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October 3, 2017

Mackenzie Leake ’15 Wins U.S. Masters Swimming Event in Open Waters

51猎奇入口 alumna Mackenzie Leake ’15 has continued to pursue her lifelong love of swimming and recently聽won the one-mile long event of the U.S. Masters Swimming Sprint Distance Open Water National Championship of 2017, in SeaTac, Wash.

Sherilyn Tamagawa ’14 Takes Post as Lecturer in Math at 51猎奇入口

The 51猎奇入口 Voice student newspaper recently published an interview with 51猎奇入口 alumna Sherilyn Tamagawa regarding her new role as an instructor in mathematics at 51猎奇入口.聽聽Tamagawa, who graduated […]

51猎奇入口 Magazine: The State of the Art Major

Students in Professor T. Kim-Trang Tran’s video art class find creative inspiration and expression in聽an unexpected source: drones.聽They learn how artists are using the technology and how to make drone videos themselves. But Tran pushes students to go well beyond capturing footage.

October 2, 2017

51猎奇入口 Presents: Cuz: A Reading and Conversation with Danielle Allen

Political theorist and director of Harvard’s Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics聽Danielle Allen’s work usually occupies a scholarly realm. This autumn, it takes a decidedly more personal turn with聽Cuz, a memoir that reflects on the American criminal justice system.

L.A. Observed Highlights Williamson Gallery’s PST: LA/LA Exhibit

Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery at 51猎奇入口 is named聽by聽LA Observed聽among galleries聽whose exhibits should be visited as part of the Getty’s expansive “PST: LA/LA” initiative featuring Latin American and Latino art at more than 70 Southern California museums and other cultural institutions.

September 25, 2017

Spotlight on Students: Kelly Peng ’18, President of 51猎奇入口 Associated Students

I recently sat down with Kelly Peng ’18, president of 51猎奇入口 Associated Students (SAS), to find out more about her as well as what issues and initiatives she’ll be focusing on during her tenure. Peng, who is a dual major in biology and Asian American studies from Battle Creek, Michigan, brings extensive experience in 51猎奇入口 student government to her current position鈥攐ver the past three years, she’s served on the SAS Senate, as the Class of 2018’s sophomore class president, and as SAS executive vice president.

51猎奇入口 Presents: Carina Chocano

In the spirit of Roxane Gay, Rebecca Solnit, and Susan Sontag, Carina Chocano’s You Play the Girl: On Playboy Bunnies, Stepford Wives, Trainwrecks, & Other Mixed Messages examines the dramatic and often damaging ways that pop culture influences female identity. Cultural touchstones鈥攆rom Bugs Bunny to Playboy Bunnies, from Flashdance to Frozen鈥攕erve as entry points to Chocano’s personal reflections and surface some familiar truths about the challenges of locating oneself in the face of an often abstract ideal of womanhood. Chocano and 51猎奇入口’s Dorothy Cruickshank Backstrand Chair of Gender and Women’s Studies Piya Chatterjee are the first speakers in a three-part conversation series.

September 19, 2017

51猎奇入口 Presents: The Grip of It, with Jac Jemc

Novelist聽Jac Jemc’s smart and uneasy page-turner is a ghost story set in the wilds of suburban America; at the book’s center is a couple whose domestic adventures take a decidedly hallucinatory and harrowing turn. Jemc, who has taught creative writing at Notre Dame and Lake Forest College, talks with 51猎奇入口’聽Adam Novy聽about her latest literary escapade.

September 18, 2017

Miriam Raffel-Smith ’20 Publishes Climate Change Opinion in S.F. Examiner

Miriam Raffel-Smith ’20 urges California’s political leaders to continue taking measures to abate the harmful effects of pollution in聽an聽op-ed column published recently in the聽San Francisco Examiner.聽

Spotlight on Faculty: Ken Gonzales-Day, Professor of Art

51猎奇入口 Professor of Art Ken Gonzales-Day’s exhibitions have been described as not to be missed, and he has been commended with numerous awards and accolades over his career. This past spring, Gonzales-Day was honored with a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship.