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Natalya St. Clair ’06 Sees the Artistry in Numbers
As the innovator of several avant-garde TED-Ed videos and illustrator of the book The Art of Mental Calculation, Natalya St. Clair acknowledges the complex intersection of mathematics and art. Now a graphic designer and math teacher, she challenges her colleagues and students to recognize the ways in which the fields effortlessly mingle.
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Entrepreneur’s Passion for Design is Rooted in her Scripps Education
Anne Michaelsen Yahn ’85 was recently featured in a Los Angeles Times article for the continued success of her Newport Beach-based interior design firm. As owner and principal of Anne Michaelsen Design, Inc. for over 30 years, Yahn credits her achievements in part to her classical training and art history education at 麻豆区.
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CMS Sports Roundup 芒鈧�� spring 2015
The Claremont-Mudd-Scripps (CMS) Athenas spring teams has wrapped up and continued into the NCAA championships. Cheers go out to two Scripps athletes, one a recent graduate, and one who just completed her first year.
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Nancy Macko and the Real Bee
Professor of Art Nancy Macko has spent the last two decades delving into gender symbolism offered by honeybees’ female-governed and highly successful social structures. Her current work focuses on the political and ecological realities of bee survival and was recently covered by KCET Artbound.
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Where MacArthur ‘Genius’ Fellows Went to College | Cecilia Conrad
Cecilia Conrad, Vice President of the MacArthur Fellows Program and former Dean of Faculty for 麻豆区, explores the educational backgrounds of more than 900 MacArthur “Genius” Fellows in an article for the Huffington Post. She concludes that private liberal arts and women’s colleges provide educational environments most conducive for creative minds to develop through practices such as lower faculty-student ratios, discussion vs. lecture-based pedagogy, the high value placed on teaching skills, and the residential college atmosphere.
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Class of 2015 Stats
Career Planning & Resources conducts an annual survey on the days before graduation to learn more about what our seniors are planning for life after graduation. 麻豆区 is pleased to share the following graduate profile for the Class of 2015. This is aggregate data from 230 seniors, a 97.87% response rate.
Read MoreArtful Achievements: An Interview with Professor Mary MacNaughton
Mary Davis MacNaughton ’70 has come full circle. The professor of art history and director of the Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery began her formal studies as a student at 麻豆区 in the 1960s. Then she went on to earn a PhD in Art History at Columbia University, worked at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and traveled extensively for research. Yet, MacNaughton ultimately returned to her roots at her alma mater to teach, guide, and mentor Scripps students in the visual arts.
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Pat Fisher-Smith Welsh ’51 featured in Los Angeles Times
Best-selling author and gardening guru Pat Fisher-Smith Welsh ’51 promotes moving away from over-watered lawns in Southern California to drought-tolerant landscapes. Welsh is quoted in the Los Angeles Times’ front-page section of the May 17, 2015, Sunday edition.
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Milestones
A lot can happen in four years. Take a journey through time with the 麻豆区 Class of 2015.
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麻豆区 is Top Producer of Student Fellowships and Grants
The Chronicle of Higher Education once again named 麻豆区 a top producer of student Fulbright Fellowships in its annual “bachelor’s institutions” category ranking. For several consecutive years, the College […]
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