Feature Stories (page 67)
Women of the World
Spring semester, Scripps College welcomed a new student organization, Women of the World (WOW). The idea for WOW was simple: Scripps women helping women locally and globally.
Read More2005 Fall Athletic Review
The Claremont-Mudd-Scripps (CMS) Athletic Director, Michael Sutton, has reason to be proud of the long history and many accomplishments of the CMS athletic teams. And this fall season proved that the athletes do not miss the opportunity to score.
Read MoreProtecting Sea Turtle Habitat in Costa Rica
Mariam Daudi ’03 has been monitoring nesting leatherback sea turtles in Costa Rica with a team of research scientists and volunteers since January. The Scripps alumna was awarded an Earthwatch grant to help save the sea turtles from extinction at one of the most important remaining nesting beaches. Grants from the institute support doctoral and post-doctoral researchers, or researchers with equivalent scholarship or life experience.
Read MoreCareer Advancement
This summer, Smith College announced the appointment of Patricia “Trish” Jackson ’82 as vice president for advancement.
Read MoreBarbequed Sagehen
The Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Athenas volleyball team served up a sumptuous feast of fried Pomona-Pitzer Sagehen Friday night, scorching their cross-campus rivals in a 3-0 victory.
Read MoreScripps Lends Helping Hands to Habitat for Humanity
Each month staff members of Scripps College Residential Life participate in a development workshops or projects. In October, the group helped the Claremont Habitat for Humanity project, building six single-family homes in six weeks.
Read MoreMolly Ivins Honored
Molly Ivins ’66, known for her acerbic and refreshingly honest political columns, received the International Women’s Media Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award this October.
Read MoreCollege Kick
Nicole Smith is a busy Scripps junior; she not only manages a full-time class load, a part-time job at Pomona College’s Coop Fountain, and rehearsal and performance obligations as a member of both the Claremont Concert Choir and Chamber Choir, she is also a certified kickboxing instructor at The Claremont Colleges.
Read MoreRebuilding Lives, One Tree at a Time
Karen Rollet-Crocker ’66 has been a professor of landscape architecture at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville for more than 20 years. The Fayetteville Natural Heritage Association was founded in part by Rollet-Crocker, and she has been active in developing the Peel Mansion Museum and Garden and the Compton Gardens. Rollet-Crocker has been a notable contributor to her community, and early this year, she was given the opportunity to reach out beyond her community.
Read MoreMedicinal Art
Beverly Shieh ’09 donated two original works of art to the American Medical Association Foundation. Her acrylic paintings, commissioned by Guam’s American Medical Association Delegation, were auctioned off at the foundation’s annual silent auction this past June.
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