Award-winner actress, producer, and philanthropist Eva Longoria will give the 2017 Commencement Address. Longoria is founder of a nonprofit to enrich the lives of individuals with intellectual special needs and a foundation to build better futures for Latinas.

Longoria Commencement Speaker

Whitcomb Art Center Wins Major Construction Award

Knox College's Whitcomb Art Center wins a prestigious national award for construction company P.J. Hoerr, Inc., for its innovative design and materials.

A Continental Chord: Knox College Choir Performs in France

The Knox College Choir spends spring break abroad, traveling and performing six concerts in Southern France.

Medical Immersion Trip: Pre-Med Students Learn from Alumni

A group of pre-med students traveled to Chicago over spring break to shadow Knox alumni with careers in medicine.

3D Printing, Laser Cutting, and More: Knox Engineers Club

Knox Engineers is a new club created by students to apply what they learn in the classroom.

Knox Students Navigate Research at Sea

Two Knox students take classes and conduct research while living aboard a 136-foot schooner for 12 weeks.

Annual Burn Restores Prairie

Knox College students and faculty conduct the annual Prairie Burn, part of ongoing prairie restoration at the Green Oaks Biological Field Station.

A haiku by Ben Moeller-Gaa '98 is a finalist for the Touchstone Individual Poems Award.

Anna Leahy '88 and Doug Dechow '91 have a new book, Generation Space: A Love Story. Learn more about the book and how the couple met at Knox.

Ripon College will celebrate "Wisconsin Food and Entrepreneurship" at Commencement by presenting an honorary degree to Stefano Viglietti '91, chef and owner of four restaurants in Sheboygan, Wisconsin.

Amber Bradshaw '02, managing artistic director of Working Title Playwrights, talks about developing the next generation of Atlanta playwrights in an interview with NPR station WABE.

Steve Cohn, professor of economics, has a chapter entitled "Western Neoclassical vs Marxist Economics in the PRC after Mao: another kind of revolution?" in a new book entitled The Diffusion of Western Economic Ideas in East Asia published by Routledge.

Chemistry faculty Mary Crawford '89 and Helen Hoyt '01 attended the American Chemical Society national meeting in San Francisco. Crawford serves as Chair of the Professional Relations Subcommittee: Gay and Transgender Chemists and Allies Subdivision, which hosted its first ever research symposium for LGBTQ graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. Hoyt '01 gave a presentation as part of a two-day session for Undergraduate Research at the Frontiers of Inorganic Chemistry on the "synthesis, electronic structure, & reactivity of iron complexes bearing donor-modified BIAN ligands."

Cate Denial, Bright Professor of American History, co-led a professional development project for Iowa teachers at the Meskwaki settlement in central Iowa where K-12 teachers learned about Iowa's Native history, and how to integrate that history into the curriculum.

Todd Heidt, associate professor of modern languages-German, gave a presentation at the Austrian Studies Association Conference in Chicago. His paper, "The Lives and Lies of Mario von Bucovich," was part of an interdisciplinary panel on visual artists.

An interview of Natania Rosenfeld, professor of English, by fellow poet Ruth Danon appears in Isthmus Online.

Dancer and choreographer Jeremy Lindberg focused on ballet and Spanish dance in a week-long residency at Knox. He also choreographed a contemporary ballet piece for the Knox College Spring Dances Concert, to be performed in May.

Dance Residency

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