“The CMC students I met were deeply impressive: super-smart, serious of purpose, and intellectually sophisticated, but still fun- loving and great conversationalists. The quality of their comments and questions met or e…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/testimonialsNina Tandon is CEO and co-founder of EpiBone, the world’s first company growing living human bones for skeletal reconstruction. She is the co-author of Super Cells: Building with Biology, a book that explores the new fr…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/body-30Gordon Phillips is the Charles E. Cook-Community Bank Chair of Finance and professor of finance and business economics at USC's Marshall School of Business. He has expertise in mergers, firm organization, security issua…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/when-are-powerful-ceos-beneficial-importance-industry-competitionOlivia Gatwood and Megan Falley of Speak Like a Girl offer an interactive, feminist show that uses spoken word as a tool to highlight gender inequality and related issues. Through humorous and passionate performances, G…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/speak-girl-evening-spoken-wordDavid Barboza is the Shanghai Bureau Chief of The New York Times, where he has been posted since 2004. In 2013, Barboza was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting “for his striking exposure of corruption…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/reporting-chinaVictoria Sanford is professor and chair of anthropology and founding director of the Center for Human Rights and Peace Studies at Lehman College. She holds a doctorate in Anthropology from Stanford University, where she…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/maya-women-targets-gender-violence-and-guatemalan-genocideThe undergraduate years are a pivotal time when students are encouraged not only to try new things, but also to recognize an important fact: Mistakes are necessary on the road to new ideas and self-discovery. That prin…
David Sedaris is a humorist, comedian, author, and radio contributor. A regular on NPR and in the New Yorker, he is the best-selling author of, among many other books, Me Talk Pretty One Day and When You Are Engulfed in…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/evening-david-sedarisWajahat Ali, a journalist at Al Jazeera America, is a lawyer, an award-winning playwright, a television host, and a consultant for the U.S. State Department. Ali helped launch the Al Jazeera America network as co-host o…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/islamophobia-and-mediaTim Haughton is an associate professor of European Politics at the University of Birmingham and a former director of Birmingham’s Centre for Russian, European, and Eurasian Studies. He has held visiting positions at Har…
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