College & Seminary News

Rhodes College

Cultural critic and scholar Dr. Michael Eric Dyson will lecture in the McCallum Ballroom of the Bryan Campus Life Center on April 24 at 7:00pm. This event is sponsored by the African American Studies Program and is free and open to the public.

Commencement is May 13th.

Maryville College

Dr. W. Ben Cash, associate professor of biology and chair of Maryville College’s division of natural sciences was recently awarded a grant from Earthwatch Institute to study the tundra wetlands of the Arctic Circle. The grant, administered through Earthwatch’s Student Challenge Awards Program, will enable eight high school students to travel to CNSC and participate in research led by Cash June 15-28. For more information about this project go to the Maryville College website at www.maryvillecollege.edu.

Commencement is May 21st.

Centre College

A collection of books written by Isaac Newton is on display at the Grace Doherty Library. From the collection of Dr. and Mrs. Ted Steinbock of Louisville, the books are on display through the end of the semester. The earliest volume was published in 1566 and informed the scientific revolution in Europe. For more information go to the Centre website at www.centre.edu. Commencement is May 21st

Stillman College

Nechelle Robinson is the new Assistant Vice President for Marketing and Public Relations at Stillman. Ms. Robinson has a BS and MS degrees in communications and public relations from Jackson State University and joins Stillman after serving on the staff of JSU. Commencement is May 13th.

Louisville Seminary

The seminary has established a lectureship in honor of the first African American woman ordained to the ministry of Word and Sacrament in the Presbyterian Church. On March 26, the Rev. Dr. Katie Geneva Cannon inaugurated the new lectureship at a weekend celebrating the ordination of women in the Presbyterian Church (USA). The Katie Geneva Cannon Lectureship will become an annual program of the Seminary’s Women’s Center that will seek to invite a woman scholar who belongs to a racial ethnic minority in the United States and who raises a critical voice against the dominant oppressive structures and ideologies of the era.

Commencement is May 21st.

Columbia Theological Seminary

“Always Being Reformed: Faith for a Fragmented World” is the title of the seminary’s annual colloquium. Held April 17-19, the event will be based upon the book of the same name written by Shirley C. Guthrie, prominent theologian and retired Columbia professor who died in 2004. For more information go to the seminary website: www.ctsnet.edu.

Commencement is May 20th.