to chemists and chemistry students across the country. The new electronic interface will enable inorganic chemists to share resources and ideas.
Thanks to the research and mapping efforts of Nadine Abdallah '08, documentation now exists about the underwater areas where countries dumped their stockpiles of chemical weapons and the environmental impact those dumpsites are having on our world's oceans today.
Earlham College has launched an interactive campus tour that uses Flash technology in combination with vast amounts of photos and video footage to provide visitors with a unique online experience. Created for Earlham by 361 Studios of Columbus, Ohio, the virtual tour is an invaluable resource for prospective students and others seeking information about Earlham's Richmond, Ind. campus.
Gregory Mahler, noted scholar and Earlham's academic dean, is heading to the West Bank to convene a workshop titled "Democratization and Reform in Palestine" this month.
According to a new report by the Institute of International Education, Earlham has the second-highest percentage of students who study abroad among U.S. baccalaureate schools. In addition to its study abroad programs, Earlham, a recipient of the Senator Paul Simon Campus Internationalization Award, hosts students from nearly 70 countries on its Richmond, Indiana campus.
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.
Results from the 2007 National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) which were released today confirm that Earlham is effectively engaging its students in active learning. The NSSE assessment, developed with support from The Pew Charitable Trusts and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching in 2001, asks first-year and senior students to report what they actually do while they are in college and focuses on the processes of learning.
We want 24,000 pounds of electronic waste! Earlham is holding its second Computer Recycle Event on Saturday, Nov. 11, in the Carpenter Hall parking lot. Director of Computing Services Tom Steffes is hoping to double the six tons of computers, cell phones and old televisions collected at last February's event. Electronics can be extremely hazardous to the environment if not disposed of properly.
Kaeko Matsumoto has discovered an "old favorite place" by studying literature during her year at Earlham College. The "second stage" student from Waseda University in Japan spent 25 years as a civil engineer before returning to school. When not studying, playing tennis or swimming, you can generally find the energetic Kaeko on her bicycle exploring Richmond.
Earlham's Graduate Programs in Education work to shift the emphasis in teacher education from the adult to the student. These programs are having a significant impact in our local school system, according to Debbie Rickey, director of the graduate programs. "In trying to be a good neighbor, we are making an impact locally," she says. "A good teacher is a good teacher for all students. We emphasize becoming a teacher for your students and teaching for learning."
Upon their graduation from Earlham in May, Jamie-Rose Rothenberg, Behar Xharra and Bethany Rochelle Leeman, launched peace projects this summer in various parts of the world using $10,000 in grant funds, their time, energy and the help of volunteers and workers. All three graduates have detailed their experiences in a report, including the roadblocks they faced and the successes they enjoyed.
Psychology professors at Earlham, concerned over the American Psychological Association’s recent resolution which allows psychologists to participate in military interrogations, have passed a resolution of their own. The Earlham professors are calling the APA's stance "ethically compromised." Their objections grow out of Earlham's Quaker traditions of seeking "peaceful management and resolution of conflicts, affirming the equality of all persons, and maintaining high moral standards of personal conduct.”
Whether it's field hockey bandanas, football helmet stickers, cross country wristbands, soccer warm-ups or volleyball uniforms, Earlham's sports teams are recognizing National Breast Cancer Awareness Month by wearing some pink at home events this week.
Community involvement is a central part of the Earlham experience for many students and their time here often leads to a life dedicated to service. For Katie Strohm '08, her call to serve has been formed by Friends and her work with Richmond's Amigos program. Providing service, especially to the Latino community, is a passion for this vivacious senior.
Earlham College is part of a national effort to supply prospective students and their families with information about colleges and universities free of rankings. Earlham has been involved in the development of the U-CAN Web site since the first calls for comparable and accurate data several years ago. Earlham President Doug Bennett says that the institution is "committed to be a college showing leadership in matters of accountability, transparency and public disclosure."
Associate Professor of Chemistry Mark Stocksdale is Earlham’s first faculty member to receive a grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). The grant totaling $99,998 and entitled Uptake Specificity of Synthetic Phytosiderophore Analogs by Graminaceous Plants, will be used to study root systems in grasses. Stocksdale believes this research may lead to reduced use of agrochemicals in grasses, “our most economically important plant species.” The two-year long grant is hoped to have a significant impact on the enormous agrochemical market and make “significant use of undergraduate student researchers.”
The Friends World Committee for Consultation (FWCC) recently celebrated its 70th anniversary with a gathering at Haverford and Swarthmore colleges. Declared keynote speaker Tom Hamm, "I would say the majority of people there had some sort of Earlham connection." Hamm, Earlham professor of history and archivist and curator of the Friends Collection, counted at least eight speakers at the celebration with Earlham ties, and many more in attendance were graduates or parents of graduates.
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.
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.
Anna Crumley-Effinger '07 is one of a dozen Hoosiers to be named "Tomorrow's Leaders" by Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels. The award recognizes achievements in entrepreneurial, community, education and cultural arenas by adults under 30 years old. MORE: Read our recent Alumni Spotlight article on Anna and EC roommate Yvette Issar '07.
The Earlham Quakers kicked off their 2007-2008 season with a new kicker -- junior Hillary Carter, the College's first female football player on the sidelines. Carter, who did not play in the home opener, may be the only female currently playing college football in the U.S.