Kubrick Documentary Brings Albion Professor to the Red Carpet
Thursday, February 02, 2012
Albion College history professor Geoff Cocks maintains Stanley Kubrick was a master at creating indelible images on film that force the viewer to replay each scene, much like how a coach rewinds and replays a game or practice for bits of information. Instead of trying to interpret why a play worked or failed in competition, however, Cocks intensely analyzes the visual elements in Kubrick’s films to decode a deeper message.
In Rodney Ascher’s Room 237, which made its debut Jan. 23 at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, Cocks provides insight into how Kubrick's use of objects, numbers, colors, and music in the 1980 classic The Shining relate to the Holocaust.
Study: Liberal Arts College Graduates Are Better Prepared for Work, Life
Wednesday, February 01, 2012
A recent Annapolis Group/Hardwick Day study provides evidence of the direct impact and lasting value of a liberal arts education.
Compared to graduates of public and private universities, graduates of liberal arts colleges like Albion say in greater percentages that their experience sufficiently prepared them to land their first job, gain admission into graduate school, or generally meet life's challenges.
French, Religious Studies Professors Untangle Mystic Jeanne Guyon's Intriguing Story
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Jeanne Guyon—wealthy widow in the court of Louis XIV, imprisoned for heresy and her friendship with a powerful cleric—is not the heroine of a historical novel, but the real-life subject of years of scholarship done by French professor Dianne Guenin-Lelle and religious studies professor Ronney Mourad. Their work has resulted in two new books, Jeanne Guyon: Selected Writings, released by Paulist Press, and The Prison Narratives of Jeanne Guyon, published by Oxford University Press.
Cameroon Trip Challenges First-Year Students' Thoughts About Africa
Friday, January 27, 2012
Kayla Gustitus and Alyssa Heilman were among a small group of first-year students from Albion College who traveled to Cameroon for two weeks in January. Led by Emmanuel Yewah, professor of French and the Howard L. McGregor Endowed Professor of Humanities at Albion, the trip challenged the students' original conceptions about Africa.
Wieth's Problem-Solving Research Lands Media Coverage
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Research by Mareike Wieth, assistant professor of psychological science at Albion College, has landed coverage in several media outlets including Men’s Health magazine and the British Broadcasting Company World Service. Wieth’s recent study asked 428 students to deem themselves night owls or morning larks then quizzed them on six problem-solving tasks at different times of the day. Early birds quizzed in the p.m. and night owls quizzed in the morning performed the best on insight-based questions that required some original thought.
