Priya Junnar will lead the Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum for the 2014-15 season. She replaces long-time Athenaeum director Bonnie Snortum, who retired this year. Jeff Huang, vice president for student affairs, admission a…
Joshua Rosett, Curb Family Associate Professor of Business and Law and George R. Roberts Fellow, is the new director of Claremont McKenna's Financial Economics Institute. He also happens to be a trained cellist. [Note…
Chase Huntley '98 on C-SPAN September 3, 2014 marks the 50th anniversary of the Wilderness Act, signed into law by President Johnson in 1964 to protect America’s most awe-inspiring wild places. In honor of the milestone…
41,000 Cubic yards of earth that will be excavated for the arena level of the Roberts Pavilion, which is being constructed on the former site of Ducey Gym (see photo, top). The current schedule anticipates completion…
https://www.cmc.edu/magazine/summer-2014/claremont-mckenna-by-the-numbersThe Crown Challenge, which has produced more multi-year donor pledges than at any other time in CMC’s history, has been honored by the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) for its revolutionary st…
https://www.cmc.edu/magazine/summer-2014/top-case-honors-go-to-the-crown-challengeBrief & Newsworthy Human Rights Leadership: Wendy Lower is a National Book Award-nominated author, a government advisor and Holocaust scholar, the John K. Roth Professor of History and George R. Roberts Fellow, and, a…
https://www.cmc.edu/magazine/summer-2014/currentsAs I talk with alumni across the country and around the world, I’m often asked: “What can I do to support our College? I don’t live near an Alumni Association chapter and it’s difficult for me to attend events in downto…
https://www.cmc.edu/magazine/summer-2014/alumni-involvement-with-a-deep-impactRobert S. Carnachan Jr. ’49, of Greenbrae, Calif., died on May 3. He was 94. Carnachan was born and raised in Los Angeles and worked in the airplane industry after graduating from John Marshall High School. He serve…
https://www.cmc.edu/magazine/summer-2014/in-memoriamGraduation marks the end of an undergraduate’s career, but the term “commencement” refers to the start of something new—a message repeated often during the ceremony held in honor of CMC’s 67th graduating class on May 17…
https://www.cmc.edu/magazine/summer-2014/67th-commencement-a-time-of-endings-and-beginningsHost Bill Kristol (left) with Claremont McKenna's Mark Blitz. Mark Blitz, the Fletcher Jones Professor of Political Philosophy and director of the Henry Salvatori Center at Claremont McKenna, was a recent guest on Con…
