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March 12, 2008

Street Art

Ken Gonzales-Day, Associate Professor of Art and Art Department Chair at Scripps College, has designed a mural for the L.A. County Administration Building. This administration building, the biggest art installation ever completed by the Civic Arts Program, houses the County departments with the largest concentration of social services.

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January 14, 2008

Spiritual Growth Nurtured Within

Professor Kerry Odell is using a faculty renewal grant from the Mellon Foundation to explore a subject about as far away as you can get from her usual field. The professor, recognized by the Economic History Association as the 2006 outstanding teacher of economic history in the U.S., Canada, and Great Britain, is on a quest for spiritual growth.

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November 12, 2007

Professor of Music Wins Fulbright Award

Hao Huang, professor and chair of the Music Department at Scripps College, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to lecture at Eotvos Lorand University in Budapest, Hungary, during the 2007-2008 academic year.

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September 21, 2007

Professor Michael Lamkin Awarded Great Medal of Honor

Dr. Michael Deane Lamkin, the Bessie and Cecil Frankel Chair in Music at Scripps College, received the Great Medal of Honor (Grosse Ehrenzeichen) from the Government of Burgenland at the Opening Convocation of the 32nd Classical Music Festival on August 3.

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May 22, 2007

Scripps College Receives $10 Million Pledge Toward Faculty Initiatives

An anonymous donor has made a $10 million gift pledge to Scripps College, President Nancy Y. Bekavac announced last week. Pledged on behalf of the Board of Trustees, it will be the largest gift from a living donor in the College’s history.

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February 15, 2007

A Conversation with Samella Lewis and Suzanne Muchnic

Samella Lewis, artist, author, and professor emerita, Scripps College, and Suzanne Muchnic ’62, journalist, Los Angeles Times will join Scripps College President Nancy Y. Beckavac in an event to honor the foundation of the Samella Lewis Collection of Contemporary Art on Tuesday, February 27.

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February 9, 2007

Romantic Piano Masterworks: A Faculty Recital Featuring Hao Huang

The Scripps College Department of Music presents a faculty recital with pianist and Professor of music Hao Huang on Sunday, February 18, at 3 p.m. in the Garrison Theater, Scripps College Performing Arts Center.

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February 2, 2007

Dance Company Casebolt and Smith Present Popped!

Popped!, an evening of dance developed and performed by Liz Casebolt and Joel Smith of Los Angeles Contemporary Dance Company will be held Friday February 16, and Saturday February 17, at 7 p.m. in the Richardson Dance Studio, Scripps College.

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January 29, 2007

Spring Semester Tuesday Noon Lectures

The Spring Semester Tuesday Noon Academy, a series of lunchtime lectures at Scripps College, features distinguished alumnae, professors, students, and guests. Lectures begin at 12 p.m. in the Hampton Room of the Malott Commons, Scripps College.

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December 13, 2006

Kenan Professor John Milton Of Claremont Colleges Joint Science Department Receives National Science Foundation Grant

Dr. John G. Milton, M.D., Ph. D, Fellow, Royal College of Physicians of Canada, Fellow, American Physical Society and the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Computational Neuroscience at the Claremont Colleges, has received a $319,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to support his research on the motor skills associated with stick balancing.

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