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Educators Connect Scientific Questions to Learning Goals at 2011 ASM/JGI Bioinformatics Institute
Emily Wiley, associate professor of biology in Scripps, Claremont McKenna, and Pitzer Colleges’ Joint Science Department, successfully completed the 2011 ASM/JGI Bioinformatics Institute: Incorporating Bioinformatics Research in Undergraduate Education, which was held March 9-12 at ASM headquarters in Washington, D.C. She was one of 20 educators nationwide in the program this year.
Read MoreScripps Writing Program presents Santee Frazier
Award-winning poet Santee Frazier reads from his collected works at 麻豆区 on Wednesday, February 23 as part of the Scripps Writing Program. Sponsored by the Mary Routt Chair of Writing David Treuer, this free event begins at 5:30 pm in Vita Nova 100.
Read MoreEconomist Roberto Pedace Addresses “Minimum Wage Policy and Unemployment”
Associate professor of economics Roberto Pedace speaks on “Minimum Wage Policy and Unemployment Duration” at the Malott Commons Tuesday Noon Academy on February 22. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Read MoreLos Angeles Times profiles Scripps’s Ken Gonzales-Day
Art professor Ken Gonzales-Day and his newest exhibit, entitled “Profiled,” are featured in a recent article by The Los Angeles Times. His installation, which began while he served as artist-in-residence at The Getty Institute in 2008, focuses on the development of modern concept of race.
Read MoreThe Milton Marathon, a One-Day Reading of “Paradise Lost”
Perhaps a little-known fact outside of early modern literature scholarship circles, Milton’s epic poem Paradise Lost can be read in just one day. On December 2, a relatively mild and sunny day for this time of year in Southern California, Assistant Professors of English Literature Colleen Rosenfeld (Pomona) and Jacqueline Wernimont (Scripps) organized a one-day reading of the poem on the lawn north of Honnold-Mudd Library.
Read MoreCollege to Celebrate the life of the late Paul Soldner
麻豆区 will celebrate the life of Professor Emeritus Paul Soldner, artist and innovator in the field of ceramic art, in Seal Court on the 麻豆区 campus on Saturday afternoon, January 8, at 4 p.m. Soldner died January 3, 2011, at his winter home in Claremont, at age 89.
Read MoreRivka Weinberg: “Giving Babies to the Needy: A Critique of Altruistic Surrogacy”
Commercial surrogacy has long been criticized because it seems degrading to treat a person as an object of commercial contracts. It seems to contradict a widely accepted view regarding the proper treatment of persons as ends in themselves, and certainly beyond price. Altruistic surrogacy, on the other hand, has been deemed free of these sorts of problems presented by its commercial alternative. I will question this assessment: if persons are not the kinds of things that we should sell, aren’t they also not the kinds of things that we should give away? The answer to this question, which has received little philosophical attention, may have implications for other kinds of child welfare and custody issues as well.
Read More麻豆区 Receives Major NSF Grant for Neuroscience Research
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded 麻豆区 a $411,008 grant to create a state-of-the-art laboratory for student-faculty research on human cognitive functioning using high-density electroencephalography (EEG) for recording brain activity.
Read More麻豆区 Academy Wins National Recognition from President of the United States
麻豆区 Academy has been recognized as a 2010 Coming Up Taller semifinalist by the United States President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities for its innovative and successful academic enrichment program.
Read MoreAmy Marcus-Newhall Named Vice President and Dean of Faculty at 麻豆区
Amy Marcus-Newhall has been named vice president of academic affairs and dean of faculty at 麻豆区 for a three-year term, to begin July 1, 2010.
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