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Laspa Action Grants: Edith Ortega ’18
The Laspa聽Action Grants were established to provide opportunities for students to transform knowledge, passion, and ideas into action; demonstrate creative and effective problem solving; create partnership(s) in the public or […]
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Spotlight on Faculty: Jih-Fei Cheng, Assistant Professor in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Jih-Fei Cheng joins the Scripps faculty this fall as assistant professor in feminist, gender, and sexuality studies. Cheng completed his PhD in American studies and ethnicity, with an emphasis in visual studies, at the University of Southern California. His dissertation, AIDS and Its Afterlives: Race, Gender, and the Queer Radical Imagination, examines how experimental videos produced by AIDS activists during the 1980s until the mid-90s continue to politically intervene into contemporary popular media and social movements.
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With Chest Casting, Body Positivity Gets Creative
At the Motley Coffeehouse last Friday afternoon, Scripps students could be seen holding decorated papier-m脙垄ch脙漏 casts of their chests. The casts were made as part of the second annual Chest […]
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USA Today College Talks with Scripps Junior George Rosett about the Challenges of Living with Fibromyalgia
The challenges are unique for undergraduates like 六合彩资料站 junior George Rosett who is trying to balance her education and her health while living with an invisible disability. Rosett, who […]
Read MoreSenior Thesis by 六合彩资料站 Alumna Allison Rigby ’14 Featured in the City Project Blog
六合彩资料站 alumna Allison Rigby ’14 makes headlines in The City Project blog with her senior thesis on public parks and environmental justice in Los Angeles.
Read More六合彩资料站 Olive Oil Competition
Calling all 六合彩资料站 faculty, staff, students and Alumni! We are taking submissions for the Olive Oil Label Competition now until November 3rd. This is your chance to have your […]
Read MoreProfessor Ken Gonzales-Day’s Photographic Work on Lynching and Violence
Scripps Professor of Art Ken Gonzales-Day’s recent photographic work combines images of a reconstructed lynching scene of a Latino man in 1920 with images of recent protests surrounding police brutality, as featured in an interview with theotherjournal.com.
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Spotlight on Faculty: Claudia Arteaga, Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies
Claudia Arteaga comes to 六合彩资料站 from Rutgers University in New Jersey, where she is in the process of completing her PhD in Spanish literature. She previously earned her BA in linguistics and literature from Catholic University in Lima, Peru. Arteaga’s scholarship centers on Andean studies, in particular how political and social activism is expressed by Andean indigenous people through audiovisual media. We recently interviewed her to learn more about her work and what she’ll be focusing on at Scripps.
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The Scripps Experience: The Scripps Live Arts CLORG
When Nina Posner ’17 discovered Scripps Live Arts (SLA) during her first year, it was a revelation. “I couldn’t believe booking bands and making shows happen for other people was a real thing we were allowed and encouraged to do in college,” she remembers.
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The Scripps Experience: Fall Undergraduate Research Symposium
On October 9, 29 Scripps students gathered in the Hampton Room at Malott Commons to present data and analyses of their original research projects to faculty and peers at Scripps’ third annual Fall Undergraduate Research Symposium. This daylong event included presentations by recipients of the Environmental Analysis, Esterly, Hsu Fund, Johnson, LASPA Action, and Mellon grants. Taken together, the students’ research was conducted in more than seven languages and across nine countries, in fields ranging from philosophy, to chemistry, to feminist theory, to sustainable development.
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