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South Korea, India, and Snakes in Jamaica -- Three New Fulbrights Take Their Knox Education AbroadImagine yourself in Korea or India teaching English -- or traveling to Jamaica to study the dangerous and endangered yellow boa constrictor. That’s what three recent Knox grads will be doing with their newly awarded Fulbright Fellowships for international research and teaching. |
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Eco-entrepreneur Rocks Knox at Commencement 2011“You guys will rock!” With that line, eco-entrepreneur Majora Carter added her voice to a historied list of Knox commencement speakers that has included Stephen Colbert, President Barack Obama and former President Bill Clinton. This was also the last graduation ceremony for popular president Roger Taylor, who’s passing the reigns to Knox’s 19th and first woman president, Teresa Amott on July 1st. Check out more of Knox Commencement 2011 in photos and video. |
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Japan, China, and the Cincinnati Bengals -- it’s Strictly Business for this Knox ‘11 GradWhat business does a Knox student have in urban Japan, rural China, and in Cincinnati with the NFL Bengals franchise? Turns out it’s the business of communications and marketing for scholar-athlete Lucas Motta, Knox ’11 (integrated international studies major, Prairie Fire football team starter). While at Knox, Lucas traveled to Japan to study international corporate marketing initiatives and then to China where he learned how rural towns survive. His hands-on work at Knox with professors Mat Matsuda (Japanese language) and John Spittell (business and management) most recently led him to Cincinnati where he was chosen for a marketing communications internship with the Bengals. Chart your own course with study abroad and other off-campus programs. Learn how Lucas used Knox real-world experience to prepare for his future. |
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Most Colleges are Lucky to Have One Kemper ScholarKnox is two for two. For the second year in a row, the national Kemper Scholars Program has awarded the prestigious scholarship, worth up to $10,000, to two Knox first-year students, Alyssa Gill and Max Potthoff. “I'm incredibly excited to be able to be exposed to both non-profit and for-profit management because both are fields of interest to me,” says Max about the Kemper program, that prepares liberal arts students for careers in administration or business through high-level internships and training. Do you see yourself as a leader in the non-profit or for-profit world? Find out what the newest Knox Kempers are doing. |
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A little S.P.I.C.E. goes a long way when Knox students put on an international fashion show and fundraiser at the local Boys & Girls Club, featuring hot dancers and haute couture from Chicago. "The boys and the girls who participated were so happy, they felt so good,” says S.P.I.C.E. co-founder Alyssa Gill, Knox ’14. “That's the most important thing to me, because the fashion show is for them.” 
Knox professor and former Ray Charles Orchestra member David Hoffman has won Best New Age Album at the 2010 Independent Music Awards. "The tree frogs were singing one night, and I sat outside with a digital recorder," says the popular professor about the unique album’s opening track, “The Singing Frogs of Guadeloupe.” Hoffman has also directed the Knox Jazz Ensemble.
Are You Knox?Sophia Gimenez, New York Times Student Blogger, says Yes, I Am Knox! Mark Your Calendar for Fall Orientation
Arrival Dates for Special Orientations
More on Preparing for Your Arrival In the coming weeks, you will receive important information to orient you—and to ease your transition—to your new campus community. Please watch for these communications and review them carefully. Detailed information preparing for your arrival can be found on the Knox Web site at www.knox.edu/newstudent. |
"I feel like over the last four years at Knox, I've probably grown more as a person than I have, ever."
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“After spending just one day in the Knox community, I had already begun to examine and test my own views and the views of the surrounding world. It was this engaging,scholarly rigor,set in a responsive environment, that drew my interest back again and again,” writes incoming Knox student Sophia Gimenez, in a yearlong blog for The New York Times, about her college search process. In her final blog entry Sophia, who visited Knox this spring during an open house, writes, “It seems, at least now, that I’ve known all along that Knox would be my college choice. Making the decision and sending the first enrollment check is both a relief and a celebration.” Important Dates
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