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Scripps’ new elms prepare for spring growth; podium and diploma table to be created from original trees’ wood
After two seasons, Scripps’ 18 paired Princeton elms, planted last summer to replace the dying 70-year-old trees on Elm Tree Lawn, are thriving in their new location, according to Lola Trafecanty, director of grounds.
Read MoreSpeedtraps
Your imagination is your most precious resource, what you’ll most need in the years to come. It’s your resourcefulness, your versatility, what you can do. It’s what the world will reward, as a matter of fact, more than a grade or a GPA.
Read MoreBroadway and America: Reflections of a Cultural History
An exhibit on musical theater, “Broadway and America: Reflections of a Cultural History,” at Scripps’ Denison Library, is on view now through February 28, 2009.
Read MoreScripps College Receives Getty Grant for “Clay Reconsidered”
Scripps College has been selected by the Getty Foundation to receive one of 15 grants totaling almost $2.8 million. The Getty will fund a celebration of the post-World War II Los Angeles art scene, “Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980,” to be spotlighted in an unprecedented series of parallel exhibitions at museums throughout Southern California, beginning in the fall of 2011.
Read More“In The Works”: A Concert of Student Danceworks
“In The Works…”, the annual fall concert by students of the departments of dance at Scripps and Pomona Colleges, will be held Thursday, December 4, and Friday, December 5, at 8:00 p.m. and Saturday, December 6 at 2:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. in the Pendleton Dance Studio, Pomona College.
Read MoreErin Feenstra: “The CSI Effect”
Scripps alumna Erin Feenstra, a forensic chemist with the Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) North Central Laboratory in Chicago, will speak about her career experiences on November 18 as part of the “Celebrating Women in Science” speaker series.
Read MoreFestival Del Cuatro Concert to Honor Women
The 3rd annual Festival del Cuatro concert will honor Puerto Rican women, as well as all women who struggle in supporting a cause, this Saturday, November 15, at 6:30 p.m. in Garrison Theater in the Scripps College Performing Arts Center.
Read MorePlace in Time: Contemporary Landscape
A new consciousness of habitat is explored in the new exhibition Place in Time: Contemporary Landscape at Scripps College’s Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, running from November 2-December 14, 2008.
Read MoreEscape: Former Polygamous Sect Member Speaks at Scripps College
Author Carolyn Jessop, former member of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, will present her book, “Escape,” at a lecture in Balch Auditorium of Scripps College on November 11.
Read MoreScripps Receives $5.7 Million Commitment for Financial Aid
An anonymous donor has committed to providing $1.9 million a year for the next three years in support of the successful James E. Scripps Scholars Program, Interim President Fritz Weis announced today.
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