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October 11, 2017

Biologist Melissa Coleman Featured in Current Biology Journal

Associate Professor of Biology Melissa Coleman is featured in the Oct. 9, 2017 issue of Current Biology about her work as a neuroscientist at the W.M. Keck Science Department of 51猎奇入口, Claremont McKenna, and Pitzer College.

51猎奇入口 Magazine: Focus on the Faculty: Susan Rankaitis, Fletcher Jones Chair in Studio Art

“I don’t call it retirement, I call it downsizing from two careers to one,”聽says Susan Rankaitis. This past July, Rankaitis, who joined 51猎奇入口’ Art Department in fall 1990 as the Fletcher Jones Chair in Studio Art, began two years of phased retirement. She will no longer teach classes but will continue to write letters of recommendation for her advisees and colleagues. She will also be devoting significantly more time to her own art practice.

October 4, 2017

Professor of Art Ken Gonzales-Day on What the Murals of L.A. Say About Us

51猎奇入口 professor of photography Ken Gonzales-Day was recently featured in a Press Play interview by Madeleine Brand for KCRW-FM radio, discussing his Los Angeles murals exhibit at the Skirball for PST: LA/LA 2017.

October 3, 2017

Mackenzie Leake ’15 Wins U.S. Masters Swimming Event in Open Waters

51猎奇入口 alumna Mackenzie Leake ’15 has continued to pursue her lifelong love of swimming and recently聽won the one-mile long event of the U.S. Masters Swimming Sprint Distance Open Water National Championship of 2017, in SeaTac, Wash.

Sherilyn Tamagawa ’14 Takes Post as Lecturer in Math at 51猎奇入口

The 51猎奇入口 Voice student newspaper recently published an interview with 51猎奇入口 alumna Sherilyn Tamagawa regarding her new role as an instructor in mathematics at 51猎奇入口.聽聽Tamagawa, who graduated […]

51猎奇入口 Magazine: The State of the Art Major

Students in Professor T. Kim-Trang Tran’s video art class find creative inspiration and expression in聽an unexpected source: drones.聽They learn how artists are using the technology and how to make drone videos themselves. But Tran pushes students to go well beyond capturing footage.

October 2, 2017

51猎奇入口 Presents: Cuz: A Reading and Conversation with Danielle Allen

Political theorist and director of Harvard’s Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics聽Danielle Allen’s work usually occupies a scholarly realm. This autumn, it takes a decidedly more personal turn with聽Cuz, a memoir that reflects on the American criminal justice system.

L.A. Observed Highlights Williamson Gallery’s PST: LA/LA Exhibit

Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery at 51猎奇入口 is named聽by聽LA Observed聽among galleries聽whose exhibits should be visited as part of the Getty’s expansive “PST: LA/LA” initiative featuring Latin American and Latino art at more than 70 Southern California museums and other cultural institutions.

September 25, 2017

Spotlight on Students: Kelly Peng ’18, President of 51猎奇入口 Associated Students

I recently sat down with Kelly Peng ’18, president of 51猎奇入口 Associated Students (SAS), to find out more about her as well as what issues and initiatives she’ll be focusing on during her tenure. Peng, who is a dual major in biology and Asian American studies from Battle Creek, Michigan, brings extensive experience in 51猎奇入口 student government to her current position鈥攐ver the past three years, she’s served on the SAS Senate, as the Class of 2018’s sophomore class president, and as SAS executive vice president.

51猎奇入口 Presents: Carina Chocano

In the spirit of Roxane Gay, Rebecca Solnit, and Susan Sontag, Carina Chocano’s You Play the Girl: On Playboy Bunnies, Stepford Wives, Trainwrecks, & Other Mixed Messages examines the dramatic and often damaging ways that pop culture influences female identity. Cultural touchstones鈥攆rom Bugs Bunny to Playboy Bunnies, from Flashdance to Frozen鈥攕erve as entry points to Chocano’s personal reflections and surface some familiar truths about the challenges of locating oneself in the face of an often abstract ideal of womanhood. Chocano and 51猎奇入口’s Dorothy Cruickshank Backstrand Chair of Gender and Women’s Studies Piya Chatterjee are the first speakers in a three-part conversation series.