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August 23, 2012

Scripps College Named a “Best College” and “Best Classroom Experience” by The Princeton Review

Scripps College is one of the country’s “best colleges” according to The Princeton Review in its book, The Best 377 Colleges, 2013 Edition. Scripps received high ratings for its academics, quality of life, selectivity, and financial aid.

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August 20, 2012

Preserving Clean Water Sources

She didn’t know it when her internship started, but the six weeks Lisa Beem ’14 spent in South America alongside biologists and engineers in Ecuador’s Ministry of the Environment would be a watershed moment in her life.

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A Woman With a Vision

Scripps College’s Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery is pleased to present “African American Visions: Selections from the Samella Lewis Collections,” which pairs for the first time works from both the Samella Lewis Contemporary Art Collection and works from the artist’s personal collection.

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August 8, 2012

Door Restore

Gretchen Allen ’14 painstakingly restores one of Scripps College’s outdoor treasures.

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August 7, 2012

Senior Profile: Catherine Parker Sweatt

Catherine Parker Sweatt ’12 fell in love with 16th century French philosopher Michel de Montaigne as she explored ethics in her philosophy and French studies dual major thesis.

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August 6, 2012

Senior Profile: Antoinette Myers

Inspired by the Scripps College faculty, Antoinette Myers completed a thesis on queer Xicana women in the media—and figured out a bit about herself along the way.

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August 1, 2012

Two Lives, Two Cultures

The Office of Off-Campus Study encourages Scripps College students to explore and integrate with the local culture during their time abroad. Few, however, take it as far as Alexa Kopelman ’13.

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July 30, 2012

The Williamson Gallery Receives NEA Art Works Grant to Support Conservation of 16th-Century Dragon Tapestry

National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Chairman Rocco Landesman announced on April 25 that the Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery of Scripps College is one of 788 not-for-profit national, regional, state, and local organizations nationwide to receive an NEA Art Works grant. The Williamson Gallery is recommended for a $10,000 grant to treat a Chinese textile altar panel of a dragon, which dates back to the late sixteenth century.

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July 19, 2012

The Williamson Gallery Celebrates 20th Year of Getty Multicultural Internships

For the twentieth consecutive year, the Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery of Scripps College has welcomed three interns funded by the Getty Foundation through its Multicultural Undergraduate Internship Program. The Williamson has participated in the program since the founding of the Gallery in 1993, the same year the program was launched. This summer the Getty is sponsoring 115 positions at 73 organizations throughout Los Angeles County.

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July 18, 2012

Scripps College Students Named to Spring 2012 Dean’s List

The following Scripps College students were named to the dean’s list for the spring 2012 semester at Scripps College in Claremont, California. The dean’s list recognizes students who have achieved a grade point average of at least 11 (A-) in four, letter-graded courses in one semester.

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