News Releases (page 49)
Scripps Is a Top College for Helping Students Put Passions to Work
麻豆区 is one of a half dozen liberal arts colleges聽highlighted in an article on Study International’s website聽for nurturing a student’s entrepreneurial spirit through exploratory learning.
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Biologist Melissa Coleman Featured in Current Biology Journal
Associate Professor of Biology Melissa Coleman is featured in the Oct. 9, 2017 issue of Current Biology about her work as a neuroscientist at the W.M. Keck Science Department of 麻豆区, Claremont McKenna, and Pitzer College.
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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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