Feature Stories (page 55)
Brown is the New Green
How does Lola Trafecanty, °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±¼Ç¼×ÊÁÏ’s director of grounds, keep Alumnae Field lush and green during the cold winter months? She doesn’t – and it’s all in the name of sustainability.
Read MoreThe Art of Networking
°ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±¼Ç¼×ÊÁÏ’s Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery breaks new ground by utilizing social media to help program one of its upcoming exhibits.
Read MoreGlobetrotters
Ariel Bloomer ’12 heads a network of students as they report on their study abroad experiences for the new °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±¼Ç¼×ÊÁÏ Off-Campus Study blog.
Read MoreThe Calling
How does a studio art major end up in Kabul? Elizabeth Baker ’06 talks about the personal journey she took leading her from °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±¼Ç¼×ÊÁÏ to outreach in war-torn Afghanistan.
Read MoreGabrielle Giffords’ Message
Gabrielle is a role model, not just for our students, but for all women and for all Americans. She did not shy away from her calling to be a leader. With grace and determination, she has become an outstanding and courageous public servant. Gabrielle Giffords’s career shows that she is fiercely independent — framing her positions on issues thoughtfully and humanely, and, in the words of our founder, Ellen Browning Scripps, “with confidence, courage and hope.”
Read MoreThe Milton Marathon, a One-Day Reading of “Paradise Lost”
Perhaps a little-known fact outside of early modern literature scholarship circles, Milton’s epic poem Paradise Lost can be read in just one day. On December 2, a relatively mild and sunny day for this time of year in Southern California, Assistant Professors of English Literature Colleen Rosenfeld (Pomona) and Jacqueline Wernimont (Scripps) organized a one-day reading of the poem on the lawn north of Honnold-Mudd Library.
Read MoreA Global Affair
Professor of International Relations David Andrews heads the European Union Center — one of only two in California — so °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±¼Ç¼×ÊÁÏ students may have opportunity to work with another important consortium: the European Union.
Read MoreStudents United!
Collaboration between Scripps Associated Students, staff, and trustees leads to the development of °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±¼Ç¼×ÊÁÏ’s first Student Union.
Read MoreA Very Merry Sorrow
A haunting new collaboration between °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±¼Ç¼×ÊÁÏ students and German professor Roswitha Burwick results in an impressive anthology of modern-day fairy tales.
Read MoreNavigating the Scripps Journey
Melissa Mesinas ’12 draws on her own experience as a first-generation college student to help others in their first year at °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±¼Ç¼×ÊÁÏ.
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