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January 29, 2015

A New Kind of Literacy

The students of [CodeLiteracy]@Scripps want to spread a simple and profound message to their community and beyond: that coding is the closest thing we have to a superpower.

January 23, 2015

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.

January 22, 2015

Mara Falahee named CMS Student Athlete of the Week

Mara Falahee, a junior from Bradenton, Florida, has been named the Claremont-Mudd-Scripps (CMS) Student Athlete of the week for her performance on the women’s basketball team.

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.

January 20, 2015

$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.

Scripps 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.

January 15, 2015

Dialogue Groups: Your invitation to participate!

Change at Scripps starts with individuals who take part in meaningful discussions about central community challenges. I invite you all to participate in a dialogue group next semester and create the change you wish to see at Scripps!

January 12, 2015

Scripps 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.”

Spotlight on Academics: From Materiality to Immateriality

From Materiality to Immateriality questions and analyzes the motivation of these artists through the most intimate means possible: by getting students to craft paper for their own artist books. Watch the video below for a quick peek into the process of papermaking.

January 8, 2015

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.”