The stakes can be life or death. Are our juries acting prudently? The United States judicial system assumes that jurors are able to critically analyze testimonies when forming their decisions. But when psychological exp…
When Charles Johnson, who will deliver the keynote address on Thursday, March 14 at the tribute to Dr. Ricardo Quinones, captured the National Book Award for his novel Middle Passage, he became the first African America…
Congressman David Dreier '75, Chairman of the House Rules Committee, came back to CMC on Feb. 19 for a day of class meetings and student and faculty visits, followed Feb. 20 with a lecture in downtown Los Angeles for th…
More than 480 parents and friends of CMC students gathered on campus Feb. 16-18 for the annual Parents Weekend. This three-day event featured eight seminars given by CMC faculty and staff, an address from President Gann…
Claremont McKenna College students Sarah Awad, Cameron Pinckney, and Carolyn Staples have won prizes for their work in the 2002 Undergraduate Student Poster Session, a major event of the joint annual meeting of the Amer…
The Freeman Foundation has granted $2 million to Claremont McKenna and Pitzer colleges to support new initiatives in Asian Studies over a four-year period, especially toward the development of new courses in the politic…
Claremont McKenna College has been ranked first among liberal arts colleges for commitment to community service-based federal work-study. The findings appear in the current issue of Washington Monthly, from a study comm…
The 12th annual Kravis de Roulet Conference, held on campus February 22-23, brought together a wide range of experts to discuss "Improving Leadership in Nonprofit Organizations." The conference, which drew about 200 par…
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Laurie Garrett of Newsday, will lecture at the Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum at 6:45 p.m. on Monday, March 11. She will discuss her latest work, Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global…
In an age of skepticism, can anything meaningful still be said about Truth? Professor Leszek Kolakowski, who has addressed the modern alienation of reason in his writings, will confront this question in his second lectu…
