News Releases (page 64)
Scripps College’s Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery Featured in the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin’s Features Editor Diana Sholley “explores the art of ceramics” in this story about the Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery’s 71st Ceramic Annual.
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Biology Professor Patrick Ferree Secures $830,000 NSF Grant
Assistant Professor of Biology Patrick Ferree is the recipient of an $830,000 five-year grant from the National Science Foundation Career Development Program to research genome conflict. Ferree is in the W.M. Keck Science Department of Pitzer College, Claremont McKenna College and Scripps College.
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$1 Million Grant Will Help Claremont Colleges Create a More Diverse Faculty for U.S. Higher Education
The Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program, a new $1 million grant to The Claremont Colleges, will push forward efforts by this group of small, academically-rigorous institutions to create a more diverse faculty for America’s colleges and universities.
Read MoreScripps College Students Featured in Santa Cruz Sentinel News Story About ‘Women in Physics’
The Santa Cruz Sentinel quotes Jessica Ng ’15 and Anna Henderson ’15 for a story on the 10th annual Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics.
Read MoreScripps College Professor Explores Life’s Absurdities in New York Times Commentary
Associate Professor of Philosophy Rivka Weinberg explores “Why Life is Absurd” in a commentary published in The New York Times. In the piece, she writes, “The absurdity of human life poses a challenge to its meaning. Absurdity and meaningfulness don’t go together.”
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Gabrielle Giffords ’93: “She is a hero”
On the four year anniversary of the Tuscon, Arizona shooting that injured Gabrielle Giffords ’93 and took the lives of six others, President Barack Obama met with the Scripps College alumna and said plainly: “she is a hero.”
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Iowa Public Radio and Washington Post Profile Scripps College Professor’s “Cooking in the Archives” Blog
Iowa Public Radio and a Washington Post blog both feature Visiting Professor Marissa Nicosia for a blog she co-writes that re-purposes 17th and 18th century recipes for modern kitchens.
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“President Obama’s immigration policy will change my life”
A recent article by Prisma Herrera ’18 has personalized the debate over President Obama’s immigrant amnesty order.
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Claremont Courier Profiles Guest Speaker at Intercollegiate Feminist Center
The Claremont Courier profiled Moscow-born journalist and activist Masha Gessen during her recent visit to Scripps College, where she spoke as an invited guest lecturer of the Intercollegiate Feminist Center for Teaching, Research and Engagement.
Read MoreScripps College Professor Featured on Inland Empire’s Public Radio Show for her Efforts in Food Justice
Professor of International Political Economy Nancy Neiman Auerbach was recently featured on KVCR-FM 91.9’s public radio show, Savory Road, for her efforts promoting food justice.
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