"Everybody talks about the weather, but no one does anything about it."That bit of undeniable truth often attributed to Mark Twain is something J. Emil Morhardt, the Roberts Professor of Environmental Biology and direct…
Captain Lawrence J. "Jack" Goddard '50, of San Diego, died April 26. Goddard was Claremont McKenna College's oldest living alumnus and a recipient of the Eugene L. Wolver Jr. '51 Lifetime Service Award and the Jack Star…
Although General William T. Sherman famously remarked, "War is all hell," the subject, nonetheless, has been fertile ground for some of the world's greatest literature. To that end, the depiction of armed conflict in mo…
Three of CMC's outstanding faculty members were honored at the College's 2012 Awards Banquet on May 2 with teaching awards: Gary Hamburg, Andrew Schroeder, and Shana Levin. Collectively (and respectively, by order), the…
Professor Audrey Bilger, associate professor of literature and faculty director of the Center for Writing & Public Discourse, has just published, Obama Evolves!, an opinion piece for the Ms. Magazine blog. In it, Bilger…
Last November he was given a Teen Nick HALO Award from the Nickelodeon network. Now, it seems rising sophomore Kyle Weiss is one of the world's 25 Most Powerful and Influential Young People. On Friday, May 4, Youth Serv…
Political analyst and commentator William Kristol has been named Chairman of the Board of the Salvatori Center for the Study of Individual Freedom. Kristol will assume his new role at the Board's next meeting in late Ju…
By Greg Zahner 12As a gay student arriving at Claremont McKenna College, I was well-aware of our College's hyper-masculine reputation. With the College's encouragement, students strive to become the "leaders" of the nat…
As the culmination of a semester-long course on English cultural history (Tudor and Stuart England), students from CMC are contributing to an exhibition at the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens…
CMC recently became an institutional member of the American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS), which is headquartered at the University of Chicago and has several academic centers spread around India. Established in 19…
