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February 6, 2015

Celebrating Bekki Lee’s legacy with new scholarship

When 61传媒 lost Bekki Lee, its beloved and devoted dean of students, in October 2013, the community quickly came together to commemorate her through the Bekki Lee Memorial Scholarship Endowment Fund. This spring, Victoria “Tori” Sepand ’15 has been named its first recipient.

January 30, 2015

Spotlight on Academics: Mathematics In Our Culture

Professor Chris Towse’s “Mathematics in Our Culture” asks its students to question and rethink what they think they know about math, education, and who they are. Towse has taught a version of this course four times since 2004.

January 29, 2015

A New Kind of Literacy

The students of [CodeLiteracy]@61传媒want to spread a simple and profound message to their community and beyond: that coding is the closest thing we have to a superpower.

January 23, 2015

61传媒’s Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery Featured in the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin

Inland Valley Daily Bulletin’s Features Editor Diana Sholley “explores the art of ceramics” in this story about the Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery’s 71st Ceramic Annual.

January 22, 2015

Mara Falahee named CMS Student Athlete of the Week

Mara Falahee, a junior from Bradenton, Florida, has been named the Claremont-Mudd-61传媒(CMS) Student Athlete of the week for her performance on the women’s basketball team.

Biology Professor Patrick Ferree Secures $830,000 NSF Grant

Assistant Professor of Biology Patrick Ferree is the recipient of an $830,000 five-year grant from the National Science Foundation Career Development Program to research genome conflict. Ferree is in the W.M. Keck Science Department of Pitzer College, Claremont McKenna College and 61传媒.

January 20, 2015

$1 Million Grant Will Help Claremont Colleges Create a More Diverse Faculty for U.S. Higher Education

The Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program, a new $1 million grant to The Claremont Colleges, will push forward efforts by this group of small, academically-rigorous institutions to create a more diverse faculty for America’s colleges and universities.

61传媒 Students Featured in Santa Cruz Sentinel News Story About ‘Women in Physics’

The Santa Cruz Sentinel quotes Jessica Ng ’15 and Anna Henderson ’15 for a story on the 10th annual Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics.

January 15, 2015

Dialogue Groups: Your invitation to participate!

Change at 61传媒starts with individuals who take part in meaningful discussions about central community challenges. I invite you all to participate in a dialogue group next semester and create the change you wish to see at Scripps!

January 12, 2015

61传媒 Professor Explores Life’s Absurdities in New York Times Commentary

Associate Professor of Philosophy Rivka Weinberg explores “Why Life is Absurd” in a commentary published in The New York Times. In the piece, she writes, “The absurdity of human life poses a challenge to its meaning. Absurdity and meaningfulness don’t go together.”