News Releases (page 73)
Scripps College Appoints Rhonda Risser as Financial Aid Director
Scripps College Vice President for Enrollment and Financial Aid Victoria Romero today announced the appointment of Rhonda Risser as the new director of financial aid. Risser previously worked as associate director of the office prior to becoming interim director in September; the new position is effective Jan. 1.
Read MoreBiology Professor Jennifer Armstrong Receives $450,000 NSF Grant
Associate Professor of Biology Jennifer Armstrong received a $450,000 three-year grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to research chromosome structure and gene expression. Armstrong teaches at the W.M. Keck Science Department of Pitzer College, Claremont McKenna College and Scripps College.
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Claremont Concert Orchestra Observes 10th Anniversary of Scripps College Performing Arts Center
The Claremont Concert Orchestra and the Claremont Chorale celebrate the 50th anniversary of Garrison Theater and the 10th anniversary of the Scripps College Performing Arts Center by performing Beethoven’s “Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125” at 8 p.m. on Dec. 14 and at 3 p.m. on Dec. 15 in Garrison Theater of the Scripps College Performing Arts Center, 241 E. 10th St. This event is free and open to the public.
Read MoreSeven Andy Warhol Prints Gifted to Scripps College
Following Andy Warhol’s lead, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. continues to surprise and delight. In 2008, Scripps College received an astonishing gift of 150 Warhol works, including 50 silver gelatin prints, as part of the Andy Warhol Photographic Legacy Program. Now, five years later, the foundation has chosen to donate yet again to the Scripps Collection. Seven substantially-sized prints, each created by Andy Warhol, have just been added to the Scripps College collection.
Read MoreScripps and Pomona Dance present “In The Works…” A Concert of Student Danceworks
“In The Works…” is the annual fall concert by students of the departments of Dance at Scripps and Pomona Colleges. The concert will take place Dec. 5, 6 and 7 at 8 p.m. and on Dec. 7 at 2 p.m. in the Pendleton Dance Studio, Pomona College, 333 N College Way. General admission is $5 and tickets will be sold at the door. (Check or cash only please.)
Read MoreScripps College Launches $175 Million Fundraising Campaign
Scripps College has launched the most ambitious campaign in its history – a $175 million initiative for students scholarships, the LASPA Center (Leadership, Analysis, Scholarship, Public Service, Action) programming, internships, and the extraordinary teaching and campus for which Scripps is known.
Read MoreScripps College Names Donna Ng Vice President for Business Affairs
After a national search, Scripps College President Lori Bettison-Varga announces the appointment of Donna Ng as vice president for business affairs and treasurer of the College, effective Jan. 27. Ng will fill the position vacated by Joanne M. Coville, who retires with more than two years of service.
Read MoreScripps College’s Ken Gonzales-Day Curates Photo Exhibition of Western American Indians from “Edward S. Curtis and ‘The Vanishing Race'”
The Claremont Colleges’ Honnold Library hosts a photo exhibition of nearly 100 of Curtis’ still images. Scripps College Professor of Art Ken Gonzales-Day curated this free show located on the second floor of the library’s Honnold wing. The library is located at 800 N. Dartmouth Ave., Claremont, Calif. The display runs through Dec. 1.
Read MoreCelebrating 70 Years of Cutting-Edged Clay: Scripps College Ceramic Annual
The annual Scripps College Ceramic — the longest-running exhibition of contemporary ceramics in the United States — will celebrate its 70th year with its opening on Jan. 25. Traditionally an “artist’s choice” event, this year’s exhibition – which continues through April 6 – will bring together a large number of past curators from the show’s long history to celebrate art in clay.
Read MoreWard Churchill to Lecture on Colonialism and Genocide in the U.S. on Nov. 14
Scripps College’s Core Curriculum in Interdisciplinary Humanities will host American Indian scholar and activist Ward Churchill on Nov. 14 at 7:30 p.m., in Garrison Theater at the Scripps College Performing Arts Center, 231 E. 10th St. Churchill’s lecture, “Colonialism=Genocide: Applying the Sartrean Equation to the U.S Context,” is free and open to the public.
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