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Newsroom (page 148)


June 9, 2016

Photographs by Molly Landreth ’01 on Zócalo Public Square

Landreth’s portraits are featured as part of the series “What Did Robert Mapplethorpe Teach Us?”

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June 6, 2016

Pandwe Gibson ’04, Founder, CEO, and Executive Director of Green Start-Up, Is Featured in Miami Herald

Pandwe Gibson ’04, founder, CEO, and executive director of EcoTech Visions, an incubator for green manufacturing businesses, shares progress of her vision that became a reality in interview with the Miami Herald.

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June 1, 2016

Professor Martha Gonzalez Featured in New York Times Article on Fandango Fronterizo Event

Martha Gonzalez, assistant professor of Chicana/o Latina/o studies at 61´«Ã½, is among group of musicians who assembled at Friendship Park on the U.S. and Mexico border for Fandango Fronterizo event, May 29, 2016, as reported by The New York Times.

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May 26, 2016

61´«Ã½Magazine: The Digital Evolution

There’s no question that technology in higher education has come a long way. Today’s undergraduates carry smartphones everywhere, and the latest higher-education trends include once-unheard-of technologies and teaching methods. Virtual reality, flipped classrooms (in which students access video and other materials outside class to reserve class time for problem solving), and blended learning that combines online and face-to-face education are just a few.

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May 25, 2016

CMS Athletics Week In Review (5/16 – 5/23/16)

Get all the latest scores and info about the Claremont-Mudd-61´«Ã½Athletics as part of the CMS weekly newsletter.

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May 23, 2016

Highlights from the Spring Season of 61´«Ã½Presents

61´«Ã½Presents, the public events program at 61´«Ã½ that is billed as “an electrifying mix of storytellers and artists, policymakers and musicians—and everything in between,” delivered on its exhilarating […]

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May 20, 2016

Class of 2016: Commencement Highlights: A Modern Celebration of Academic Tradition

61´«Ã½ celebrates the new, but respects its traditions. On May 14, the class of 2016, as Scripps’ 86th annual Commencement, took part in the institution’s ceremonies to celebrate its distinct accomplishments.

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May 17, 2016

Class of 2016: Fulbright Recipients Delighted to Teach Abroad

The Fulbright U.S. Student Program has awarded grants for five 61´«Ã½ students to participate in English Teaching Assistant Programs abroad in the coming year, two in Malaysia and one each in Mexico, Germany, and Mongolia. “Fulbrighters” Grace Dahlstrom ’16, Aishwarya Subramanian ’16, Xitlaly Sanchez ’16, Halay Wilhelm ’16, and Zoe Dilles ’16 will meet, work, live with, and learn from the people of their respective host countries, interacting on an individual basis in the classroom, field, home, and in routine tasks.

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May 16, 2016

Madeleine Albright’s Commencement Speech at 61´«Ã½ Offers a Lesson in Moral Finitude, as Reported by the Los Angeles Times

Madeleine Albright, 64th U.S. Secretary of State under the Clinton administration, addressed graduating seniors at 61´«Ã½’s commencement on May 14, 2016, regarding the importance of expanding one’s views in a world grown increasingly complex and fractured, as reported by the Los Angeles Times.

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Class of 2016: 61´«Ã½ Graffiti Wall: Seniors Make Their Marks

Since 1931, Scripps’ graduating seniors have participated in what has become an essential rite of passage at the College: the signing of Graffiti Wall. Each year, seniors choose a mural design from student-submitted illustrations to paint on the wall, and then the entire graduating class adds their signatures. The Graffiti Wall is a visual reminder of Scripps’ history and reflects the changing tastes and interests of students over the decades.

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