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YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio – August 5, 2011 – Antioch College alumna Judith G. Voet ’63 will be one of 12 recipients of the next American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology annual award, the society announced.

Voet, the J.H. Hammons Professor Emerita of Chemistry at Swarthmore College, will share the ASBMB Award for Exemplary Contributions to Education with her husband, Donald Voet, an associate professor of chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania. They will give an award talk at the society's annual meeting April 21-25 in San Diego.

The Voets have made significant contributions to the teaching of biochemistry and molecular biology through their writing. Together, they have authored the comprehensive textbook Biochemistry, a 1,782-page one-stop source of current knowledge about biochemistry and molecular biology; co-authored Fundamentals of Biochemistry, a textbook that has been translated into nine languages; and co-edited the educational journal Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education.

Judith Voet has been an active supporter of the Antioch College revival. She served on the Presidential Search Committee that selected Mark Roosevelt as Antioch College’s newest president; is a member of the Science Advisory Committee that helped to draft the science curriculum; and participated in the chemistry faculty search.

After earning a B.S. at Antioch College, Voet earned a Ph.D. at Brandeis University. She participated in postdoctoral research at the University of Pennsylvania, Haverford College, and the Fox Chase Cancer Center before securing her faculty position at Swarthmore in 1979.

Her service to the biochemistry education community includes membership in the ASBMB Education and Professional Development Committee (1995-2005) and service as an elected council member in the American Chemical Society's Biochemistry Division (1993-2004).

Letters in support of the joint nomination for the ASBMB award came from peers in biochemistry education, such as Harold B. White, a professor of biochemistry and director of the Howard Hughes Undergraduate Program at the University of Delaware, and fellow Antioch alumna Joan Steitz ’63, Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at the Yale School of Medicine.

The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology is a nonprofit scientific and educational organization with more than 12,000 members worldwide. Most members teach and conduct research at colleges and universities. Others conduct research in various government laboratories, at nonprofit research institutions and in industry. The Society's student members attend undergraduate or graduate institutions. For more information about ASBMB, visit www.asbmb.org.

About Antioch College
Antioch College is a private, independent nonprofit liberal arts college in Yellow Springs, Ohio. The College curriculum puts emphasis on rigorous liberal arts learning, work (cooperative education), and community engagement. Students will complete individualized majors based on one or more of 11 concentrations, a language minor, and six full-time work experiences off campus. The institution, originally founded in 1850, is authorized by the Ohio Board of Regents to grant Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science degrees.

MEDIA CONTACT:
Gariot P. Louima ?
Chief Communications Officer
Office: 937-319-6131
Mobile: 937-581-8201
glouima@antiochcollege.org

YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio – July 29, 2011 – The Glen Helen Ecology Institute has begun to coordinate Antioch College’s sustainability initiatives and is seeking volunteers to help in the launch of the first major sustainability project: the Antioch College Farm.

"The College Farm will not only be a food source but also an integral part of the curriculum and student experience," said Nick Boutis, director of Glen Helen and coordinator of College sustainability initiatives.

Antioch College’s new curriculum includes a series of Global Seminars that allow for interdisciplinary approaches to the examination of issues and ideas surrounding water, food, governance, health, and energy. The Farm will be an experiential classroom where students and faculty will search for the inherent interrelationships between conscious stewardship, the use of natural resources, and the resultant impact on the health and vitality of the local and global environment.

Situated on the approximately 35-acre former golf course on the southeast side of campus, the Antioch College Farm will be a working laboratory that provides the opportunity for active participation in learning, experimenting, and applying best management practices in organic and ecological agriculture methods.

The College has hired local farmer Kat Christen (photographed) to design and implement the first phase of the project. Christen and her husband, Doug, operate Smaller Footprint Farms, a small, diversified CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) farm just outside of Yellow Springs.

Christen, who has a degree in life science education with a minor in plant biology, has worked as an urban naturalist for Five Rivers MetroParks in Dayton. SHe is also the founder of City Beets, a summer program designed to create active youth leaders through the process of growing, sharing, and selling food.

Working with volunteers, Christen will clean up the old community gardens, establish new annual beds with sheet mulching, prep the new food forest area, and plant fall crops and perennials.

Volunteers interested in working on the Antioch College Farm can drop in every Tuesday from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. through August. There are some shaded work areas. Please bring your work gloves and water. All ages and experience levels welcome. Volunteers are also needed this fall to construct raised beds and to feed chickens on Saturdays and Sundays.

Questions? Weather check? Call Kat Christen at 937-477-8654 or e-mail smallerfootprint@yahoo.com for more info.

About Antioch College
Antioch College is a private, independent nonprofit liberal arts college in Yellow Springs, Ohio. The College curriculum puts equal emphasis on rigorous liberal arts learning, work (cooperative education), and community engagement. Students will complete individualized majors based on one or more of 11 concentrations, a language minor, and six full-time work experiences off campus. The institution, originally founded in 1850, is authorized by the Ohio Board of Regents to grant Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science degrees.

MEDIA CONTACT:
Gariot P. Louima ?
Chief Communications Officer
Office: 937-319-6131
Mobile: 937-581-8201
glouima@antiochcollege.org

YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio – July 12, 2011 – Based on the recommendation of a search committee, Antioch College President Mark Roosevelt has hired Anneris Coria-Navia as an assistant professor of Spanish.

Coria-Navia’s experience includes a decade of K-12 and college-level Spanish instruction, as well as two decades of music education in the U.S. and abroad. Currently, she teaches a beginning Spanish class, Spanish for Health Professionals, and a music appreciation class at Kettering College. Additionally, she teaches beginner- and intermediate-level Spanish classes at Wright State University, where she also serves as a faculty supervisor in the Teacher Education Program.

Previously, she taught a variety of Spanish courses, including Advanced Placement Spanish, at the Redlands Adventist Academy in Redlands, California, and at St. Mary’s Catholic School in Ann Arbor, Michigan. During her time at Redlands, she also developed a cross-age teaching program that prepared second- and third-year Spanish students to teach at the elementary level.

As a music educator, Coria-Navia has also taught courses in appreciation and performance at Andrews University, Lake Michigan College, the Universidad Adventista de Montemorelos, and in elementary, middle and high school settings.

Coria-Navia earned a B.M. in piano performance and music education from the Universidad Adventista del Plata in Entre Ríos, Argentina. She earned her M.M. in music education and an M.A. in education at Andrews University. She completed her doctorate in education leadership at the University of Southern California and, finally, an M.A. in Spanish from Miami University in Oxford.

Submitted in 2010, Coria-Navia’s master’s thesis reports on the analysis of audio recordings of conversations with twelve subjects from Ohio and California to determine the frequency and characteristics of code switching within a given time-frame. Her doctoral research, submitted in 2005, examined the effect of social relationships in work satisfaction among beginning elementary school teachers.

Coria-Navia is the sixth and final tenure-track professor hired at Antioch College this year. Professors of anthropology, chemistry, literature, philosophy, and 3-D art were also hired based on the recommendation of search committees, which were comprised of former faculty, emeriti faculty, and alumni and friends of the college who are subject-matter experts or serve as members of faculty at other liberal arts colleges.

Candidates for faculty positions are assessed on their subject-matter expertise; ability to teach their subjects; ability to interact with students, faculty colleagues and community members; ability to collaborate effectively; knowledge of and comfort with the three C's of classroom, co-op and community; and their interpersonal style and ability to engage in effective discussion. All finalists for faculty positions visit the campus in Yellow Springs for a day of interviews and meetings with college personnel.

About Antioch College

A private, independent nonprofit liberal arts college in Yellow Springs, Ohio, Antioch College will offer a four-year, undergraduate residential experience to a new class of students beginning in the fall of 2011. The College curriculum puts equal emphasis on rigorous liberal arts learning, work (cooperative education), and community engagement. Students will complete individualized majors based on one of 11 concentrations, a language minor, and six full-time work experiences. The institution, originally founded in 1850, is now completely independent of Antioch University, the multi-campus system it founded.

MEDIA CONTACT:
Gariot P. Louima ?
Chief Communications Officer
Office: 937-319-6131
Mobile: 937-581-8201
glouima@antiochcollege.org

YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio – June 29, 2011 – President Mark Roosevelt has named Cezar O. Mesquita, director of admissions at The College of Wooster, as Antioch’s new dean of admissions and financial aid.

Mesquita’s appointment is the result of an intense nationwide search
that began in the spring. To date, Antioch’s admission office has been
led by alumna Kristen Pett ’90, who serves as special assistant to
the president for enrollment.

At Wooster since 2009, Mesquita developed, deployed and managed an
operating budget of $1.4 million, supervised admission counselors and
administrative staff, and coordinated elements of an integrated
marketing, recruitment and enrollment plan.

Mesquita has also served as director of admission at Doane College
(2006-2009), and held several positions at the University of Denver
(2000-2006), including director of diversity enrollment, interim
director of admission, and assistant director of admission.

He was the interim executive director and an assistant director of the
Latin American Educational Foundation (1998-2000), a 60-year-old
Denver-based nonprofit that provides Hispanics in Colorado with access
to higher education.

Mesquita earned a B.A. in Spanish, with minors in French,
international affairs and Portuguese, at the University of Nebraska.
He earned an M.A. in Latin American studies at the University of
Alabama.

About Antioch College

A private, independent nonprofit liberal arts college in Yellow Springs, Ohio, Antioch College will offer a four-year, undergraduate residential experience to a new class of students beginning in the fall of 2011. The College curriculum puts equal emphasis on rigorous liberal arts learning, work (cooperative education), and community engagement. Students will complete individualized majors based on one of 11 concentrations, a language minor, and six full-time work experiences. The institution, originally founded in 1850, is now completely independent of Antioch University, the multi-campus system it founded.

MEDIA CONTACT:
Gariot P. Louima ?
Chief Communications Officer
Office: 937-319-6131
Mobile: 937-581-8201
glouima@antiochcollege.org

YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio – June 29, 2011 – President Mark Roosevelt has named Cezar O. Mesquita, director of admissions at The College of Wooster, as Antioch’s new dean of admissions and financial aid.

Mesquita’s appointment is the result of an intense nationwide search
that began in the spring. To date, Antioch’s admission office has been
led by alumna Kristen Pett ’90, who serves as special assistant to
the president for enrollment.

At Wooster since 2009, Mesquita developed, deployed and managed an
operating budget of $1.4 million, supervised admission counselors and
administrative staff, and coordinated elements of an integrated
marketing, recruitment and enrollment plan.

Mesquita has also served as director of admission at Doane College
(2006-2009), and held several positions at the University of Denver
(2000-2006), including director of diversity enrollment, interim
director of admission, and assistant director of admission.

He was the interim executive director and an assistant director of the
Latin American Educational Foundation (1998-2000), a 60-year-old
Denver-based nonprofit that provides Hispanics in Colorado with access
to higher education.

Mesquita earned a B.A. in Spanish, with minors in French,
international affairs and Portuguese, at the University of Nebraska.
He earned an M.A. in Latin American studies at the University of
Alabama.

About Antioch College

A private, independent nonprofit liberal arts college in Yellow Springs, Ohio, Antioch College will offer a four-year, undergraduate residential experience to a new class of students beginning in the fall of 2011. The College curriculum puts equal emphasis on rigorous liberal arts learning, work (cooperative education), and community engagement. Students will complete individualized majors based on one of 11 concentrations, a language minor, and six full-time work experiences. The institution, originally founded in 1850, is now completely independent of Antioch University, the multi-campus system it founded.

MEDIA CONTACT:
Gariot P. Louima ?
Chief Communications Officer
Office: 937-319-6131
Mobile: 937-581-8201
glouima@antiochcollege.org

YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio – June 29, 2011 – President Mark Roosevelt has named Cezar O. Mesquita, director of admissions at The College of Wooster, as Antioch’s new dean of admissions and financial aid.

Mesquita’s appointment is the result of an intense nationwide search
that began in the spring. To date, Antioch’s admission office has been
led by alumna Kristen Pett ’90, who serves as special assistant to
the president for enrollment.

At Wooster since 2009, Mesquita developed, deployed and managed an
operating budget of $1.4 million, supervised admission counselors and
administrative staff, and coordinated elements of an integrated
marketing, recruitment and enrollment plan.

Mesquita has also served as director of admission at Doane College
(2006-2009), and held several positions at the University of Denver
(2000-2006), including director of diversity enrollment, interim
director of admission, and assistant director of admission.

He was the interim executive director and an assistant director of the
Latin American Educational Foundation (1998-2000), a 60-year-old
Denver-based nonprofit that provides Hispanics in Colorado with access
to higher education.

Mesquita earned a B.A. in Spanish, with minors in French,
international affairs and Portuguese, at the University of Nebraska.
He earned an M.A. in Latin American studies at the University of
Alabama.

About Antioch College

A private, independent nonprofit liberal arts college in Yellow Springs, Ohio, Antioch College will offer a four-year, undergraduate residential experience to a new class of students beginning in the fall of 2011. The College curriculum puts equal emphasis on rigorous liberal arts learning, work (cooperative education), and community engagement. Students will complete individualized majors based on one of 11 concentrations, a language minor, and six full-time work experiences. The institution, originally founded in 1850, is now completely independent of Antioch University, the multi-campus system it founded.

MEDIA CONTACT:
Gariot P. Louima ?
Chief Communications Officer
Office: 937-319-6131
Mobile: 937-581-8201
glouima@antiochcollege.org