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Spotlight on Seniors (page 2)
Spotlight on Seniors: Elizabeth Howell-Egan ’22 and Uma Nagarajan-Swenson ’22 Represent Their Class
The senior class co-presidents want to honor the spirit of mutual aid and collective care that has sustained the Class of 2022 through a global pandemic and a roller-coaster return to campus.
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Spotlight on Seniors: Sylvie Alexander ’22 Finds Success Through Seaweed
“The moment I learned about the possibility of climate mitigation through seaweed cultivation, it was like sparks went off,” Alexander says.
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Spotlight on Seniors: Jess Maurice ’22 Advances Understanding of Animal Social Behavior
Jess Maurice ’22 presented her research on the social hierarchies of fish at the Southern California Animal Behavior conference.
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Spotlight on Seniors: Natalie Chen ’22 Advocates for Global Public Health
Natalie Chen ’22, a science, technology, and society major, is currently co-authoring a research paper for the National Institutes of Health.
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Scripps College Celebrates Class of 2021 at 91st Commencement
On May 22, 2021, Scripps College celebrated the Class of 2021 in its 91st Commencement exercises in a digital event watched across the country. Ruth Reese Lane ’92, immigration attorney and Scripps alumna, delivered the keynote address.
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Senior Art and Media Studies Seniors Present Abstract Media in Historic LA Chinatown
The annual senior art exhibition is the capstone of the Scripps College studio art major. Seniors create original works of art, conceptualize an exhibition, install their pieces, draft artist statements and wall texts, and publicize the event as part of their senior theses.
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Spotlight on Seniors: English Major Katie Clelland Writes Her Way to Community
This fall, Katie will take her love of writing and community engagement and head to Chicago for graduate school to study integrated marketing and communications at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism.
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Then and Now: The Class of 2021
At the start of the 2016–17 academic year, we interviewed a few first-year students about why they chose Scripps and what their plans were for their college careers. Now, four years later, we’ve caught up with some of those seniors to see how their plans shaped up, how they’ve grown, and where they’re off to after graduation.
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Senior Spotlights: Selina Ho and Claire Joseph Dance for Justice, Beauty, and Expression
For Joseph, graduation from Scripps will lead her to a master’s program in Irish literature at Trinity College Dublin, in Dublin, Ireland. Ho will begin her post-grad job as a data analyst at the Vera Institute of Justice in April, a nonprofit devoted to criminal justice reform.
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Spotlight on Seniors: Olivia Truesdale ’21’s Quest to Connect Language and Culture
Stepping off the plane at Incheon International Airport in the summer of 2019, foreign languages major Olivia Truesdale had a sense of unreality. Surrounded by the sights and splendor of Seoul, she was at the precipice of her longest and most intense trip abroad: An internship at the US Embassy followed by a semester abroad at Yonsei University.
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