Lisa Cody, associate professor of history and former department chair, has been awarded the 2005 Best First Book Prize by the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians for Birthing the Nation: Sex, Science, and the Conce…

The CMC Family Picnic will take place on Friday, Aug. 18, from 12:30 to 5 p.m. on Pritzlaff Field. The event is open to all faculty, staff and their guests, featuring old-fashioned hot dog and hamburger fare, as well as…

Susan Elaine Murphy, associate professor of psychology and associate director of the Kravis Leadership Institute, will present a workshop in South Africa in August, based on her recent book, Power Mentoring: How Success…

Students enrolled in the spring semester of CMC's Washington Program enjoyed an informal pizza dinner with Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Wash.) in his Capitol Hill office recently. The students were able to hear McDermott's per…

Professor John Roth, the Edward J. Sexton Professor of Philosophy and director of the Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights, is focusing his summer research on a number of Holocaust studies p…

Susanne Mahoney Filback, associate dean and director of career services, has been elected the executive chair of the Board for the Consortium of Liberal Arts Schools and Independent Colleges. CLASIC is a professional or…

Deepak Shimkhada , assistant professor of philosophy and religious studies, was one of several presenters for the 2006 annual Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast Conference, hosted June 17 at Washington State University…

Associate professor of economics Manfred Keil, who will serve as the new chair of the economics department for the 2006-07 academic year, will attend a July 11-13 retreat in Los Angeles on behalf of the Posse Foundation…

It's been said that the Pacific Ocean has no memory, but that won't be the case for CMC and Scripps College alumni who elect to board an expedition ship that will ply the waters of Baja, California, this January.The ful…

By Nick Owchar '90Nick Owchar is Deputy Book Editor of the Los Angeles Times and serves on the CMC magazine Editorial Board. A World War II veteran once sent me a memoir of his experiences as a wartime aviator, packaged…