News Releases (page 58)


October 3, 2008

Trust and Christian Contemplative Practice

Michael Spezio, Scripps College professor of psychology, will discuss his research in social neuroscience on trust and the Christian contemplative process at the Tuesday Noon Academy on October 14.

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October 2, 2008

Tuesday Noon Academy Series: Socially Conscious Criminals

Kimberly Drake, director of the Scripps College Writing Program and visiting associate professor, will speak on “Socially Conscious Criminals: Violence, Protest, and the Representation of Race and Class Inequality,” October 7 in Scripps College’s Hampton Room of the Malott Commons.

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September 24, 2008

Dean of Faculty Honored with Woman of Power Award

Scripps College Dean of Faculty Cecilia Conrad was honored with a Women of Power Award at the 2008 annual conference of the National Urban League, in recognition of her outstanding contribution to economics.

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Gesamtkunstwerk and Modernism

Juliet Koss, associate professor of art history at Scripps College, has published an excerpt of her forthcoming book, “Modernism After Wagner,” in one of Germany’s leading daily newspapers.

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September 18, 2008

Student Ceramic Sculpture Exhibition

An exhibit of student ceramic art from The Claremont Colleges is being shown through September 30 at the Art Office Gallery, located in Lang 112 on the Scripps campus.

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Seeing a Color Blind Future

Patricia J. Williams, professor of law, columnist, and author, will lecture on issues of racism at Scripps College as part of the Alexa Fullerton Hampton Speaker Series.

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September 17, 2008

Sleepstarved at the Tuesday Noon Academy

The Malott Commons Tuesday Noon Academy presents “Sleepstarved”, Professor of English Gayle Greene’s first-person account of living with insomnia, on September 23.

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Rare Collection of Photographic Books and Journals Donated to Scripps College

A remarkable group of photographic books and journals, assembled by the late Marjorie and Leonard Vernon, leading Los Angeles photography collectors, has been donated to Scripps College.

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“Delta dandi”: Talking About Collective Grief and Trauma

Award-winning author Sharon Bridgforth will present from her new work, “delta dandi,” September 18, at noon in the Hampton Room of the Malott Commons at Scripps College. The lecture is free and open to the public.

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Macko’s “Bee Stories” at Claremont Museum of Art

Nancy Macko, professor of art and chair of gender and women’s studies at Scripps College, has her video, “Bee Stories,” 2006, included in the upcoming exhibition, “Multiverse,” at the Claremont Museum of Art, opening September 20.

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