Feature Stories (page 23)
The Scripps Experience: The Outdoor Wilderness Leaders CLORG
Taking full advantage of these opportunities for outdoor adventure, the Scripps club Outdoor Wilderness Leaders (OWL) connects students who are interested in the outdoors, rents out recreational gear, and sponsors student-led camping, backpacking, and day trips to locations in Southern California and beyond.
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The Scripps Experience: CMS Athletics
Scripps is known for its rigorous academics, and its incredibly talented student-athletes are making a name for the College, too. Students involved in the Claremont-Mudd-Scripps (CMS) athletics program, a partnership between Scripps, Claremont McKenna, and Harvey Mudd Colleges, are members of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division III Conference, which includes 180,000 student-athletes at 450 institutions.
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Building on a Scripps Degree with the 3-2 Engineering Program
At Scripps, students are given the freedom and support to pursue whatever subjects interest them. With the 3-2 Engineering Program, operated through the W.M. Keck Science Department, students at Scripps and across The Claremont Colleges can earn bachelor’s degrees from two different schools, in two disparate fields.
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Laspa Action Grants: Maya Espiritu ’16
More than 40 years after the fall of Saigon, the tragic consequences of war are still all too apparent in Vietnam. Maya Espiritu ’16 used her LASPA Action Grant this past summer to document the ongoing effects of Agent Orange, as well as other chemical weapons used during the Vietnam War, on today’s children in Vietnam.
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Scripps Selects Finalists for Thomas J. Watson Fellowship
Scripps College has nominated Madeline Moulton ’16, Vivienne Muller ’16, and Haley Wilhelm ’16 as finalists to compete for prestigious Thomas J. Watson Fellowships. They, along with hundreds of graduating seniors from across the U.S., will be in the running for these fellowships, which are awarded annually to 50 students from approximately 40 colleges.
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Laspa Action Grants: Alexandra Harder ’17
When women are released from prison, they often find themselves lacking the financial resources and job skills they need to begin their new lives. Alexandra Harder ’17 used her LASPA Action Grant to help improve a program focused on building networking, communication, and entrepreneurial skills for these women and the student interns who also participated.
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The Scripps Experience: The STEM Living Learning Community
Instead of the usual promise of, “See you next week!” after their cell biology lecture, students pack up and walk back to their shared residence, a dedicated corridor in Wilbur Hall. Although the situation may seem unusual for a small residential college, it is part of the day-to-day for Scripps students who are members of the newly established science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) and pre-health Living Learning Community (LLC).
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Scripps In Residence Opens Paths to Professional Success
On Wednesday, October 28, and Thursday, October 29, the College hosted its first annual Scripps-in-Residence, which brought an accomplished and influential panel of four Scripps College alumnae and one parent to campus to share their professional advice and insights. The program began with rousing discussion on Wednesday evening, which drew a capacity crowd to Balch Auditorium.
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Laspa Action Grants: Edith Ortega ’18
The Laspa Action Grants were established to provide opportunities for students to transform knowledge, passion, and ideas into action; demonstrate creative and effective problem solving; create partnership(s) in the public or […]
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Spotlight on Faculty: Jih-Fei Cheng, Assistant Professor in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Jih-Fei Cheng joins the Scripps faculty this fall as assistant professor in feminist, gender, and sexuality studies. Cheng completed his PhD in American studies and ethnicity, with an emphasis in visual studies, at the University of Southern California. His dissertation, AIDS and Its Afterlives: Race, Gender, and the Queer Radical Imagination, examines how experimental videos produced by AIDS activists during the 1980s until the mid-90s continue to politically intervene into contemporary popular media and social movements.
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