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Spotlight on Faculty


September 13, 2024

Professor Diane Thomson Receives $345K National Science Foundation Grant for Climate Change Research

Associate Professor of Chemistry Ethan Van Arnam and his lab have been awarded a three-year, $400,000+ R15 grant from the National Institutes of Health.

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May 28, 2024

Ethan Van Arnam Awarded Grant from National Institutes of Health

Associate Professor of Chemistry Ethan Van Arnam and his lab have been awarded a three-year, $400,000+ R15 grant from the National Institutes of Health.

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May 10, 2024

Faculty Spotlight: Assistant Professor of Philosophy Martin Glazier

As a philosophy professor, Martin Glazier has two main goals in the classroom: 鈥淔irst, I try to communicate to students that many of the most important and foundational questions we can ask about ourselves and our world are totally open. Second, I try to show them that this realization shouldn鈥檛 cause paralysis.”

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March 20, 2024

Spotlight on Faculty: Mary-Alice Daniel, Mary Routt Chair of Writing

Scripps’ 2024 Mary Routt Chair of Writing is Mary-Alice Daniel, an award-winning, cross-genre writer born near the Niger/Nigeria border and raised in England and Tennessee.

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February 4, 2019

In the Media: Professor Edwalds-Gilbert and Professor Weinberg Discuss Genetic Modification in Humans

Assistant Professor of Biology Gretchen Edwalds-Gilbert and Professor of Philosophy Rivka Weinberg were聽quoted extensively in an article by Live Science about genetic engineering.聽According to Edwalds-Gilbert, the gene-modifying technology, CRISPR, offers avenues for finding cures for cancer and for locating and modifying the DNA that may lead to future disease in an individual.

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November 28, 2017

Spotlight on Faculty: James Garrison, Visiting Assistant Professor of Africana Studies

James Garrison, a Consortium for Faculty Diversity Fellow and visiting assistant professor in the Intercollegiate Department of Africana Studies, began a one-year appointment in fall 2017 at The Claremont Colleges, with 61传媒 as his home campus.

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June 28, 2016

Spotlight on Faculty: Nathalie Rachlin, Margaret McKenzie Distinguished Professorship in Modern Foreign Languages

Nathalie Rachlin, Margaret McKenzie Distinguished Professorship in Modern Foreign Languages, is Professor of French at 61传媒, where she teaches French literature, culture, and cinema, as well as a variety of courses for Scripps’ Core Curriculum in the Interdisciplinary Humanities.

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February 5, 2016

Spotlight on Faculty: Mary Hatcher-Skeers, Professor of Chemistry

Mary Hatcher-Skeers was appointed as the Sidney J. Weinberg, Jr. Chair in Natural Sciences in 2012 in recognition of her outstanding teaching and contributions to scholarship in the natural sciences.

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January 12, 2016

Spotlight on Faculty: Andrew Jacobs, Mary W. Johnson ’35 and J. Stanley Johnson Professorship in Humanities and Professor of Religious Studies

Andrew Jacobs was appointed to the Mary W. Johnson ’35 and J. Stanley Johnson Chair Professorship in Humanities in 2015. Established in 1995, the professorship acknowledges Jacobs as a tenured senior faculty member and recognizes his outstanding teaching and contributions to the interdisciplinary humanities.

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October 29, 2015

Spotlight on Faculty: Jih-Fei Cheng, Assistant Professor in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Jih-Fei Cheng joins the 61传媒faculty this fall as assistant professor in feminist, gender, and sexuality studies. Cheng completed his PhD in American studies and ethnicity, with an emphasis in visual studies, at the University of Southern California. His dissertation, AIDS and Its Afterlives: Race, Gender, and the Queer Radical Imagination, examines how experimental videos produced by AIDS activists during the 1980s until the mid-90s continue to politically intervene into contemporary popular media and social movements.

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