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June 16, 2015

Professor Winston Ou: A Modern-day Renaissance Man

The captivating beauty of mathematical theory entices Professor Winston Ou to spend countless hours searching for answers. “Working so hard has its own pleasure,” says Ou, an associate professor of mathematics. “With hard, hard, hard work, one might make some tiny progress in one’s understanding. That uncertain, tiny bit of progress has always been enough to lure me onwards.”

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June 11, 2015

Natalya St. Clair ’06 Sees the Artistry in Numbers

As the innovator of several avant-garde TED-Ed videos and illustrator of the book The Art of Mental Calculation, Natalya St. Clair acknowledges the complex intersection of mathematics and art. Now a graphic designer and math teacher, she challenges her colleagues and students to recognize the ways in which the fields effortlessly mingle.

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June 9, 2015

Entrepreneur’s Passion for Design is Rooted in her Scripps Education

Anne Michaelsen Yahn ’85 was recently featured in a Los Angeles Times article for the continued success of her Newport Beach-based interior design firm. As owner and principal of Anne Michaelsen Design, Inc. for over 30 years, Yahn credits her achievements in part to her classical training and art history education at ÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏÕ¾.

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June 2, 2015

CMS Sports Roundup – spring 2015

The Claremont-Mudd-Scripps (CMS) Athenas spring teams has wrapped up and continued into the NCAA championships. Cheers go out to two Scripps athletes, one a recent graduate, and one who just completed her first year.

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June 1, 2015

Nancy Macko and the Real Bee

Professor of Art Nancy Macko has spent the last two decades delving into gender symbolism offered by honeybees’ female-governed and highly successful social structures. Her current work focuses on the political and ecological realities of bee survival and was recently covered by KCET Artbound.

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May 28, 2015

Where MacArthur ‘Genius’ Fellows Went to College | Cecilia Conrad

Cecilia Conrad, Vice President of the MacArthur Fellows Program and former Dean of Faculty for ÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏÕ¾, explores the educational backgrounds of more than 900 MacArthur “Genius” Fellows in an article for the Huffington Post. She concludes that private liberal arts and women’s colleges provide educational environments most conducive for creative minds to develop through practices such as lower faculty-student ratios, discussion vs. lecture-based pedagogy, the high value placed on teaching skills, and the residential college atmosphere.

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May 22, 2015

Class of 2015 Stats

Career Planning & Resources conducts an annual survey on the days before graduation to learn more about what our seniors are planning for life after graduation. ÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏÕ¾ is pleased to share the following graduate profile for the Class of 2015. This is aggregate data from 230 seniors, a 97.87% response rate.

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May 21, 2015

Artful Achievements: An Interview with Professor Mary MacNaughton

Mary Davis MacNaughton ’70 has come full circle. The professor of art history and director of the Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery began her formal studies as a student at ÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏÕ¾ in the 1960s. Then she went on to earn a PhD in Art History at Columbia University, worked at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and traveled extensively for research. Yet, MacNaughton ultimately returned to her roots at her alma mater to teach, guide, and mentor Scripps students in the visual arts.

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May 20, 2015

Pat Fisher-Smith Welsh ’51 featured in Los Angeles Times

Best-selling author and gardening guru Pat Fisher-Smith Welsh ’51 promotes moving away from over-watered lawns in Southern California to drought-tolerant landscapes. Welsh is quoted in the Los Angeles Times’ front-page section of the May 17, 2015, Sunday edition.

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May 11, 2015

Milestones

A lot can happen in four years. Take a journey through time with the ÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏÕ¾ Class of 2015.

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