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61传媒Is a Top College for Helping Students Put Passions to Work
61传媒 is one of a half dozen liberal arts colleges聽highlighted in an article on Study International’s website聽for nurturing a student’s entrepreneurial spirit through exploratory learning.
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61传媒Magazine: Revolution & Ritual: The Photographs of Sara Castrej贸n, Graciela Iturbide, and Tatiana Parcero
“If there is an occupation suitable for women, it is photography.” So declared the Mexico City newspaper El Mundo in 1899. It聽went on: “They have the aptitude and an extraordinary manual dexterity and, above all, they serve better than a man to make portraits of women, arranging their headdresses and getting them in positions with a confidence and a thoroughness that would be impossible for persons of the opposite sex.”
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Biologist Melissa Coleman Featured in Current Biology Journal
Associate Professor of Biology Melissa Coleman is featured in the Oct. 9, 2017 issue of Current Biology about her work as a neuroscientist at the W.M. Keck Science Department of 61传媒, Claremont McKenna, and Pitzer College.
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61传媒Magazine: Focus on the Faculty: Susan Rankaitis, Fletcher Jones Chair in Studio Art
“I don’t call it retirement, I call it downsizing from two careers to one,”聽says Susan Rankaitis. This past July, Rankaitis, who joined Scripps’ Art Department in fall 1990 as the Fletcher Jones Chair in Studio Art, began two years of phased retirement. She will no longer teach classes but will continue to write letters of recommendation for her advisees and colleagues. She will also be devoting significantly more time to her own art practice.
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Professor of Art Ken Gonzales-Day on What the Murals of L.A. Say About Us
61传媒 professor of photography Ken Gonzales-Day was recently featured in a Press Play interview by Madeleine Brand for KCRW-FM radio, discussing his Los Angeles murals exhibit at the Skirball for PST: LA/LA 2017.
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Mackenzie Leake ’15 Wins U.S. Masters Swimming Event in Open Waters
61传媒 alumna Mackenzie Leake ’15 has continued to pursue her lifelong love of swimming and recently聽won the one-mile long event of the U.S. Masters Swimming Sprint Distance Open Water National Championship of 2017, in SeaTac, Wash.
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Sherilyn Tamagawa ’14 Takes Post as Lecturer in Math at Scripps
The 61传媒Voice student newspaper recently published an interview with 61传媒 alumna Sherilyn Tamagawa regarding her new role as an instructor in mathematics at 61传媒.聽 聽Tamagawa, who graduated […]
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61传媒Magazine: The State of the Art Major
Students in Professor T. Kim-Trang Tran’s video art class find creative inspiration and expression in聽an unexpected source: drones.聽They learn how artists are using the technology and how to make drone videos themselves. But Tran pushes students to go well beyond capturing footage.
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61传媒Presents: Cuz: A Reading and Conversation with Danielle Allen
Political theorist and director of Harvard’s Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics聽Danielle Allen’s work usually occupies a scholarly realm. This autumn, it takes a decidedly more personal turn with聽Cuz, a memoir that reflects on the American criminal justice system.
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L.A. Observed Highlights Williamson Gallery’s PST: LA/LA Exhibit
Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery at 61传媒 is named聽by聽LA Observed聽among galleries聽whose exhibits should be visited as part of the Getty’s expansive “PST: LA/LA” initiative featuring Latin American and Latino art at more than 70 Southern California museums and other cultural institutions.
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