Feature Stories (page 29)
A Woman With No Borders: Susannah Kricker ‘09
When Susannah Kricker ’09 first put on her white doctor’s coat in the fall of 2014, it was the culmination of an extraordinary personal journey started years earlier at Scripps College. Now a first year medical student at the University of Vermont, Kricker was drawn to the humanities and social sciences by a desire “to find a connection to lived experiences.”
Read MoreSpotlight on Alumnae: Madison Pathe ’13
It takes confidence to work in the entertainment industry. But working on one of the most popular reality shows on television? That takes something extra.
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Music in the Making
Ellen Pelos ’16 investigates the world of 19th-century women composers – and culminates the research with a campus recital.
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Claremont Colleges TV: Ready for Primetime Players
Claremont Colleges TV offers Scripps College students the chance to experiment with and create whatever kind of media they like, whether it’s news, editorials, or a trip on the Spacecouch.
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Career Planning and Resources
From first to final day at Scripps College, the Career Planning & Resource (CP&R) Center helps students succeed with one of their most important transitions – the one from undergraduate life to life after Scripps.
Read MoreA Scripps Student at NASA
As part of NASA’s earth sciences research intern program Taia Wu ‘15 and other interns are up at five a.m. in the Palmdale, California, flight research center, where they board a hollowed-out Boeing plane filled with scientific instruments and scattered seating, and take off.
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Spotlight on Alumnae: Edie Adams ’14
Although Edie Adams ’14 has always had a passion for music, she assumed she’d be doing something related to her major in Hispanic studies after graduation from Scripps College. Then Terrorbird Media came calling.
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Research and Internships: How One Patient Changed My Career Path
It happened so quickly, but I will never forget it. In that moment with the patient holding the intensivist’s hand, showing honest gratitude, and expressing so many words despite the communication barriers, I wanted to be the doctor that helped her.
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Accelerated Integrated Science Sequence
AISS is a cutting-edge, yearlong course designed to combine and integrate all of the principles students would otherwise learn in separate, semester-long introductory courses to biology, chemistry, and physics.
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Research and Internships: Mara Falahee Gains a New Home and New Skills
I thought it would be easier than it was, but with coworkers and friends I felt at home in Seattle. I became immersed in a new liberal, forward thinking community while living in the heart of the city.
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