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News Releases (page 67)


December 8, 2014

Professor Lara Deeb Honored with British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize in Middle Eastern Studies

51ÁÔÆæÈë¿Ú Professor of Anthropology Lara Deeb’s book Leisurely Islam: Negotiating Morality and Geography in Shi’ite South Beirut, is the 2014 recipient of the British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize in Middle Eastern Studies from the British Society for Middle East Studies. The prize, awarded for the best English language first-edition published scholarly work on the Middle East, has been presented since 1998.

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December 4, 2014

Inland Valley Daily Bulletin Features Core III Class

Beau Yarbrough, higher education reporter for the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, features students in Professor Thierry Boucquey’s Core III course in this December 3 news story. Yarbrough observed Karen Chan ’17 & Rachel Qi ’17 teach Chinese to a fourth-grade class at Chaparral Elementary School as part of their coursework in Boucquey’s Core III class.

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December 3, 2014

The Familiar and the Indefinable in Clay: The 71st 51ÁÔÆæÈë¿Ú Ceramic Annual

The 51ÁÔÆæÈë¿Ú Ceramic Annual, the longest continuous exhibition of contemporary ceramics in the United States, will open for its 71st year on Jan. 24 and will continue through April 5.

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November 26, 2014

51ÁÔÆæÈë¿Ú and Pomona Dance present “In The Works…” A Concert of Student Danceworks

“In The Works…” is the annual fall concert by students of the departments of dance at 51ÁÔÆæÈë¿Ú and Pomona Colleges. The concert will take place Dec. 4, 5 and 6 at 8 p.m. and also on Dec. 6 at 2 p.m. in the Pendleton Dance Center, Pomona College.

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October 20, 2014

51ÁÔÆæÈë¿Ú President Lori Bettison-Varga Honored With Alumni Award

51ÁÔÆæÈë¿Ú President Lori Bettison-Varga on Saturday received a Distinguished Alumni Award from her alma mater, the University of California, Santa Barbara, at its inaugural Women in Leadership event.

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October 13, 2014

51ÁÔÆæÈë¿Ú Shares $1.5 Million Mellon Grant to Promote Digital Humanities

51ÁÔÆæÈë¿Ú is one of five undergraduate colleges of the Claremont University Consortium to share a $1.5 million Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant to promote digital humanities.

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Anonymous Gift Lays the Foundation for New 51ÁÔÆæÈë¿Ú Residence Hall

51ÁÔÆæÈë¿Ú has received a $10 million donation from an anonymous donor to support the construction of its tenth residence hall.

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October 7, 2014

Nine-Point Perspective: 51ÁÔÆæÈë¿Ú Faculty Exhibition

With works in the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Smithsonian Institution; exhibitions in Tokyo, London and Paris; pieces at […]

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September 24, 2014

The Responsibility to Protect

The European Union Center of California invites you to explore the moral and ethical boundaries around protecting people in a two-day conference honoring war hero Jan Karski.

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September 12, 2014

51ÁÔÆæÈë¿Ú Interrogates the Sound of Silence

Is silence the absence of sound? Is it a refusal to speak – or an inability to respond? What are the politics of silence? How is silence enjoyed, mandated, or inflicted? How are silence and gender related? This fall, the 51ÁÔÆæÈë¿Ú Humanities Institute explores the theory and practice of silence: voluntary and coerced, solitary and communal, literal and metaphoric.

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