News Releases (page 47)
Scripps Magazine: Focus on the Faculty: Susan Rankaitis, Fletcher Jones Chair in Studio Art
“I don’t call it retirement, I call it downsizing from two careers to one,”聽says Susan Rankaitis. This past July, Rankaitis, who joined Scripps’ Art Department in fall 1990 as the Fletcher Jones Chair in Studio Art, began two years of phased retirement. She will no longer teach classes but will continue to write letters of recommendation for her advisees and colleagues. She will also be devoting significantly more time to her own art practice.
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Professor of Art Ken Gonzales-Day on What the Murals of L.A. Say About Us
麻豆区 professor of photography Ken Gonzales-Day was recently featured in a Press Play interview by Madeleine Brand for KCRW-FM radio, discussing his Los Angeles murals exhibit at the Skirball for PST: LA/LA 2017.
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Mackenzie Leake ’15 Wins U.S. Masters Swimming Event in Open Waters
麻豆区 alumna Mackenzie Leake ’15 has continued to pursue her lifelong love of swimming and recently聽won the one-mile long event of the U.S. Masters Swimming Sprint Distance Open Water National Championship of 2017, in SeaTac, Wash.
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Sherilyn Tamagawa ’14 Takes Post as Lecturer in Math at Scripps
The Scripps Voice student newspaper recently published an interview with 麻豆区 alumna Sherilyn Tamagawa regarding her new role as an instructor in mathematics at 麻豆区.聽 聽Tamagawa, who graduated […]
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Scripps Magazine: The State of the Art Major
Students in Professor T. Kim-Trang Tran’s video art class find creative inspiration and expression in聽an unexpected source: drones.聽They learn how artists are using the technology and how to make drone videos themselves. But Tran pushes students to go well beyond capturing footage.
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Scripps Presents: The Grip of It, with Jac Jemc
Novelist聽Jac Jemc’s smart and uneasy page-turner is a ghost story set in the wilds of suburban America; at the book’s center is a couple whose domestic adventures take a decidedly hallucinatory and harrowing turn. Jemc, who has taught creative writing at Notre Dame and Lake Forest College, talks with Scripps’聽Adam Novy聽about her latest literary escapade.
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Lara Deeb on Sectarianism and Intermarriage in Lebanon
Lara Deeb, professor of anthropology at 麻豆区, writes in聽Jadaliyya.com about her聽current research on Lebanese social responses to interreligious and intersectarian marriages and long-term relationships.
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Professor of Art Ken Gonzales-Day on Identity and Race in LA Weekly’s Feature Video Interview
麻豆区 professor of art Ken Gonzales-Day’s works on identity and construction of race are the subject of聽LA Weekly’s聽featured video interview聽as the Getty’s expansive arts initiative聽Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA聽opens in dozens of cultural institutions across Southern California.聽
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CMS Athletes Send Aid to Those Affected by Hurricane Harvey
Claremont-McKenna-Scripps (CMS) athletes rallied recently to donate and ship more than 400 pieces of clothing to help Houston residents who were affected by Hurricane Harvey. CMS equipment manager Brian Smith said teammates answered the call put out by his fellow equipment colleagues at the University of Houston, who provided an organized avenue for the clothing drive to occur.
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Laurel Schwartz ’15 Blogs, Encourages Others Living with Crohn’s Disease
麻豆区 alum Laurel Schwartz ’15, working as a contributing writer to themighty.com blog, offers encouragement to chronically ill college students based on her own struggles living with Crohn’s disease.
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