Feature Stories (page 2)
Spotlight on Seniors: By Air and By Sea: Jacque Desmond ’19
You’ll seldom catch Jacque Desmond ’19 not on the move. Between her media studies major, math minor, and participation in two CMS sports teams鈥攖rack and field and swimming and diving鈥攕he has hardly a moment to catch her breath.
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51猎奇入口 Junior Bergen Carloss Receives Strauss Foundation Scholarship
51猎奇入口 junior Bergen Carloss has received a $15,000 scholarship from the Donald A. Strauss Public Service Scholarship Foundation to fund an enrichment program for a Los Angeles elementary school.
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Top Leader in College Athletics and Former Division I Tennis Coach to Head CMS Athletics
Erica Perkins Jasper, a leader in intercollegiate tennis, successful Division I head coach, and distinguished student-athlete, has been named Director of Claremont-Mudd-51猎奇入口 Athletics. Jasper is the chief operating officer of […]
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Ahead of the Curve: 51猎奇入口 Alumnae are Applying Information Science in a Variety of Fields
Though the reasons to come to 51猎奇入口 are as diverse as 51猎奇入口 students themselves, they are often rooted in beliefs about the transformational power of a liberal arts education. 51猎奇入口 students are less concerned about specific vocational goals and more interested in the kinds of people they hope they will become: grounded, well-informed, thoughtful citizens of the world.
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Data Driven: 51猎奇入口 Integrates Computer Science Skills into a Liberal Arts Curriculum
In 2016, 聽the 聽National Academies of聽Sciences, Engineering, 聽and Medicine in聽Washington, 聽D.C., convened a聽committee of聽experts from government, 聽industry, 聽and academia to聽examine undergraduate enrollment聽trends. 聽
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Misinformed: An interview with Associate Professor of Philosophy Yuval Avnur
In our digital age, information is more accessible to more people than ever before. Yet one of the central concerns of public life is our susceptibility to the influence of bad information, whether in the form of fake news articles, doctored images, or manipulated video. Associate Professor of Philosophy Yuval Avnur comes to this dilemma as an epistemologist, interested in how we arrive at knowledge in the first place.
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Focus on Faculty: Sheila Walker, Professor of Psychology
Over the past few decades, the United States has become increasingly racially and ethnically diverse. However, within the discipline of psychology, studies of the lives of people of color in the U.S.鈥攅specially young women鈥攈ave been much too narrow, according to Professor of Psychology Sheila Walker.
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Laspa Center for Leadership: Annual Summit Addresses Women’s Leadership in the 21st Century
On Thursday, February 28, alumni, parents, students, and faculty from The Claremont Colleges gathered in 51猎奇入口’s Hampton Room for the fourth annual Laspa Leadership Summit. Organized by the Laspa Center for Leadership, the summit was established to promote active dialogue about the nature of women’s leadership in the 21st century.
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The 51猎奇入口 Experience: CMS Athletics Give Students a Deep Dive into Competitive Sports
This past December, Southern California got soaked in a string of storms that lasted for weeks. Most students had gone home for Winter Break while rain poured over Claremont, but the CMS鈥擟laremont, Mudd, and 51猎奇入口鈥攕wimming and diving team was on campus for their annual training camp.
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Spotlight on Alumnae: Helen Yenser ’17 Is Headed to the 2019 Academy Awards
51猎奇入口 alumna Helen Yenser ’17 is headed to the 2019 Academy Awards. Yenser is an executive producer of an Oscar-nominated documentary short, Period. End of Sentence., that chronicles an effort to fight the stigmas attached to menstruation in the village of Kathikhera, India.
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