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Lab Rats Three Hendrix College science students presented research at the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) meeting in West Palm Beach, Florida: biochemistry and molecular biology major Kristen O’Connell ’15, biology major and chemistry minor Wes Mills ’15 and biology major and chemistry minor Kate Emery ’16. The meeting had nearly 2,000 people in attendance, 611 posters, 767 talks and 12 symposia, which had close to 120 talks. The students have worked in the lab of Hendrix biology professor Dr. Jenn Dearolf (O’Connell since she was a freshman; Mills and Emery since summer 2014).
Fine Dining Hendrix College was named one of America’s top 25 schools for Best College Food by Cappex.com. Compiling the results of over 1.4 million student reviews on Cappex.com, the 2015 Cappies Award winners were determined across six categories. Hendrix placed 3rd in Best College Food.
Talkin’ TED TEDxHendrixCollege hosted its fifth annual independently organized TED-licensed conference on campus this spring. This year’s theme was “Origins” and explored how stories of origins shape our lives, communities and collective history. The program featured nine speakers, including Hendrix College President Bill Tsutsui; Chirag Lala ’17, winner of the 2nd Annual Student Speaker Competition; Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Doug Blackmon ’86; musician Dana Falconberry ’02; and former Heifer International President and CEO and 2010 World Food Prize Laureate Jo Luck ’63.
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Hendrix College ranked #2 in a Money magazine list of 20 Best Private Colleges for Merit Aid. The magazine analyzed data on the percentage of students receiving merit aid (36 percent at Hendrix) and the average percentage of tuition each merit grant made up (63 percent at Hendrix) to find the 20 most generous colleges. Hendrix was ranked 63rd on Kiplinger’s “Best Values in Colleges” list of private liberal arts colleges based on academic quality. Schools are then ranked based on cost and financial aid data. Hendrix also ranked 128th on the combined list of 300 best values, which Kiplinger’s compiled to show how the top liberal arts colleges, private universities and public colleges compare against each other.
TEDxHendrixCollege also hosted TEDrixWomen 2014 this fall. The event’s theme was “People, Places, and Identity” and featured live talks given by biology professor Dr. Maureen McClung ’01 and psychology professor Dr. Leslie Templeton ’91.
Mock Stars
Hendrix Mock Trial students competed successfully at this year’s Mid-Missouri Mock Trial Invitational Tournament in Columbia, Missouri.
Brittany Webb ’15 received Best Witness and a perfect score at the Mid-Missouri Mock Trial Invitational Tournament in Columbia, Missouri, while Nigel Halliday ’16 received the award for Best Attorney. Fifteen mock trial students also competed at the American Mock Trial Association Regional Tournament in Dallas, Texas, where Halliday won a Top Attorney award and Webb won a Top Witness award. Shawn Johnson ’98 of the Arkansas Attorney General’s Office was the team’s attorney coach.
Race is on Six Hendrix College students attended the national Facing Race 2014 conference in Dallas, Texas: Blair Causey ’16, Mustafa Filat ’17, Charley Ford ’15, Mitchel Griffin ’15, Remington Harris ’18 and Jill Nguyen ’15. The conference was presented by Race Forward: The Center for Racial Justice Innovation and is the largest multiracial, inter-generational gathering for organizers, educators, creatives and other leaders. In addition to highlighting a Southern perspective, the conference offered the local community unprecedented access to information and
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