From: Hindustan Times (New Delhi, India)
In Chandigarh [India] to play Banta in the upcoming Hindi film, Santa Banta, Vir [Das] gets talking about taking respite in comedy and turning jokes with double meaning into a heavy dose of humour.
Born in Dehradun and raised in Africa, Vir’s father is a farmer, mother a wildlife enthusiast and sister was a documentary maker. Finding Nigera unsafe to live in, Vir went to the US, where he started pursuing a degree in economics from Knox College, Illinois. “One day, I took an acting class and my mentor told me to do theatre instead of economics. For four years continuously, I did theatre, mostly dark roles. Since these were turning me insane, I started doing stand-up comedy as almost a rebellion,” he says… Read more…
From: The Register Mail (Galesburg, IL)
1969 Galesburg High School graduate Ken Johnson has been named to lead communications and marketing for the Solar Energy Industries Association… “This is an exciting opportunity to be part of something which is so critically important to America’s future,” said Johnson, a 1973 Knox College graduate… A Capitol Hill veteran, Johnson previously headed up communications for the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) and two major committees in the U.S. House of Representatives…
Ken remains a huge fan of Galesburg, and shares some of his thoughts and memories via email [to the Register-Mail]: “No matter where my career has taken me, Galesburg has always been home. I received a terrific education in the Galesburg public school system and later at Knox College…” Read more…
From: WGIL (Galesburg, IL)
At Knox College Monday night, John Agnew , a leading scholar on nationalism and immigration, spoke on global immigration trends. A distinguished professor of geography at UCLA, he spoke about building a framework to think about the current debate on immigration policy, and that three percent of the global population is living outside their country of birth… Read more…
From: PEN International (New York City)
PEN, the worldwide association of writers that works for freedom of expression, honors two Knox College theatre faculty. Neil Blackadder, professor of theatre, served on a panel, “Translation for the Theater,” at the hotINK Festival of International Plays, April 21 in New York City. One of the festival plays is “The Admission,” by Motti Lerner, the 2013 Glossberg Visiting Israeli Scholar at Knox College. The festival is a collaboration between the PEN American Center and the Lark Play Development Center, a theater in New York that focuses on new works. Read more…
From: The Register Mail (Galesburg, IL)
More than 15 vendors took part in Friday’s first West Central Illinois Sustainability Expo… at the Sustainable Business Center… Companies and organizations represented included Cross-Fire Soil Remediation, Blackburn Sampling, Illinois Institute for Rural Affairs, Ameren Illinois, Carl Sandburg College, U of I Extension, Sitka Salmon Shares, KnoxCorps, Growing Together, Pennycress Energy, Intellihot and others. Genevieve Crow of Sitka Salmon Shares said the company that works with independent fishermen in Sitka, Alaska, to bring fresh salmon and other fish to the Midwest is gearing up for the season… The company was formed at Knox College by Nic Mink and a couple of his students… Read more…
