John J. Pitney Jr. has been named the Crocker Professor of American Politics. Regarded among students and colleagues alike as a caring, dynamic professor whose classroom leadership flexes an effective blend of substance…

Convocation Welcomes New Year The 59th Annual Convocation ceremonies for the 2005-06 academic year welcomed new and returning students, staff, and faculty to campus with special remarks from President Pamela Gann and Ro…

David Sadava, the Pritzker Family Foundation Professor of Biology in the Joint Science Department, will be the featured speaker for the inaugural 2005-06 Athenaeum dinner/lecture at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 7. The eve…

Author and poet Jamaica Kincaid is scheduled to speak at Bridges Auditorium at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 1. The event, An Evening with Jamaica Kincaid, is co-sponsored by The Claremont Colleges. Kincaid's visit will inc…

Literature major Maggie Fromm '06 has been awarded third prize in the 2005 Jane Austen Society of North America Essay Contest. Her winning submission, Liminal Letters: Writing Between the Spaces in Emma, was prompted, s…

  The 59th Annual Convocation ceremonies for the 2005-06 academic year will commence at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 30 in McKenna Auditorium. Tuesday's program will include the welcome of new and returning students by Pres…

A group of about 250 CMCers including new students, orientation sponsors, and Resident Assistants, will be planting Cottonwood cutoffs along the river of the nearby San Gabriel Canyon, in the Angeles National Forest, fr…

Associate professor of government Fred Lynch, currently researching a book on the sociological impact of aging Baby Boomers, will host a theme panel discussion on Mobilizing the Baby Boomers: Generational Issues in Poli…

Claremont McKenna College has been ranked 10th in the nation among liberal arts colleges in the 2006 U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges rankings, tied with Davidson College. Increasing from 13th place the previous y…

Jay Conger joined the faculty last semester as the inaugural Kravis Research Professor in Leadership Studies. Endowed by Trustee Henry R. Kravis '67, the new Kravis Chair at CMC provides interaction with students within…