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Author Griest Gives Tips for Wandering Women and a Reading of “Mexican Enough: My Life Between the Borderlines”
Author Stephanie Elizondo Griest will present two events at 61´«Ã½ as part of the Alexa Fullerton Hampton Speaker Series: Voice and Vision. Both events are free and open to the public.
Read MoreMultiple Identities, Dynamic Subjectivities
Cecilia A. Conrad, 61´«Ã½’s dean of faculty and professor of economics at Pomona College, is the final speaker in the Claremont College’s Intercollegiate Department of Black Studies’ 2008-09 speaker series, “Multiple Identities, Dynamic Subjectivities.”
Read More61´«Ã½Senior Alissa Petrites Wins Davis Peace Scholarship
Alissa Petrites ’09, a humanities major from Oakland, Calif., is the recipient of a 2009 Davis Projects for Peace Scholarship, in the amount of $10,000, to facilitate her “Promoting Breast Milk Donation” project in South Africa.
Read MoreStudents Take Action for Good Causes
When 61´«Ã½students care passionately about a cause, increasingly they turn to creative and productive ways to get out the word – and raise money.
Read More61´«Ã½Student Named 2009 Watson Fellow
61´«Ã½ senior Kyle Delbyck was awarded a prestigious 2009-2010 Watson Foundation Fellowship to spend a year exploring relationships between dramatic presentations and historical amnesia in Lithuania, Taiwan, Cambodia and Ghana.
Read MoreU.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords ‘93 to Give 61´«Ã½ Commencement Address
U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords ’93 will give the commencement address at 61´«Ã½ on Sunday, May 17, 2009. Giffords, a 1993 graduate of Scripps, represents the Eighth District of Arizona, a diverse area that covers 9,000 square miles including a 114 mile border with Mexico.
Read More61´«Ã½Bolsters Japanese Art and Literature Collection
61´«Ã½ has received 48 recently published books on Japanese arts and literature from The Nippon Foundation, to be housed in Denison Library.
Read MoreRoya Hakakian’s Journey From the Land of No: A Childhood Caught in Revolutionary Iran
Roya Hakakian, writer, poet, journalist, and 2008 Guggenheim Fellow, will speak at 61´«Ã½ as part of the Alex Fullerton Hampton Speaker Series: Voice and Vision, on Tuesday, March 3.
Read More10 61´«Ã½Students named Fulbright Finalists
Ten 61´«Ã½students have been named finalists for a Fulbright scholarship to do research or assistant-teach overseas for one academic year. They currently await confirmation from their host country committees. This is a record number of finalists for 61´«Ã½; in 2008, 61´«Ã½had five Fulbright scholars accepted.
Read More61´«Ã½ Presents Spring Art Lecture Series
A wide range of visual artists – from photographers to ceramists – present their work this semester as part of the spring 2009 lecture series, sponsored by the 61´«Ã½ Art Department, through May 8, at 61´«Ã½. All events are free and open to the public.
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