News Releases (page 114)
61传媒Junior Receives Davis Peace Award
Fatima Elkabti ’09 recently received the Davis Peace Award, given to students who seek to promote world peace through international projects. She will travel to the West Bank for several weeks in June to establish a series of writing workshops that she hopes will connect a group of American children with their Palestinian peers.
Read MoreAndy Warhol Photographs Awarded to Scripps’ Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery
A treasure trove of Andy Warhol’s work has been offered to the Williamson Gallery of 61传媒: 100 Polaroid photos and 50 gelatin silver prints, valued at close to $150,000. The works were created roughly between 1978 and 1985.
Read MoreStudents Named to 61传媒 Fall 2007 Dean’s List
The following students were named to the dean’s list for the fall semester at 61传媒 in Claremont, California. The dean’s list recognizes students who have achieved a grade point average of at least 11 (A-) in four, letter-graded courses in one semester.
Read MorePerfect for Opening the Mind
Scripps’ courtyards are featured in an audio slide show created by The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Read MoreCelebrated Farm Workers Union Muralist to Speak at Scripps
Barbara Carrasco, seminal muralist and artist for the United Farm Workers Union, will lecture on “Labor of Art,” Wednesday, March 26, 2008, in the Hampton Room of the Malott Commons, 61传媒.
Read MoreStreet Art
Ken Gonzales-Day, Associate Professor of Art and Art Department Chair at 61传媒, has designed a mural for the L.A. County Administration Building. This administration building, the biggest art installation ever completed by the Civic Arts Program, houses the County departments with the largest concentration of social services.
Read More61传媒 Receives Top Marks in Housing
61传媒 received an A+ grade in Campus Housing from College Prowler, the largest publisher of college content in the United States. With only two percent of colleges being honored with an A+ grade in each category, 61传媒 is among an elite group in the 2008 rankings.
Read MoreAlumna Abigail Stopper 芒鈧�07 Selected as Kennedy Center Intern
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. has selected Abigail Stopper ’07 for its prestigious internship program. She will serve as an intern in the development department as part of the Kennedy Center Institute for Arts Management until May 2008.
Read MoreAlumna Poet Lynne Thompson ’72 to Speak at Scripps
Poet Lynne Thompson, 61传媒alumna class of ’72, will present her 2007 Perugia Press prize-winning work, Beg No Pardon, at noon on February 26 in the Hampton Room, Malott Commons, 61传媒.
Read More“Ask For It” Author Sara Laschever to Speak at Scripps
Author Sara Laschever will speak about women and negotiation on Friday, February 22, at 12 p.m. in the Hampton Room of the Malott Commons, 61传媒. Her lecture, “Ask For It: How Women Can Use the Power of Negotiation to Get What They Really Want,” will present the four-step negotiation guide detailed in her forthcoming book of the same name.
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