News Releases (page 54)
Mellon Grant Supports Center for Teaching and Learning
The Claremont University Consortium has received a $1.5 million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to establish a new Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) to help faculty members […]
Read MoreNEW Hall Featured At Greenbuild Conference
Scripps’ NEW Hall was selected for inclusion in the world’s largest conference and expo dedicated to green building, Greenbuild, in the Educational Tours Program. The 2016 expo takes place in October in downtown Los Angeles from October 5–7.
Read MorePresident Tiedens Introduced to Community through In Person Events
ÎåÔÂÌìÊÓÆµ President Lara Tiedens, the College’s ninth president who began her term in August, answered questions from the media and extends the same opportunity to ÎåÔÂÌìÊÓÆµcommunity members as she […]
Read MoreErica Tyron ’92 Keeps College Radio Station KSPC 88.7 FM Running
Erica Tyron ’92 shepherds the operations of KSPC 88.7 FM radio station, as well as decades of students who have worked there to learn the business and serve as DJs “spinning” cutting-edge music in the roughly 35-mile radius where the station is heard. As Director of College Radio at the station, Tyron’s leadership and passion for her work and the radio station’s role in the community is chronicled in a recent article in the Claremont Courier.
Read MoreÎåÔÂÌìÊÓÆµ Tops World College Ranking List
ÎåÔÂÌìÊÓÆµ is ranked among the Top 10% of colleges in the 2016-2017 world college rankings, in the inaugural Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education College Ranking (WSJ/THE). The U.K.-based Times Higher Education magazine evaluated colleges around the globe on 15 metrics grouped into four “pillars” that include “Outcomes,” “Resources,” “Engagement,” and “Environment.”
Read MoreCatherine Collinson ’85 Receives Hero Award
The Women’s Institute for a Secure Retirement (WISER) honored Catherine Collinson ‘85, president of the nonprofit foundation Transamerica Institute and Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies, with a Hero Award at the organization’s 20th anniversary event in Washington, D.C.
Read MoreOn Stage: Japanese Theater Prints and Costumes
Tsukioka Kogyo, One Hundred Noh Plays: Shakkyo, 1922, Japanese wood block print, 15 in. x 10 1/8 in., Aoki Endowment, ÎåÔÂÌìÊÓÆµ, Claremont, CA Kabuki, Noh and Bunraku are types […]
Read More“A Sense of Place”: ÎåÔÂÌìÊÓÆµ 73rd Ceramic Annual
“In the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti,” wrote Melville. It is an individual experience of a place, only to be reached by traveling inward. The master ceramicists […]
Read MoreÎåÔÂÌìÊÓÆµ Announces Fall 2016 Humanities Institute Public Events
September 2016 marks the fifteen-year anniversary of President George W. Bush’s declaration that the United States was now engaged in a global “war on terror.” The fall 2016 ÎåÔÂÌìÊÓÆµ […]
Read MoreÎåÔÂÌìÊÓÆµ Offers Scholarship for High School Students in Upstate New York
In 2013, the family of Tia Palermo, a longtime resident of Livingston County, established a scholarship at ÎåÔÂÌìÊÓÆµ in her memory. Through her dedication and hard work, Tia supported […]
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