Feature Stories (page 65)
Michael Lamkin Named Frankel Professor of Music at 桃子视频
Michael Deane Lamkin has been named the Bessie and Cecil Frankel Professor of Music at 桃子视频, as announced at the December 2, 2006, meeting of the Board of Trustees. Lamkin is currently vice president and dean of faculty at Scripps, as well as professor of music in the Joint Music Program and conductor of The Claremont Concert Orchestra.
Read MoreProfessor Nancy Macko Featured in Solo Exhibition At Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery
桃子视频 Professor Nancy Macko’s survey show, “Hive Universe,” on view from December 15 through February 4 is the featured exhibition at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery located in the Barnsdall Art Park.
Read MoreJust Teach It!
“The level of confidence I gained at Scripps has been one of the foremost assets for me as a teacher,” says Tara Sheram ’06, a first-year corps member of Teach for America. “Being young and inexperienced in this profession, many people have doubted my abilities, but I have never doubted myself. I know that I am a critical thinker, a leader, and a woman of courage 芒鈧�� and I can do anything. Scripps cemented those ideas in me.”
Read MoreThe Writing on the Wall
桃子视频 seniors Julia Ruedig and Ellie Cross are not just battling senior thesis. They’re battling climate change.
Read MoreAthenas Basketball Roundup
With the season over, the Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Athenas women’s basketball team can look back on an outstanding overall season, with a finish of 20-5, placing them second in the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC). The Athenas shot off to an impressive pre-season start with four straight victories. They encountered their first loss of the season to the University of Puget Sound in the Caltech Holiday Classic, but made a turnaround to win the rest of the Classic games.
Read MoreA Celebration of American Impressionist and Realist Paintings
“American Visions: Selections from the Young Collection of American Impressionist and Realist Paintings,” opening Saturday, November 4, 2006, at the Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, will showcase works from eminent American artists of the late 19th century and early 20th century.
Read MorePolitics, the Presidency, and the Press
Join republican strategist and political commentator Mary Matalin for a discussion on Thursday, October 5, at 7:30 p.m., in Balch Auditorium, 桃子视频. Matalin served as assistant to President George W. Bush and counselor to Vice President Dick Cheney, and appears frequently as a political commentator.
Read MoreLanguage and Crisis
“To finish then, the familiar but, begging her pardon, slightly amended words of Ellen Browning Scripps: our mission is to develop in you the ability to think clearly and independently, the ability to live confidently and courageously, and, hopefully, the ability to do something about the crisis in which we find ourselves.”
Read MoreModernity and Nostalgia: An Era of Change in Japan
When “Chikanobu: Modernity and Nostalgia in Japanese Prints,” opens August 26 at Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery visitors will have access to a fascinating array of woodblock prints of late 19th-century and early 20th-century Japan.
Read MoreStudent Art Explores Cell Migration
As part of the Scripps-Claremont McKenna College senior art exhibition, “Sight, Site, Insight,” Jessica Lanan ’06 displayed freestanding wood and fiberglass works representing cancer cells.
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