Feature Stories (page 62)
Innovative Joint Science Department Course Tackles the Complexities of Modern Science
The Joint Science Department of The Claremont Colleges has developed an interdisciplinary first-year course that will help students address scientific questions, such as global warming, nanotechnology, computer-brain interfaces, robotics, and modern medicine.
Read MoreAs It Is In Heaven, Everything’s Fine
“As It Is In Heaven,” presented by The Claremont Colleges’ theater department, portrays a portrait of a simpler time, when the day consisted of nothing more than singing gentle hymns, quilting, and going into a spastic fit while having visions of angels. Wait, what?
Read MoreScripps Ruggers Aim for National Championships
It takes confidence to play on The Claremont Colleges women’s rugby team. Not for the timid, rugby is a full-contact sport and players are prone to injury. But that hasn’t prevented Scripps students from signing up for a rigorous spring schedule of practice sessions, fitness classes, and games.
Read MoreToo Many Choices?
Current research by Stacey Wood, associate professor of psychology at Scripps College and clinical neuropsychologist, explores whether excessive choices associated with the new Medicare prescription drug plan work against individuals.
Read MoreTo Experience a Book
Nineteen Scripps students of diverse disciplinary backgrounds from neuroscience to philosophy became book artists in Professor Kitty Maryatt’s class last fall. An exhibition of their bookworks is on view in the Lang Arts Studio 112 at Scripps College until Monday, February 19, 2007.
Read MoreScripps College’s 63rd Ceramic Annual Exhibition
The 63rd Scripps College Ceramic Annual, on view at Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery at Scripps College from Saturday, January 20 through Sunday, April 8, is the longest running exhibition of contemporary ceramics in the United States.
Read MoreChanging the World – One Loaf at a Time
Two years ago, Scripps College senior Elisabeth (Eli) Winkelman used her now-famous recipe for baking challah bread to create the student organization Challah for Hunger to raise money for victims of the humanitarian crisis in Darfur.
Read MoreScripps Undergraduates Garner Rave Reviews at Recent International Scientific Conference
Sharon Torigoe ’07 and Ivy McDaniel ’08 received recognition for their research presentations at the 28th Annual Asilomar Chromatin and Chromosomes Conference.
Read MoreEnsnaring the Moment: Thoughts on the Intersection of Photography and Poetry
So often in writing about photography, I have described a work as poetic. This talk was born out of challenging myself to figure out what, after all, I mean by that. Is there more to it than innocuous generalization?
Read MoreJoint Science Neuroscientist Awarded Two NSF Grants
John Milton, M.D., Ph.D, Fellow, Royal College of Physicians of Canada, Fellow, American Physical Society, and the William R. Kenan Professor of Computational Neuroscience at The Claremont Colleges, has been awarded two National Science Foundation (NSF) research awards this fall.
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