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News Releases (page 76)


May 16, 2013

°ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±¼Ç¼×ÊÁÏ Student Selected For National Leadership Program

°ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±¼Ç¼×ÊÁÏ student Mia Cooledge ’13 has been selected as one of the nation’s top rising young leaders in the sustainable energy sector by national non-profit organization Focus the Nation.

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°ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±¼Ç¼×ÊÁÏ Receives Gift to Establish Tia Palermo Scholarship

President Lori Bettison-Varga today announced a gift from Jess Ravich and his daughters – Zoe (Scripps ’12), Rae, Ede and Ava – in honor of his wife, Tia Palermo. The Tia Palermo Scholarship will be awarded annually to help an incoming student with financial need.

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May 14, 2013

°ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±¼Ç¼×ÊÁÏ’s Hannah Shoenhard ’14 Places Second on “Jeopardy!” College Championship

°ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±¼Ç¼×ÊÁÏ’s Hannah Shoenhard ’14 won $10,000 and came in second place in the semifinals of the college championship edition of “Jeopardy!” She made her second, and latest, appearance on the TV trivia show May 13.

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May 10, 2013

°ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±¼Ç¼×ÊÁÏ’s Hannah Shoenhard ’14 Appears May 13 on “Jeopardy!” College Championship

°ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±¼Ç¼×ÊÁÏ’s Hannah Shoenhard ’14 has won $10,000 and a spot in the semifinals of the college championship edition of “Jeopardy!” She appears again on the trivia TV show May 13.

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Strauss Foundation Awards Ei Phyu Theint ’14, °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±¼Ç¼×ÊÁÏ $10,000 Public Service Scholarship to Carry out Youth Leadership Program in Myanmar

The Donald A. Strauss Public Service Scholarship Foundation, established as a memorial to the late Don Strauss of Newport Beach and now designed to award $10,000 scholarships to as many as 15 California college juniors annually, recently announced that among the foundation’s new group of recipients is Ei Phyu Theint, a student at °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±¼Ç¼×ÊÁÏ.

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May 8, 2013

°ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±¼Ç¼×ÊÁÏ’s Hannah Shoenhard ’14 Named 2013 Goldwater Scholar

°ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±¼Ç¼×ÊÁÏ’s Hannah Shoenhard ’14 was recently awarded a scholarship from the Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation. She is one of 272 undergraduate sophomores and juniors to receive a Goldwater scholarship.

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May 7, 2013

Two °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±¼Ç¼×ÊÁÏ Students Awarded Strauss Public Service Foundation Grants To Help Youth in Myanmar and in Orange County

This year, two °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±¼Ç¼×ÊÁÏ juniors have been awarded two separate Donald A. Strauss Public Service Scholarship Foundation grants that will take economics major Ei Phyu Theint ’14 to Myanmar this summer to work with ethnic youth leaders and will support American studies major Natasha Magness’s ’14 efforts of helping gay, bisexual, transgender and lesbian evangelical youth in Orange County.

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May 3, 2013

°ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±¼Ç¼×ÊÁÏ Students Chosen for Competitive U.S. State Department Scholarships

°ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±¼Ç¼×ÊÁÏ’s Isabella Hendry ’14 and Stacy Wheeler ’13 are among the approximately 610 undergraduate and graduate students to receive a U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarship to study Arabic this summer. Hendry will visit Morocco and Wheeler will travel to Oman.

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April 30, 2013

°ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±¼Ç¼×ÊÁÏ Student Taia Sean Wu ’15 Selected for Davis Projects for Peace

°ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±¼Ç¼×ÊÁÏ sophomore Taia Sean Wu ’15 was recently chosen for a prestigious Davis Projects for Peace grant so that she could work this summer in the Asian country of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste where she will create a new music program at a youth center.

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April 25, 2013

°ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±¼Ç¼×ÊÁÏ Presents Annual “Senior Art Show,” Showcasing Original Art by Students

“Re/Fractions,” the annual senior art show highlighting the final thesis projects of graduating studio art majors, will be on display from May 3 to May 19 at °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±¼Ç¼×ÊÁÏ’s Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery. An opening reception is scheduled at 6 p.m. on May 3 in Bixby Courtyard. The exhibition and reception are free and open to the public.

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