Opening Convocation ceremonies for the 2008-09 academic year will be held at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 2 at McKenna Auditorium, with a welcome from President Pamela Gann and remarks from featured speaker Gary Hamburg, t…

The Kravis Leadership Institute and the Dean of Students Office will host its second annual leader development retreat for all incoming sophomores on Wednesday, Aug. 27 through Saturday, Aug. 30. Called the Sophomore Le…

Claremont McKenna College has been listed as the 11th best liberal arts college in the nation by U.S. News & World Report, tying with Vassar College. The magazine released its annual rankings today. In addition, CMC ran…

Incoming freshman Maira Mercado has been named one of four students nationwide to receive a $100,000 scholarship by Ronald McDonald House Charities/Hispanic American Commitment to Education Resources.To apply for the sc…

Graduate students and CMC alumni Gabe Rocklin and Jennie Miller, both Class of 2007, have been awarded National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowships, enabling them to receive three years of support for…

All CMC faculty, staff and families are invited to attend the College's third annual CMC family picnic from 12:30 to 4:30 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 22 in the quad area north of Collins Hall. Lunch will feature grilled chicke…

To commemorate the opening of the XXIX Olympiad in China this weekend, the Claremont McKenna College community is gathering in Beijing to celebrate the major event of the summer. CMC alumni, families, and friends attend…

The new 2009 edition of The Princeton Review's Best 368 Colleges ranks Claremont McKenna College fourth among the top schools with the happiest students, with Clemson University finishing first and Brown and Princeton u…

The Claremont Port Side, a progressive magazine at CMC, has received the 2008 Breakthrough Publication of the Year award from Campus Progress, the youth division of the Center for American Progress. The award is one of…

The CMC Alumni Association has organized a record number of new student parties across the globe, beginning Saturday, July 26 and continuing throughout the month of August, in locations such as Boston, Chicago, Los Ange…