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In the Media: 61传媒Featured in Chronicle on Trending of Women’s Colleges
61传媒 was featured in聽an article by the聽Chronicle of Higher Education聽about increasing interest in women’s colleges.
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In the Media: Elizabeth Robbins Turk ’83 Featured in L.A. Times for The Shoreline Project
Elizabeth聽Robbins聽Turk ’83聽was featured in the聽Los Angeles Times聽for her newest art piece, “The Shoreline Project.” Turk was commissioned by the Laguna Art Museum to create the project for the museum’s annual Art & Nature聽festival.
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Spotlight on Faculty: Sarah Budischak, Assistant Professor of Biology
This fall, Sarah Budischak joined the faculty of the W.M. Keck Science Department as an assistant professor of biology. She is an ecologist who studies infectious disease鈥攕pecifically, how different environmental contexts affect organisms’ responses to parasitic infection. This exploration has brought her into close contact with worms, mice, and free-ranging African buffalo. We spoke with her about the origins of infectious disease, how parasites compete for resources, and a club called the Parasite Ladies.
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61传媒Student, Alumnae, Make Prominent Showing in Claremont Art World
Visit the Claremont Museum of Art (CMA) this fall, and you will encounter a lively menagerie: mermaids glide in crystalline waters, horses gallop across rolling foothills, and cats impishly peer out at passersby. The exhibition Primal Nature: Animalia by Women in Post-War Claremont features fauna of various stripes and feathers represented in a variety of media鈥攆rom sculptures in bronze, clay, and wood to watercolor paintings to wool fiber needlework鈥攁ll by Claremont women artists, including several 61传媒alumnae.
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Spotlight on Students: 61传媒Classmates Give ‘Vote of Confidence’ to Students Registering for Midterm Elections
Self-described “friends, classmates, and policy nerds” Maggie Thompson ’20 and Harper Mills ’20, both politics majors, were recently talking about the upcoming midterm elections. The conversation grew lively (as political conversations tend to do), and they both realized how critical it was to get as many 61传媒students registered to vote as possible.
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In the Media: Gavin Turek ’09 “dominates” performance on Conan
Singer, songwriter, and dancer聽Gavin聽Turek ’09 was a聽featured musical guest on聽Conan聽on September 27, 2018.聽As reported by Billboard.com, she “dominated the聽Conan聽stage” with her “disco-infused track” “My Delight.”
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The 61传媒Experience: Disability, Illness, and Difference Alliance CLORG
The room was mostly quiet, but about 20 students, faculty, and staff from The Claremont Colleges were grinning ear to ear as they each held their fists one atop the other, with the top fist circling above the lower. They were following the lead of UCLA Lecturer of American Sign Language (ASL) Benjamin Lewis, who was giving a short ASL lesson (here, teaching the sign for “coffee”) before beginning his presentation, “Understanding the Deaf World.”
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In the Media: Gabby Giffords ’93 Begins Campaigning Across the Country on Gun Control
The聽Huffington Post reported聽that Gabby Giffords ’93, former Arizona Democratic congressmember who survived an assassination attempt in 2011, will begin campaigning across the country to bolster the midterm campaigns of Democrats who support gun control.
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In the Media: The Washington Post Features Sustainability at Scripps
The聽Washington Post聽featured Scripps’ sustainability coordinator, Tiffany Ortamond, in an article about聽the聽campus’s efforts to reduce waste.
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Dancing with Themselves: Bridgman|Packer Dance Uses Technology to Bridge Real and Virtual Performance at Scripps聽
“I’m trying to think of the word,” says choreographer and long-time lecturer in Dance Suchi Branfman. “I want to say 芒鈧渁we-inspiring,’ but even that doesn’t cut it, doesn’t get at the heart of it.” She ruminates for a few more moments, and then it strikes her: “Mind bending! The possibilities they present, the provocative direction they’re taking, it really is mind bending.”
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