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Newsroom (page 174)
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.
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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 MoreDialogue 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!
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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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.
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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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