Kate Parrish ’21

Kate Parrish ’21 developed a work ethic and made lasting friendships at CMC

For Kate Parrish ’21, playing Division 3 basketball at CMC provided the best of both worlds.

“I was treated as a student first while also getting to play the sport I love at a competitive level!” said Parrish, a Psychology & Media Studies major, who played for the Athenas since her freshman year. “It was an incredibly rewarding experience.”

Allie Gould ’20

Neuroscience major Allie Gould ’20 fell in love with philosophy and won a best paper award

Allie Gould ’20 could hardly imagine becoming passionate about philosophy when she started at Claremont McKenna College as a neuroscience major. Four years later, in spring 2020, a paper that she submitted to a philosophy conference in Denver won the best paper award and was published in an international undergraduate philosophy journal, Stance.

April 23, 2022

In his Cutting-Edge Leadership column for Psychology Today, Prof. Ronald E. Riggio discussed grit and its relationship to leadership. “For leaders, it’s not enough to just possess grit,” he said, “they need to also develop the ability to inspire and motivate others.”

April 21, 2022

Eleanor Clift quoted Prof. Jack Pitney in a The Daily Beast op-ed about how the Democrats are finally learning to fight the GOP’s fire with fire: “They’re clearly latching on to libertarian rhetoric trying to limit the power of the government. That may win them more support than some invocation of ‘woke’ values.”

April 21, 2022

Prof. Jack Pitney was quoted in a Washington Examiner story about the Democrats’ mask mandate dilemma. Even if the Justice Department wins its appeal of a federal court’s decision to strike down the CDC’s public transportation mask mandate, the fact that the TSA stopped enforcing it will make it difficult to reverse. “Reimposing a mandate after it has been lifted is likely to be unpopular,” he said. “People dislike uncertainty and inconsistency.”