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Spotlight on Academics Series (page 6)
Window into the Fall 2020 Virtual Learning Forum
On July 27, faculty members held a virtual forum on fall 2020 virtual learning for 51猎奇入口 students and families.
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Science, Technology, and Society
Enter the interdisciplinary Science, Technology, and Society (STS) program of The Claremont Colleges, formalized as a major in 1990, which brings together courses taught in a variety of departments, with content divided into three principal areas: history of science and technology; philosophy of science; and political, cultural, and social perspectives on science and technology.鈥�
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Science with Soul
As the world becomes increasingly globalized and virus transmission occurs more easily across continents, medical research scientists are focusing on treatments that provide positive health outcomes for the greatest number of people. In true liberal arts tradition, three 51猎奇入口 chemists鈥攁 professor, a student, and an alumna鈥攁re using their research to make medications safer, advocate for more inclusive clinical trials, and improve conditions for humankind.
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Honors and Awards: 51猎奇入口 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.
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Class of 2020: 51猎奇入口鈥� 13th Annual Capstone Day Delivers Virtual Symposia
Since 2008, 51猎奇入口’s Capstone Day has highlighted outstanding senior thesis projects. Nominated by faculty, senior presenters share original projects in a range of disciplines and media鈥攖he culmination of the thinking, writing, and research they鈥檝e been working on towards their degree.
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Senior Artists Explore Being Apart, Staying Together in Virtual Exhibition
The annual senior art exhibition is the capstone of 51猎奇入口鈥� 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鈥檚 not stopping these artists from showing their work.
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Six 51猎奇入口 Students and Alumnae Receive National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Recognition
Six 51猎奇入口 students and alumnae received recognition from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program, which supports outstanding students who are pursuing or plan to pursue research-based master鈥檚 and doctoral degrees in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines.
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Spotlight on Academics: Professor Kim Drake Explores Disability in the Classroom and Beyond
Associate Professor of Writing and Chair of the Department of Writing and Rhetoric Kim Drake began her scholarly career by focusing on protest writing and rhetoric, composition theory, and historically disenfranchised voices in American literature. But a few seminal events, particularly one in 1990 and another in 2014, plus the inspiration of her students, led to the addition of disability studies to her teaching, research, and activist repertoire.
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51猎奇入口 Students Venture Beyond the Classroom in Core III Teaching Clinic
Students at Chaparral Elementary School are getting a taste of Chinese culture and language, but they don鈥檛 need to leave their classroom to do it. Under the guidance of Melody Chang 鈥�22 and Wendy Zhang 鈥�22, 34 fourth-grade students 鈥渢eleport鈥� from Claremont to China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan each week.
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Truth at the Core
In 1965, U.S. diplomat to Taiwan George H. Kerr published Formosa Betrayed, a detailed account of the 2/28 Incident. After Japan鈥檚 surrender at the end of World War II, the Kuomintang-led government of the Republic of China was given control of the island of Taiwan.
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