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For many women, the Trump administration’s policy priorities have ushered in undulating waves of panic, frustration, and outrage. For the feminist contributors to Samhita Mukhopadhyay and Kate Harding’s anthology Nasty Women, putting pen to page is one of the most important ways to mobilize. The editors, along with Carina Chocano, one of their Los Angeles­â€“based authors, visit to talk about writing as activism with Scripps Writing Program Director and Associate Professor Kimberly Drake.

Scripps Magazine: Art Forms

Alison Saar ’78 Weight, at first glance, appears to be a young girl playing on a swing, until one realizes that the child is stripped bare. Her swing is attached […]

Scripps Is a Top College for Helping Students Put Passions to Work

ÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏÕ¾ is one of a half dozen liberal arts colleges highlighted in an article on Study International’s website for nurturing a student’s entrepreneurial spirit through exploratory learning.

Scripps Magazine: Revolution & Ritual: The Photographs of Sara Castrejón, Graciela Iturbide, and Tatiana Parcero

“If there is an occupation suitable for women, it is photography.” So declared the Mexico City newspaper El Mundo in 1899. It went on: “They have the aptitude and an extraordinary manual dexterity and, above all, they serve better than a man to make portraits of women, arranging their headdresses and getting them in positions with a confidence and a thoroughness that would be impossible for persons of the opposite sex.”

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 ÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏÕ¾, Claremont McKenna, and Pitzer College.

Scripps 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,” says Susan Rankaitis. This past July, Rankaitis, who joined Scripps’ 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.

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

ÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏÕ¾ 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.

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

ÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏÕ¾ alumna Mackenzie Leake ’15 has continued to pursue her lifelong love of swimming and recently 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 Scripps

The Scripps Voice student newspaper recently published an interview with ÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏÕ¾ alumna Sherilyn Tamagawa regarding her new role as an instructor in mathematics at ÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏÕ¾.   Tamagawa, who graduated […]

Scripps Magazine: The State of the Art Major

Students in Professor T. Kim-Trang Tran’s video art class find creative inspiration and expression in an unexpected source: drones. 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.