By Susan Price Emily Bassett ’18 joked that her first-year track coach forced her to try the hammer throw. At her Seattle high school, Bassett had been a sprinter until, slowed by a hamstring injury, she competed in dis…
https://www.cmc.edu/magazine/winter-2018/throwing-distanceBy Thomas Rozwadowski Margaret Loncki ’18 knew she got away with one. It was her freshman year at the 2015 SCIAC Championships in Beaumont. Successfully sinking a three- foot putt would secure a one-stroke win over a Po…
https://www.cmc.edu/magazine/winter-2018/determination-driveBy Chris Watts Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Athenas brought home a clutch of national titles, including three team national championships in one year—a first in CMS athletics history. The winning streak began last November wi…
https://www.cmc.edu/magazine/winter-2018/call-it-year-of-athenaBy Susan Price Steven L. Eggert ’82 P’15 fondly recalls the spirited discussions held at the former president’s house on Columbia Avenue, the predecessor of Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum. He remembers joining his fellow R…
https://www.cmc.edu/magazine/winter-2018/heart-of-cmcHilary Appel, Podlich Family Professor of Government and George R. Roberts Fellow, has been appointed Director of the Keck Center for International and Strategic Studies. As a teacher-scholar in the Government departmen…
John M. Isaacson, chairman of the executive search firm Isaacson, Miller, delivered the keynote address to the Board of Trustees on October 4. Isaacson’s passion for higher education and the liberal arts comes from both…
https://www.cmc.edu/magazine/winter-2018/fundamental-purposeBy Thomas Rozwadowski Trustee Akshata Murty ’02 chuckles when she thinks about a quote from her father. When he was building Infosys Limited, a global software consulting company headquartered in Bangalore, India, N.R.…
https://www.cmc.edu/magazine/winter-2018/data-drivenBy Thomas Rozwadowski The two most popular courses at Claremont McKenna College are, as they have been for as long as many can remember, Economics 50 and Government 20. The third? Computer Science 5. The rise of compute…
https://www.cmc.edu/magazine/winter-2018/inspired-to-innovateDecision points: Piercarlo Valdesolo started the Moral Emotions and Trust Lab at CMC so psychology undergraduates could conduct research and publish papers with professors, a hallmark of CMC. The back-and-forth with lab…
