The 2013-14 academic year officially kicked off with Opening Convocation on September 3. Highlighting the event was President Hiram E. Chodosh’s keynote address, “No Constraints.” The talk focused on internal constrai…

The Nobel laureate, in his CMC regalia, at Commencement 2006 In his expressive, stirring tribute to the late Irish poet Seamus Heaney for yesterday’s Los Angeles Times, scholar of literature Robert Faggen calls Heaney a…

Poetry, for August Kleinzahler, belongs to “the realm of fire,” and this fall the critically-acclaimed poet and essayist brings his elemental vision of modern poetics to Claremont McKenna College with two courses on the…

Orientations Orientation is designed to introduce students and their families to the College's traditions, academic programs, and unique culture as well as to help students meet new people and learn more about the colle…

  Pictured in the smog chamber where the study will be done: Kopano Ramsay (SCR '14) and CMC's Alexandra Fox '14. “It’s so important to me to incorporate students into independent research projects and enable them to pr…

Ronald Riggio Are online gaming, porn, and lack of education destroying the future of adolescent boys and young men? Ronald Riggio, the Henry R. Kravis Professor of Leadership and Organizational Psychology, blogged on t…

David Doss '75Qatar-based network Al Jazeera recently announced David Doss '75 has been appointed Senior Vice President, Al Jazeera America (AJAM). Doss, who will be based at Al Jazeera America’s New York City headquart…

  The end of summer may be in sight, but there’s still plenty of time for vacation reading, starting with the following selection of new and recent releases by members of CMC’s alumni community:   Twitter: Social Commun…

From left, Kelsey Heflin, Kayla Nonn ’15, and Qian Zhang (RDS ’13) joined CMC's Gary Gilbert, along with faculty and students from other Claremont Colleges, Penn State University, Trinity College, and the University of…

Instead of taking time off between semesters, CMC students Sheila Panez ’15 and Jaanhvi Vaidya ’14 have been spending their summer researching foot mechanics and neurological connections. On July 18, they and other stud…