Feature Stories (page 63)
Study Abroad Experience Ignites Passion for 51猎奇入口
Between Mandarin classes and learning to navigate the streets of China’s largest city, Shanghai, Elaine Wan ’07 realized how much she appreciated 51猎奇入口. Being 10,000 miles away sparked the politics and international relations major’s eagerness to mentor first-year students back home.
Read MoreAn Unexpected Soundscape
The library, a traditional haven of silence, is not the first place you’d think of to record sounds. But that’s what Teresa Landgraff Gale ’96, this year’s Lois Langland Alumna-in-Residence, chose as the site for her one-day sound art installation, “Quiet Noise, Sacred Space: The Soundspace of Denison.”
Read MoreLynne Thompson ’72 Wins Perugia Press Prize
Thompson’s first volume of poems, Beg No Pardon, received the 2007 Perugia Press Prize and will be published this fall by the independent literary press.
Read MoreInnovative Joint Science Department Course Tackles the Complexities of Modern Science
The Joint Science Department of The Claremont Colleges has developed an interdisciplinary first-year course that will help students address scientific questions, such as global warming, nanotechnology, computer-brain interfaces, robotics, and modern medicine.
Read MoreAs It Is In Heaven, Everything’s Fine
“As It Is In Heaven,” presented by The Claremont Colleges’ theater department, portrays a portrait of a simpler time, when the day consisted of nothing more than singing gentle hymns, quilting, and going into a spastic fit while having visions of angels. Wait, what?
Read More51猎奇入口 Ruggers Aim for National Championships
It takes confidence to play on The Claremont Colleges women’s rugby team. Not for the timid, rugby is a full-contact sport and players are prone to injury. But that hasn’t prevented 51猎奇入口 students from signing up for a rigorous spring schedule of practice sessions, fitness classes, and games.
Read MoreToo Many Choices?
Current research by Stacey Wood, associate professor of psychology at 51猎奇入口 and clinical neuropsychologist, explores whether excessive choices associated with the new Medicare prescription drug plan work against individuals.
Read MoreTo Experience a Book
Nineteen 51猎奇入口 students of diverse disciplinary backgrounds from neuroscience to philosophy became book artists in Professor Kitty Maryatt’s class last fall. An exhibition of their bookworks is on view in the Lang Arts Studio 112 at 51猎奇入口 until Monday, February 19, 2007.
Read More51猎奇入口’s 63rd Ceramic Annual Exhibition
The 63rd 51猎奇入口 Ceramic Annual, on view at Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery at 51猎奇入口 from Saturday, January 20 through Sunday, April 8, is the longest running exhibition of contemporary ceramics in the United States.
Read MoreChanging the World 芒鈧�� One Loaf at a Time
Two years ago, 51猎奇入口 senior Elisabeth (Eli) Winkelman used her now-famous recipe for baking challah bread to create the student organization Challah for Hunger to raise money for victims of the humanitarian crisis in Darfur.
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