Tickets will go on sale on Wednesday, March 3 to students of The Claremont Colleges to see stand-up comedian and actor Russell Peters at Bridges Auditorium. Peters, named by Forbes magazine as one of 2009's top-10 earni…

Scholars Mark Edward Lewis and Walter Scheidel, both professors at Stanford University, will visit the Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum on Wednesday, March 3 to discuss, "Rome and China: New Frontiers in Imperial History." T…

CLAREMONT, CA (Feb. 24, 2010)Claremont McKenna and Scripps colleges announced today a $5 million gift from the Sidney J. Weinberg, Jr. Foundation to create the Weinberg Family Dean of Science Endowment Fund for the Join…

Historian, writer, and lecturer Adam Michnik, author of Letters From Prison and Other Essays and founder and editor-in-chief of Gazeta Wyborcza, the largest daily newspaper in Poland, will visit the Marian Miner Cook At…

Mark Blitz, the Fletcher Jones Professor of Political Philosophy at Claremont McKenna College, and the author of Duty Bound: Responsibility and American Public Life, recently authored a book review for the American neoc…

Enhancing open spaces, clarifying gateways to campus, and unifying the entire campus are all outcomes addressed in Claremont McKenna College's proposed campus Master Plan. The plan, unanimously approved by the College's…

It was a busy year of "heavy lifting" for Wei-Chin Hwang, associate professor of psychology. Last August, Hwang was the recipient of two awards, one from the American Psychological Association (APA) Minority Fellowship…

Claremont McKenna College's department of history is sponsoring a two-day academic conference focused on the incorporation of Christianity by local areas in Korea, China, Japan, and Taiwan. "Negotiating the Global with…

CMC recently welcomed author and poet Sapphire to the Athenaeum to speak about her experience as a writer, as well as her novel Push, which was recently made into an Oscar-nominated feature film named for the story's ma…

Robert von Hallberg, an expert on comparative poetry and poetics and the Helen A. Regenstein Professor in English Language and Literature at the University of Chicago, will speak at the Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum on Tu…