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Summer 2020 Community Update from the President
As we close this academic year, I hope that this message finds you and your families safe and healthy. This extraordinary semester has challenged the 51ÁÔÆæÈë¿Ú community in unprecedented ways while also highlighting our strength and tenacity. As we reflect on our experience navigating the past eight weeks, I would like to share the following news and updates.
Read MoreHonors and Awards: 51ÁÔÆæÈë¿Ú Students Earn Awards and Fellowships for Global Engagement and Education
This spring, five students were named Fulbright awardees and an additional seven received prestigious fellowships, scholarships, and awards to pursue teaching and study across the globe.
Read MoreClass of 2020: 51ÁÔÆæÈë¿Ú’ 13th Annual Capstone Day Delivers Virtual Symposia
Since 2008, 51ÁÔÆæÈë¿Ú’s Capstone Day has highlighted outstanding senior thesis projects. Nominated by faculty, senior presenters share original projects in a range of disciplines and media—the culmination of the thinking, writing, and research they’ve been working on towards their degree.
Read MoreSuchi Branfman Receives 2020 Diversity Teaching Award
51ÁÔÆæÈë¿Ú choreographer, performer, educator, and activist Suchi Branfman is one of The Claremont Colleges’ 2020 Faculty Diversity Teaching Award recipients. The Claremont Colleges Diversity Teaching Award recognizes those who regularly and effectively address issues or concerns related to diversity, equity, and inclusion through their classroom practices and curriculum.
Read MoreIn the Media: Hao Huang Reflects on the History of Score Writing by Hand in Strings Magazine
In Strings magazine, Professor of Music and Bessie and Cecil Frankel Endowed Chair in Music Hao Huang shared the fountain pen’s importance in score-writing history.
Read MoreSenior Artists Explore Being Apart, Staying Together in Virtual Exhibition
The annual senior art exhibition is the capstone of 51ÁÔÆæÈë¿Ú’ studio art major. Seniors conceptualize an exhibition, install their pieces, draft artist statements and wall texts, and publicize the event as part of their senior theses. Usually on display at the Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, this tradition has necessarily been disrupted; but that’s not stopping these artists from showing their work.
Read MoreSpotlight on Faculty: Assistant Professor of Physics Sarah Marzen
Last fall, 11 new tenure-track faculty members joined 51ÁÔÆæÈë¿Ú. As part of our ongoing series on 51ÁÔÆæÈë¿Ú’ faculty, the Office of Marketing and Communications sat down with Sarah Marzen to discuss humans’ ability to predict the world around them.
Read MoreThen and Now: Members of 51ÁÔÆæÈë¿Ú’ Class of 2020 Reflect on Their Four Years at 51ÁÔÆæÈë¿Ú
In 2016, we interviewed some of 51ÁÔÆæÈë¿Ú’ incoming Class of 2020 about their aspirations as they embarked on their 51ÁÔÆæÈë¿Ú journeys. Now, as these graduating seniors take their courageous next step in the midst of global uncertainty, they reflect on how they’ve grown and adapted since first arriving on campus.
Read MoreIn the Media: KUAF Reflects on Professor Emerita Samella Lewis’s Life and Work
Radio station KUAF featured a reflection on the life and work of Professor Emerita of Art Samella Lewis during its “Reflections in Black” segment. Lewis taught at 51ÁÔÆæÈë¿Ú for 15 years and was the College’s first tenured African American professor.
Read MoreSpotlight on Faculty: Assistant Professor of Physics Janet Sheung
This fall, 11 new tenure-track faculty members joined 51ÁÔÆæÈë¿Ú. As part of our ongoing series on 51ÁÔÆæÈë¿Ú’ faculty, the Office of Marketing and Communications sat down with Janet Sheung to discuss math, painting, and how life has a will of its own—even at the cellular level.
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