Linfield College students trade spring break vacation for service
This week Linfield College students, faculty and staff are trading their spring break vacation for a life-changing week of service and learning in three communities across the nation.
March 29, 2012
March 27, 2012
Nursing students and faculty help senior citizen realize dream, become nurse for a day
Sylvia Griffith has always wanted to become a nurse, but missed out on her dream until this week, when she became nurse for a day at the Linfield-Good Samaritan School of Nursing.
March 23, 2012
Linfield Bike Co-Op pedals for a sustainable campus culture
Hundreds of students, professors and staff ride bikes, many of them thanks to Linfield’s student-run Bike Co-Op, which provides free loaner bikes and bike maintenance.
Mother, daughters team up for faculty cello recital commemorating Titanic
Linfield College music faculty member Sherill Roberts will present a cello recital Sunday, April 15, at 7:30 p.m. in the Delkin Recital Hall in the Vivian A. Bull Music Center at Linfield College.
Linfield student reaches out to deaf community in the Bahamas
The sight of communicative hands in motion filled Linfield College senior Erika Helm-Buckman with comfort as she visited The Center for the Deaf during her 2012 January Term class in the Bahamas.
March 22, 2012
Linfield alumna to give presentation on benefits of music therapy
A Linfield College alumna, Heidi (Vanden Bos) Edmonds, will return to her alma mater to present “What is Music Therapy?” Wednesday, April 4, at 3:30 p.m. in Delkin Hall in the Vivian A. Bull Music Center at Linfield.
March 21, 2012
Visiting performance troupe to address discrimination
Members of interACT, a California State University performance troupe, will present “Say What You Really Want To Say!” on Thursday, April 5, at 6:30 p.m. in the Pioneer Reading Room at Linfield College.
Linfield theatre presents ‘Dead Man’s Cell Phone’
Linfield College theatre students will take audience members on a rollercoaster ride of unforeseen encounters with death, relationships and technology in the upcoming production, “Dead Man’s Cell Phone.”
March 20, 2012
Linfield to host 8th annual anthropology lecture
David Price, professor of anthropology and sociology at Saint Martin’s University, will present “Weaponizing Anthropology: Social Science in Service of the Militarized State” on Tuesday, April 24, at 7 p.m. in 201 Riley Hall at Linfield College.
Wolman to examine Egypt’s youth movement
David Wolman, author, award-winning journalist and a contributing editor for Wired magazine, will speak on “Digital Dissidents: Inside Egypt’s Youth Movement, 2008-2012” Tuesday, April 17, at 7 p.m. in Richard and Lucille Ice Auditorium at Linfield College.
Linfield College recognized as national leader in community outreach
Linfield College was named to the 2012 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll in recognition of outstanding leadership in civic engagement and service learning during the 2010-2011 school year.
Seniors to be honored at spring band concert
The Linfield College Concert Band will perform its annual spring concert “Of Heart and Home” on Tuesday, April 24, at 7:30 p.m. in the Richard and Lucille Ice Auditorium in Melrose Hall at Linfield.
March 19, 2012
Linfield Reports, 3/19/12
March 15, 2012
Business students rally for Latino empowerment
Business Professor Michelle Nelson and students Danny Brown ’12, Kathie Byers ’14, Aziza Jappie ’14, Heather McClellan ’12, Robby Richardson ’13 and Greg Schockelt ’12 developed marketing materials for an initiative that connects Latino farmers with consumers.
March 14, 2012
History of humanitarianism focus of upcoming lecture
Michael Barnett, university professor of international affairs and political science at The George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs, will speak about his most recent book, “Empire of Humanity: A History of Humanitarianism,” on Monday, April 16, at 7 p.m. in the Richard and Lucille Ice Auditorium in Melrose Hall at Linfield College.
Nuclear disarmament topic of Cottrell faculty lecture
Patrick Cottrell, assistant professor of political science, will present “Constructing the Peace: Nuclear Disarmament, Climate Change and the Politics of Zero” on Wednesday, April 11, at 7 p.m. in Riley 201 at Linfield College.
Concert choir tour to conclude with Linfield performance
Members of the Linfield College Concert Choir will present a performance on Wednesday, April 4, at 7:30 p.m. in the Richard and Lucille Ice Auditorium in Melrose Hall at Linfield.
Portland poet to read at Linfield
Poet Brittney Corrigan will present a reading from her book Navigation on Wednesday, April 18, at 7:30 p.m. in the Austin Reading Room of the Jereld R. Nicholson Library at Linfield College.
March 13, 2012
Yamashita to address resistance in World War II Japan
Samuel Yamashita, the Henry E. Sheffield Professor of History at Pomona College, will present “Wartime Japan and its Discontents” Thursday, April 5, at 7:30 p.m. in the Richard and Lucille Ice Auditorium in Melrose Hall at Linfield College.
March 12, 2012
Political science student featured in Oregonian guest column
Student Aaron Good ’13 spoke out on church-state separation in an eloquent opinion column in The Oregonian.
March 11, 2012
Linfield Reports, 3/12/12
March 9, 2012
Third Wildcat captures a national championship in women’s track and field
Nursing student Catherine Street ’12 became the third Linfield woman to capture a national championship in track and field, winning the pole vault at this week’s NCAA Division III Indoor Track & Field Championships.
March 6, 2012
Mass communication professor creates her own news for the news industry
Professor Susan Currie Sivek serves as the magazine industry correspondent for PBS MediaShift, where she informs a national audience about our transition to the digital age.
March 5, 2012
Linfield fraternity helps protect local watershed
Kappa Sigma Fraternity is collaborating with McMinnville Wastewater Services Division to help protect local streams and rivers.
March 2, 2012
Recent graduate balances poetry with basketball
Stephen Dennis ’11 graduated in creative writing. Now he has headed to Germany to play pro-basketball, hoping to combine both his passions.