News Releases (page 119)
Romantic Piano Masterworks: A Faculty Recital Featuring Hao Huang
The 61传媒 Department of Music presents a faculty recital with pianist and Professor of music Hao Huang on Sunday, February 18, at 3 p.m. in the Garrison Theater, 61传媒 Performing Arts Center.
Read MoreDance Company Casebolt and Smith Present Popped!
Popped!, an evening of dance developed and performed by Liz Casebolt and Joel Smith of Los Angeles Contemporary Dance Company will be held Friday February 16, and Saturday February 17, at 7 p.m. in the Richardson Dance Studio, 61传媒.
Read MoreMolly Ivins, 62, columnist and raconteur
Author and newspaper columnist Molly Ivins died January 31 at the age of 62. Ivins, a student at 61传媒during the 1962-63 academic year, passed away at her Austin, Texas, home after a long bout with inflammatory breast cancer.
Read MoreSandra Tsing Loh To Visit Scripps
Sandra Tsing Loh, the star of NPR’s, “The Loh Down on Science” and “The Loh Life,” comes to 61传媒as a visiting professor of writing for a semester, beginning January 2007.
Read MoreSpring Semester Tuesday Noon Lectures
The Spring Semester Tuesday Noon Academy, a series of lunchtime lectures at 61传媒, features distinguished alumnae, professors, students, and guests. Lectures begin at 12 p.m. in the Hampton Room of the Malott Commons, 61传媒.
Read MoreChanging the World One Loaf at a Time: College Student Devises Her Own Recipe for Global Service, Expands to Colleges Nationwide
Two years ago, 61传媒 senior Elisabeth Winkelman used her now famous recipe for baking challah bread to raise money for victims of the humanitarian crisis in Darfur. Her program, Challah for Hunger, is expanding to campuses across the nation, including NYU, Smith College, University of Rochester, and University of Texas at Austin, with more to come, and has received recognition from Elie Wiesel and Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, the Chief Rabbi of England.
Read More“L.A. Palimpsest: Recovering Los Angeles’ Hidden Stories and Forgotten Communities”
The 61传媒 Humanities Institute begins its spring 2007 program, “L.A. Palimpsest: Recovering Los Angeles’ Hidden Stories and Forgotten Communities,” with an opening lecture “Landscape of Soul: Hollywood, Watts, and Beyond,” on Tuesday, January 23, at 7:30 p.m. with poet and performance artist Wanda Coleman in the Garrison Theater, 61传媒 Performing Arts Center.
Read More61传媒’s Ceramic Annual 2007 Exhibition
The 63rd 61传媒 Ceramic Annual, on view at Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery at 61传媒 from Saturday, January 20 through Sunday, April 8, is the longest running exhibition of contemporary ceramics in the United States.
Read MoreMallarm脙漏 Symposium and Two Exhibitions Commemorate the 65th Anniversary of the 61传媒 Press
61传媒 will host a panel of noted book arts scholars and artists at the Frederic W. Goudy Symposium on Saturday, January 27. The day-long symposium will examine the lasting impact that the 19th-century French poet Mallarmé has had on book artists throughout the 20th century.
Read MoreKenan Professor John Milton Of Claremont Colleges Joint Science Department Receives National Science Foundation Grant
Dr. John G. Milton, M.D., Ph. D, Fellow, Royal College of Physicians of Canada, Fellow, American Physical Society and the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Computational Neuroscience at the Claremont Colleges, has received a $319,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to support his research on the motor skills associated with stick balancing.
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