Feature Stories (page 34)
Sumita Pahwa: What I Did This Summer
Sumita Pahwa, Scripps’ new member of the politics and international relations department, joins the College by way of Cairo, where she lived with her husband and four-year-old for nearly three years researching the Muslim Brotherhood before moving to Claremont.
Read More61´«Ã½ Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery Interns Gain Knowledge in the World of Art
With hundreds of competing applicants from college campuses across the country, landing a paid art internship at the Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery is a coup, one the gallery’s six summer interns plan to make the most of the experience.
Read MoreWater Sustainability at Scripps
61´«Ã½ was looking to conserve natural resources long before drought warning signs popped up around California. Now those plans (and others) are coming to fruition this summer – and they’ll keep the campus beautiful at a fraction of the cost.
Read MoreBuilding a Better Marketplace
Jenny Morrill ’10 co-founded online furnishings retailer Move Loot to connect people with a more sustainable lifestyle – and it’s taking the Bay Area by storm.
Read More61´«Ã½ Alumna Heightening Awareness on Food Allergies
Some look at life as a glass half empty. Dana Shaker ’14 sees a glass overflowing with opportunities. An accomplished athlete and student, Shaker has multiple food allergies; when she arrived at 61´«Ã½ in 2010 as a first-year student, she crafted an allergy-free fare movement that informed her research into people suffering from dietary restrictions.
Read MoreWho Watches the Watchers?
Rachel Fidler’s senior thesis documents those who create “living histories” for Holocaust memorials in Los Angeles and Nassau County, New York.
Read More61´«Ã½and the Global Citizen
61´«Ã½ gave me the gift of seeing the world. And from that experience, I learned that all the world’s children are our children, and we cannot say we are busy.
Read MoreHealth Conscious
“My 61´«Ã½ education gave me two crucial assets that have driven my life since graduation,” says Lindsay Seligman ’06. “The ability to question what is and envision what could be.”
Read MoreThe Right Note
Micah Schub has a bachelor of music from Juilliard and has played with orchestras around the world. But now he’s set his sights on something different – medicine – and the 61´«Ã½Postbac Program is helping him achieve this dream.
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