News Releases


October 22, 2019

Scripps College to Co-Sponsor New Community Film Festival “La Placita”

The Scripps College Department of Spanish, Latin American, and Caribbean Literatures and Cultures will co-sponsor the first “La Placita” Community Film Festival with Uncommon Good.

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October 15, 2019

Scripps College Faculty to Commemorate Los Angeles Chinatown Massacre with Multimedia Performances in Downtown Los Angeles and Claremont

Scripps College Professor of Music and Bessie and Cecil Frankel Chair in Music Hao Huang will curate two multimedia performances commemorating the Los Angeles Chinatown Massacre of 1871.

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October 7, 2019

Scripps College Department of Dance to Showcase Work, Highlighting Themes of Activism and Healing

The Scripps College Department of Dance will showcase work at Garrison Theater this fall.

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September 5, 2019

Scripps College Applicants from Upstate New York Eligible for Tia Palermo Scholarship

Scripps College applicants from upstate New York who apply for financial aid are eligible for the Tia Palermo Scholarship.

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September 4, 2019

Sarah Budischak Receives National Science Foundation Grant to Study “Superspreaders” and Infectious Diseases

W.M. Keck Science Department Assistant Professor of Biology Sarah Budischak received a National Science Foundation grant from the Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases program to study how disease-carrying individuals can affect the health of populations and landscapes.

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August 15, 2019

Scripps College Announces 2019–20 Humanities Institute Season, Focused on Humane Responses to Natural and Man-Made Disasters

Scripps College’s Humanities Institute has announced its slate of events for the 2019–20 academic year, with a focus on creating more humane responses to natural and man-made disasters.

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July 1, 2019

Food for Thought: Scripps Food Recovery Network Connects Sustainability to Social Justice

Nearly 40 percent of America’s food supply ends up in the garbage. In just one year, 133 billion pounds of food are tossed into landfills, increasing methane production and costing the nation $162 billion.

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June 25, 2019

The Water Flows, the Rice Grows: Professor of Music Hao Huang Studies Traditional Environmental Practices in Asia

“For over a thousand years, the cycle of rice-growing in Bali was managed through water temples and organized in watershed districts, each self-governed by associations of farmers who shared the use of irrigation water for their rice fields.”

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June 20, 2019

Playwright Megh Gwinn ’19 Discusses Her Hollywood Fringe Festival Debut

The Los Angeles Female Playwrights Initiative spoke to Megh Gwinn ’19 about her solo show, Catharsis, her Scripps senior thesis project that she’s performing at this year’s Hollywood Fringe Festival.

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