News Releases (page 106)
Author Griest Gives Tips for Wandering Women and a Reading of “Mexican Enough: My Life Between the Borderlines”
Author Stephanie Elizondo Griest will present two events at 51ÁÔÆæÈë¿Ú as part of the Alexa Fullerton Hampton Speaker Series: Voice and Vision. Both events are free and open to the public.
Read MoreMultiple Identities, Dynamic Subjectivities
Cecilia A. Conrad, 51ÁÔÆæÈë¿Ú’s dean of faculty and professor of economics at Pomona College, is the final speaker in the Claremont College’s Intercollegiate Department of Black Studies’ 2008-09 speaker series, “Multiple Identities, Dynamic Subjectivities.”
Read More51ÁÔÆæÈë¿Ú Senior Alissa Petrites Wins Davis Peace Scholarship
Alissa Petrites ’09, a humanities major from Oakland, Calif., is the recipient of a 2009 Davis Projects for Peace Scholarship, in the amount of $10,000, to facilitate her “Promoting Breast Milk Donation” project in South Africa.
Read More51ÁÔÆæÈë¿Ú Student Named 2009 Watson Fellow
51ÁÔÆæÈë¿Ú senior Kyle Delbyck was awarded a prestigious 2009-2010 Watson Foundation Fellowship to spend a year exploring relationships between dramatic presentations and historical amnesia in Lithuania, Taiwan, Cambodia and Ghana.
Read MoreU.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords ‘93 to Give 51ÁÔÆæÈë¿Ú Commencement Address
U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords ’93 will give the commencement address at 51ÁÔÆæÈë¿Ú on Sunday, May 17, 2009. Giffords, a 1993 graduate of 51ÁÔÆæÈë¿Ú, represents the Eighth District of Arizona, a diverse area that covers 9,000 square miles including a 114 mile border with Mexico.
Read More51ÁÔÆæÈë¿Ú Bolsters Japanese Art and Literature Collection
51ÁÔÆæÈë¿Ú has received 48 recently published books on Japanese arts and literature from The Nippon Foundation, to be housed in Denison Library.
Read MoreRoya Hakakian’s Journey From the Land of No: A Childhood Caught in Revolutionary Iran
Roya Hakakian, writer, poet, journalist, and 2008 Guggenheim Fellow, will speak at 51ÁÔÆæÈë¿Ú as part of the Alex Fullerton Hampton Speaker Series: Voice and Vision, on Tuesday, March 3.
Read More10 51ÁÔÆæÈë¿Ú Students named Fulbright Finalists
Ten 51ÁÔÆæÈë¿Ú students have been named finalists for a Fulbright scholarship to do research or assistant-teach overseas for one academic year. They currently await confirmation from their host country committees. This is a record number of finalists for 51ÁÔÆæÈë¿Ú; in 2008, 51ÁÔÆæÈë¿Ú had five Fulbright scholars accepted.
Read More51ÁÔÆæÈë¿Ú Presents Spring Art Lecture Series
A wide range of visual artists – from photographers to ceramists – present their work this semester as part of the spring 2009 lecture series, sponsored by the 51ÁÔÆæÈë¿Ú Art Department, through May 8, at 51ÁÔÆæÈë¿Ú. All events are free and open to the public.
Read MoreClaudia Stevens Performs “Blue Lias, or The Fish Lizard’s Whore”
Claudia Stevens, playwright and performer, will perform “Blue Lias, or The Fish Lizard’s Whore,” as part of 51ÁÔÆæÈë¿Ú’s Alexa Fullerton Hampton Speaker Series on Thursday, March 5, at 7:30 p.m.
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