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Laspa Action Grants: Edith Ortega ’18
The Laspa聽Action Grants were established to provide opportunities for students to transform knowledge, passion, and ideas into action; demonstrate creative and effective problem solving; create partnership(s) in the public or […]
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Spotlight on Faculty: Jih-Fei Cheng, Assistant Professor in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Jih-Fei Cheng joins the 61传媒faculty this fall as assistant professor in feminist, gender, and sexuality studies. Cheng completed his PhD in American studies and ethnicity, with an emphasis in visual studies, at the University of Southern California. His dissertation, AIDS and Its Afterlives: Race, Gender, and the Queer Radical Imagination, examines how experimental videos produced by AIDS activists during the 1980s until the mid-90s continue to politically intervene into contemporary popular media and social movements.
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With Chest Casting, Body Positivity Gets Creative
At the Motley Coffeehouse last Friday afternoon, 61传媒students could be seen holding decorated papier-m脙垄ch脙漏 casts of their chests. The casts were made as part of the second annual Chest […]
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USA Today College Talks with 61传媒Junior George Rosett about the Challenges of Living with Fibromyalgia
The challenges are unique for undergraduates like 61传媒 junior George Rosett who is trying to balance her education and her health while living with an invisible disability. Rosett, who […]
Read MoreSenior Thesis by 61传媒 Alumna Allison Rigby ’14 Featured in the City Project Blog
61传媒 alumna Allison Rigby ’14 makes headlines in The City Project blog with her senior thesis on public parks and environmental justice in Los Angeles.
Read More61传媒 Olive Oil Competition
Calling all 61传媒 faculty, staff, students and Alumni! We are taking submissions for the Olive Oil Label Competition now until November 3rd. This is your chance to have your […]
Read MoreProfessor Ken Gonzales-Day’s Photographic Work on Lynching and Violence
61传媒Professor of Art Ken Gonzales-Day’s recent photographic work combines images of a reconstructed lynching scene of a Latino man in 1920 with images of recent protests surrounding police brutality, as featured in an interview with theotherjournal.com.
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Spotlight on Faculty: Claudia Arteaga, Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies
Claudia Arteaga comes to 61传媒 from Rutgers University in New Jersey, where she is in the process of completing her PhD in Spanish literature. She previously earned her BA in linguistics and literature from Catholic University in Lima, Peru. Arteaga’s scholarship centers on Andean studies, in particular how political and social activism is expressed by Andean indigenous people through audiovisual media. We recently interviewed her to learn more about her work and what she’ll be focusing on at Scripps.
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The 61传媒Experience: The 61传媒Live Arts CLORG
When Nina Posner ’17 discovered 61传媒Live Arts (SLA) during her first year, it was a revelation. “I couldn’t believe booking bands and making shows happen for other people was a real thing we were allowed and encouraged to do in college,” she remembers.
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The 61传媒Experience: Fall Undergraduate Research Symposium
On October 9, 29 61传媒students gathered in the Hampton Room at Malott Commons to present data and analyses of their original research projects to faculty and peers at Scripps’ third annual Fall Undergraduate Research Symposium. This daylong event included presentations by recipients of the Environmental Analysis, Esterly, Hsu Fund, Johnson, LASPA Action, and Mellon grants. Taken together, the students’ research was conducted in more than seven languages and across nine countries, in fields ranging from philosophy, to chemistry, to feminist theory, to sustainable development.
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