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Scripps Presents Returns to Downtown Los Angeles for Summer 2019 Season
To launch the summer 2019 season of Scripps Presents, Scripps College will partner with PEN America and the Music Center to host “The Good Immigrant: An Evening of Storytelling” at Grand Park on Tuesday, June 18, at 6 p.m.
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Spotlight on Seniors: Gillian Holzer’s Mellow Yellow
Vincent Van Gogh’s sunflowers are wilting. In early 2018, news outlets around the world reported on chemical analyses performed by a team of Dutch and Belgian scientist that revealed that the sunflowers in Van Gogh’s famous paintings were degrading, turning from bright yellow to muddy olive green.
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Research Rewarded: Seniors Present Their Theses at Capstone Day
A Scripps tradition that has spanned over a decade, Capstone Day is a chance for graduating seniors to share the theses they have spent the past year (and sometimes more) […]
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In the Media: Cheryl Strayed’s Upcoming Scripps Presents Conversation Makes LAist’s “Best Things to Do” List
LAist highlighted Scripps Presents’ upcoming Cheryl Strayed event as one of the “17 Best Things to Do This Week in Southern California.” Bestselling author Cheryl Strayed will appear in conversation […]
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Tselot Aklilu ’21 Awarded Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship
By Rachel Morrison Sophomore Tselot Aklilu’s interest in community building and social justice began when she was just nine years old, when she moved from her native Ethiopia to Washington, […]
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Class of 2019: Senior Art Exhibition “Anyway” Focuses on Authentic Storytelling
The Senior Art Exhibition is a cornerstone of the studio art major at Scripps College. Each year, the Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery shows artworks by graduating seniors that constitute their thesis projects.
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Spotlight on Seniors: Stephanie Nunez’s Education Comes Full Circle
When Stephanie Nunez ’19 was just a sophomore, she petitioned to go abroad a year earlier than most Scripps students. She had recently completed her Core III course Foreign Language and Culture Teaching Clinic, taught by Professor of French Thierry Boucquey, and was eager to get a jump start on a cross-cultural, language-teaching experience.
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Spotlight on Seniors: From Ocean Depths to Mountain Peaks: Xenia Rangaswami ’19 Focuses on Conservation
By Rachel Morrison In 2002, scientists watched in disbelief as most of the Larsen B Ice Shelf collapsed into the Weddell Sea off of the Antarctic Peninsula. Though a certain […]
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Gabriela Ochoa ’19 Receives Presentation Award at West Coast Biological Sciences Undergraduate Research Conference
Gabriela Ochoa ’19 received the award for best poster presentation in Ecology and Evolution at the 44th Annual West Coast Biological Sciences Undergraduate Research Conference. Ochoa presented her thesis work […]
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Scripps Celebrates Four Decades of Watson Fellows
Since 1976, Scripps alumnae have been traveling the world thanks to the Thomas J. Watson Fellowship program, a competitive, one-year grant for purposeful, independent exploration outside the United States.
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