News Releases (page 104)
Lori Bettison-Varga Elected Scripps College President
Scripps College Board of Trustees has unanimously elected Dr. Lori Bettison-Varga president of Scripps College, effective July 1, 2009.
Read MoreIt’s official: Fritz Weis becomes 7th president of Scripps, for 2007-09
One simple word – its addition or removal – makes a difference. Just after electing Lori Bettison-Varga as Scripps’ next president, the Board of Trustees voted to remove “interim” from Fritz Weis’s title and make him the official 7th president of Scripps College.
Read MoreWomen’s Fiber Arts in the South Pacific
Heather Waldroup, visual materials curator and CLIR postdoctural fellow, Libraries of The Claremont Colleges, will discuss researching women’s textile production in the South Pacific, Tuesday, March 31, as part of the Malott Commons Tuesday Noon Academy.
Read MoreWriter Gustavo Arellano to Speak on “Humor in a Caliente Vein”
Gustavo Arellano, writer and columnist on Latino culture, will speak on “Humor in a Caliente Vein: Satire and its Relationship to Saving the Mexican Race,” Thursday, March 26, at noon, in the Hampton Room, Malott Commons.
Read MoreAuthor Griest Gives Tips for Wandering Women and a Reading of “Mexican Enough: My Life Between the Borderlines”
Author Stephanie Elizondo Griest will present two events at Scripps College as part of the Alexa Fullerton Hampton Speaker Series: Voice and Vision. Both events are free and open to the public.
Read MoreMultiple Identities, Dynamic Subjectivities
Cecilia A. Conrad, Scripps College’s dean of faculty and professor of economics at Pomona College, is the final speaker in the Claremont College’s Intercollegiate Department of Black Studies’ 2008-09 speaker series, “Multiple Identities, Dynamic Subjectivities.”
Read MoreScripps Senior Alissa Petrites Wins Davis Peace Scholarship
Alissa Petrites ’09, a humanities major from Oakland, Calif., is the recipient of a 2009 Davis Projects for Peace Scholarship, in the amount of $10,000, to facilitate her “Promoting Breast Milk Donation” project in South Africa.
Read MoreScripps Student Named 2009 Watson Fellow
Scripps College senior Kyle Delbyck was awarded a prestigious 2009-2010 Watson Foundation Fellowship to spend a year exploring relationships between dramatic presentations and historical amnesia in Lithuania, Taiwan, Cambodia and Ghana.
Read MoreU.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords ‘93 to Give Scripps College Commencement Address
U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords ’93 will give the commencement address at Scripps College on Sunday, May 17, 2009. Giffords, a 1993 graduate of Scripps, represents the Eighth District of Arizona, a diverse area that covers 9,000 square miles including a 114 mile border with Mexico.
Read MoreScripps Bolsters Japanese Art and Literature Collection
Scripps College has received 48 recently published books on Japanese arts and literature from The Nippon Foundation, to be housed in Denison Library.
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