History Prof. Shane Bjornlie's first book, Politics and Tradition Between Rome, Ravenna and Constantinople (Cambridge University Press, 2013) has received the First Book Award for 2016 from the Classical Association of…
During Pope Francis’s historic visit to the U.S. in late September, he addressed a joint meeting of Congress from the same podium used by Chaplain of the House of Representatives Patrick Conroy ’72. Each morning, Conroy…
https://www.cmc.edu/magazine/fall-2015/pleased-to-meet-you-holy-fatherHundreds of students and faculty gathered September 4 in McKenna Auditorium for CMC’s 69th Convocation Ceremony to kick-off the school year with speeches and song and faculty and staff honors for years of service and ac…
https://www.cmc.edu/magazine/fall-2015/convocation-2015FALL 2017 By Athenaeum Fellows Sarah Sanbar ’17 and Michael Grouskay ‘17 Thursday, 11/17 Nirupama Rao, career diplomat and former Indian ambassador to the U.S., spoke about her life and career in diplomacy. Ambassador R…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/week-in-reviewThe year was 1918. The morning news read, “French Medical Transport Mysteriously Sunk off Spanish Coast!” The room was filled with Allied military and civilian representatives, all scrambling to respond to the latest de…
https://www.cmc.edu/magazine/fall-2015/playing-hardball-in-model-unFollowing the successful examples of other leading colleges and universities across the nation—Oberlin and Wesleyan, for instance—CMC called its legions of volunteer-leaders to campus in early October for a focused week…
https://www.cmc.edu/magazine/fall-2015/deep-impactFaculty and students from The Claremont Colleges and Yale-NUS held the first EnviroLab Asia clinic trip to Singapore and Borneo (Jan. 4-13) to conduct research on the relationship between deforestation, oil palm and mar…
John Shrewsberry ’87 is the chief financial officer of Wells Fargo, the largest bank in the world by market value. His presentation will analyze the role of technology in financial services, how it affects incumbents an…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/innovation-on-wall-street-rise-of-financial-technologyTEDxClaremontColleges has finalized their speaker list for their 2016 event, which will take place on February 20th at Scripps College's Garrison Theater. The speakers will share their perspectives on the future based u…
