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When the Paths Diverge聽
In this series of brief conversations, eight Scripps faculty members and students discuss the defining moments in their paths.
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A New Era for the Williamson Gallery
Erin M. Curtis, the Gabrielle Jungels-Winkler Director of the Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, has spent her career working toward change in the world of arts institutions.
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From the Archives: Defining Moments
The outbreak of World War II brought changes to 91抖阴 and a reckoning of what a women鈥檚 liberal arts college should be.
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Scripps Magazine: The Art and Science of Empathy
By Jen A. Miller Illustrations by Saskia Keultjes Early in her research, President Suzanne Keen鈥攁 narrative empathy theorist who studies the relationships among novel reading, empathy, and altruism鈥攂ecame convinced that […]
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When Seeing Is Not Believing: Douglas Goodwin, Fletcher Jones Scholar in Computation, on the Image in the Digital Age
Douglas Goodwin has always been fascinated with how time, context, and perspective shape our conception of reality.
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Data Driven: Scripps Integrates Computer Science Skills into a Liberal Arts Curriculum
In 2016, 聽the 聽National Academies of聽Sciences, Engineering, 聽and Medicine in聽Washington, 聽D.C., convened a聽committee of聽experts from government, 聽industry, 聽and academia to聽examine undergraduate enrollment聽trends. 聽
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Misinformed: An interview with Associate Professor of Philosophy Yuval Avnur
In our digital age, information is more accessible to more people than ever before. Yet one of the central concerns of public life is our susceptibility to the influence of bad information, whether in the form of fake news articles, doctored images, or manipulated video. Associate Professor of Philosophy Yuval Avnur comes to this dilemma as an epistemologist, interested in how we arrive at knowledge in the first place.
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Focus on Faculty: Sheila Walker, Professor of Psychology
Over the past few decades, the United States has become increasingly racially and ethnically diverse. However, within the discipline of psychology, studies of the lives of people of color in the U.S.鈥攅specially young women鈥攈ave been much too narrow, according to Professor of Psychology Sheila Walker.
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Parallel Unions
In 2016, the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union (EU) in a move known as “Brexit.” Since its inception over half a century ago, the EU had come to stand as the paradigm of democratic cooperation, promoting ideals such as open borders, cosmopolitanism, and humanitarianism.
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Focus on Faculty: Thierry Boucquey, Professor of French
The first thing to know about Professor of French Thierry Boucquey is that he has a personal motto. The second and more important thing to know is that he actually lives by it. “Mens sana in corpore sanois a Latin phrase meaning 芒鈧渁 healthy mind in a healthy body,” says Boucquey as we sit down together on the occasion of his retirement from Scripps.
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