News Releases (page 105)
Multiple Identities, Dynamic Subjectivities
Cecilia A. Conrad, Scripps College’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 MoreScripps Senior 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 MoreScripps Student Named 2009 Watson Fellow
Scripps College 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 Scripps College Commencement Address
U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords ’93 will give the commencement address at Scripps College 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 MoreScripps Bolsters Japanese Art and Literature Collection
Scripps College 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 Scripps College as part of the Alex Fullerton Hampton Speaker Series: Voice and Vision, on Tuesday, March 3.
Read More10 Scripps Students named Fulbright Finalists
Ten Scripps students 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 Scripps College; in 2008, Scripps had five Fulbright scholars accepted.
Read MoreScripps College 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 Scripps College Art Department, through May 8, at Scripps College. All events are free and open to the public.
Read MoreClaudia Stevens Performs “Blue Lias, or The Fish Lizard’s Whore”
Claudia Stevens, playwright and performer, will perform “Blue Lias, or The Fish Lizard’s Whore,” as part of Scripps College’s Alexa Fullerton Hampton Speaker Series on Thursday, March 5, at 7:30 p.m.
Read MoreAll Aboard the Overground Railroad to Africa
Dana Dakin ’64, founder of WomensTrust, Inc. and Lois Langland Alumna-in-Residence, will lecture as part of the Tuesday Noon Academy lecture series on February 23.
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