Israeli journalist Amir Tibon found himself on October 7, 2023, sheltering with his wife and two young daughters in their home, while armed Hamas terrorists surrounded them and fired bullets in their living room. In his…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/gates-gaza-personal-testimony-october-7Please join the Center for Writing & Public Discourse for a celebration of the 2024 Appel Family Writing Scholars and Joel A. Appel '87 P '20. The Appel Fellowship provides first-year students funding to support purpose…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/cwpd-appel-family-writing-scholars-celebrationWhat does the future of technology look like when powered by both groundbreaking innovation and greater inclusion? In this fireside conversation, Cristina Mancini, CEO of Black Girls Code (who was formerly at Warner Bro…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/new-code-building-tech-industry-where-everyone-thrivesThe concert-accordion (a.k.a. classical accordion) is a little-known instrument in North America. Michael Bridge, the first Canadian to receive a doctorate in accordion performance, gives concerts and speaks globally ab…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/226-buttons-860-reedsChristine Porath’s origin point for studying the consequences of incivility was observing her father suffering in a hospital bed, electrodes on his chest. “What put him there was working not for one but two really tox…
Congressional redistricting has become the most contentious new battleground in politics. In fact, in an upcoming special election, Californians will vote on how the state will move on redistricting. In this second of a…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/redistricting-101-can-independent-citizens-commissions-save-republicJessica Fagerstrom ‘06, medical physicist and educator, will discuss how physics and medicine come together to diagnose and treat cancer and will share insights of her journey from a liberal arts education to a career a…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/cmc-cancer-care-physicists-journey-intersection-science-and-medicineAshwin Gulati ’90 dismantles the myths, ambitions, and raw realities of a startup culture where 97% of ventures fail. So why do entrepreneurs keep lining up? Why do VCs keep funding them? And what isn’t working? In this…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/unspoken-truths-entrepreneurial-trenchesDebak Das, assistant professor in peace and security at the Josef Korbel School of Global and Public Affairs at the University of Denver, will speak to the proliferation of nuclear delivery systems, why the global nucle…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/global-nuclear-order-and-proliferation-delivery-systemsIn an interview format with two CMC students, Nadine Strossen, professor emerita at NYU School of Law and Senior Fellow at FIRE (the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression), will address pressing questions abou…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/free-speech-rights-and-wrongs-current-controversies