Faculty
Minxin Pei, Pritzker '72 Professor of Government, George R. Roberts Fellow and Director of the Keck Center for International and Strategic Studies, has been awarded a $100,000 MacArthur Foundation Grant for his project entitled: The Geopolitical and Humanitarian Consequences of a Regime Transition in China in 2020-2030.
Assistant Professor of Mathematics Deanna Needell
Poet Robert Frost
Assistant professor of history, Tamara Venit-Shelton, recently published A Squatter's Republic: Land and the Politics of Monopoly in California, 1850-1900 (University of California Press, 2013).
President Obama’s proposed changes on Friday to the federal surveillance programs means that, for the average citizen, everyday life “continues as usual,” says Jack Pitney, who was a guest on KCAL’s morning news broadcast on Saturday, Jan. 18. Pitney, the Roy P. Crocker Professor of American Politics, was interviewed by KCAL anchor Suzie Suh, a day after Obama’s announced changes toward some aspects of the National Security Agency’s collection of phone records.
- Read more about Professor Jack Pitney weighs in on President Obama’s proposed NSA changes, on KCAL 9
Dear Campus Community,
Associate Professor of Biology Jennifer Armstrong received a $450,000 three-year grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to research chromosome structure and gene expression. Armstrong teaches at the W.M. Keck Science Department of Pitzer College, Claremont McKenna College and Scripps College.
Students working closely with professors is a cherished hallmark of CMC, and a significant draw for incoming students. Opportunities to collaborate, present, and even publish are experiences you’d expect at the graduate level, not as an undergrad.