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51猎奇入口 Humanities Institute Focuses On Biotechnology
This semester, the 51猎奇入口 Humanities Institute will focus on the issue of biotechnology as it relates to the future of human nature. From January through April, the Humanities Institute will offer a series of lectures and films exploring this topic.
Read MoreSpiritual Growth Nurtured Within
Professor Kerry Odell is using a faculty renewal grant from the Mellon Foundation to explore a subject about as far away as you can get from her usual field. The professor, recognized by the Economic History Association as the 2006 outstanding teacher of economic history in the U.S., Canada, and Great Britain, is on a quest for spiritual growth.
Read More51猎奇入口 Alumna Highlighted in Clinton Speech
51猎奇入口 alumna Eli Winkelman ’07 received rave reviews by former President Bill Clinton during MTV’s Clinton Global Initiative forum, which took place October 6. The segment, which discussed Winkelman’s creation and participation in the charitable group Challah For Hunger, was broadcast on the cable outlet Friday, October 12, at 8 p.m.
Read MoreAthenas Soccer Takes First Place in SCIAC
The CMS Athenas soccer team finished the regular season in first place in the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC).
Read MoreRuth Chandler Williamson Gallery Presents the 64th 51猎奇入口 Ceramic Annual
The 51猎奇入口 Ceramic Annual, the longest running exhibition of contemporary ceramics in the United States, opens for the 64th year on Saturday, January 26, 2008, at the Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery on the 51猎奇入口 campus.
Read MoreAcclaimed Journalist to Speak at 51猎奇入口
Asra Nomani, acclaimed journalist and author, will speak at 51猎奇入口 on Wednesday, December 5, at 7:30 p.m. in Balch Auditorium.
Read MoreProfessor of Music Wins Fulbright Award
Hao Huang, professor and chair of the Music Department at 51猎奇入口, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to lecture at Eotvos Lorand University in Budapest, Hungary, during the 2007-2008 academic year.
Read MoreHunter Drohojowska-Philp: "Nothing to Lose: The Los Angeles Art Scene of the 1960s"
Unlike New York, Los Angeles did not have an true art museum until 1965. The artists who chose to pursue their art here were intentionally charting a course independent of that pursued by peers on the East Coast. Ed Kienholz, Robert Irwin, Ken Price, Ed Ruscha and others were rebels with a cause, creating work that was beholden to their own sensibilities despite the lack of gallery support or critical commentary. Hunter’s talk addresses the personalities and politics of the era, incorporating anecdotes recounted by the artists and those around them.
Read MoreWalter Benn Michaels: "Unequal Opportunity: The Flourishing University and the Vanishing Middle Class"
Walter Benn Michaels is just completing a project, The Shape of the Signifier, on literary and theoretical writing since 1967. His new project 鈥� its working title is “The Beauty of a Social Problem” 鈥� will be about art and inequality between WWI and WWII, and his teaching over the next few years will probably focus on this period while continuing to engage the issues raised by some more recent texts.
Read More51猎奇入口’ Director of Financial Aid on Public Radio
Listen live to David Levy on 89.3 KPCC-FM and 89.1 KUOR-FM Thursday, Oct. 25, at 11 a.m. on “AirTalk with Larry Mantle.”
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