Theresa Delgadillo, professor of English and Chicanx/e and Latinx/e Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will examine the work of three contemporary photographers—Tony Gleaton, Wendy Philips, and Louis Carlos…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/borderlands-and-diaspora-contemporary-photographys-engagements-race-americasUniquely positioned in higher education, CMC’s Kravis Department of Integrated Sciences brings together three critical areas of science that will affect humans for centuries to come. As a small sample, this program will…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/health-brain-and-planet-kdis-actionIn 2021, the non-partisan, independent California Citizens Redistricting Commission drew lines for the state’s 52 congressional districts. On November 4, 2025, Californians will vote on Proposition 50, which would repla…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/case-preserving-californias-commission-drawn-congressional-districtsWhile necessity can be the mother of invention, in the case of avid cyclist Josephine Aspromonte ’26, necessity was the mother of re-invention.Frustrated with having to alter high-performance bikes, whose standardized f…
What Keith Nightingale ’65 remembers most when he speaks for “the originals,” the soldiers who participated in the Normandy invasion on D-Day, June 6, 1944, is the reflections of those who survived, made it to the top o…
Claremont McKenna College students recently had the opportunity to converse with one of the California legislators they learn about in Government classes, the Honorable Willie L. Brown, Jr.Before speaking at the Athenae…
Columnist, public intellectual, host of Conversations with Bill Kristol, and founding director of Defending Democracy Together, an organization dedicated to defending America's liberal democratic norms, principles, and…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/evening-william-kristolSeptember 26, 2025, will forever mark a distinct trajectory-altering moment—a Quantum Moment—in Claremont McKenna College’s historic timeline:Life and learning before the Robert Day Sciences Center. Life and learning af…
Desirée J. Garcia, professor of film and Latino studies at Dartmouth College, tells the story of the makeup artists and hairstylists who entered the Hollywood studios in the late 1960s, the moment when the Equal Employm…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/dark-face-untold-history-race-makeup-and-hollywoodIn the mid-1950s, Barry Goldwater and Martin Luther King Jr. emerged as the leaders of two diametrically opposed freedom movements that changed the course of American history—and still divide American politics. King mob…
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