May 13, 2022
Kate Parrish ’21
Kate Parrish ’21 developed a work ethic and made lasting friendships at CMC
For Kate Parrish ’21, playing Division 3 basketball at CMC provided the best of both worlds.
“I was treated as a student first while also getting to play the sport I love at a competitive level!” said Parrish, a Psychology & Media Studies major, who played for the Athenas since her freshman year. “It was an incredibly rewarding experience.”
Allie Gould ’20
Neuroscience major Allie Gould ’20 fell in love with philosophy and won a best paper award
Allie Gould ’20 could hardly imagine becoming passionate about philosophy when she started at Claremont McKenna College as a neuroscience major. Four years later, in spring 2020, a paper that she submitted to a philosophy conference in Denver won the best paper award and was published in an international undergraduate philosophy journal, Stance.
April 23, 2022
In his Cutting-Edge Leadership column for Psychology Today, Prof. Ronald E. Riggio discussed grit and its relationship to leadership. “For leaders, it’s not enough to just possess grit,” he said, “they need to also develop the ability to inspire and motivate others.”
April 22, 2022
Multiple media outlets published news stories about the George R. Roberts ’66 P’93 $140 million gift, detailing how the gift will fund new construction and double the campus footprint, while highlighting Roberts’ philanthropy.
April 21, 2022
Eleanor Clift quoted Prof. Jack Pitney in a The Daily Beast op-ed about how the Democrats are finally learning to fight the GOP’s fire with fire: “They’re clearly latching on to libertarian rhetoric trying to limit the power of the government. That may win them more support than some invocation of ‘woke’ values.”
April 21, 2022
Prof. Jack Pitney was quoted in a Washington Examiner story about the Democrats’ mask mandate dilemma. Even if the Justice Department wins its appeal of a federal court’s decision to strike down the CDC’s public transportation mask mandate, the fact that the TSA stopped enforcing it will make it difficult to reverse. “Reimposing a mandate after it has been lifted is likely to be unpopular,” he said. “People dislike uncertainty and inconsistency.”
April 20, 2022
Prof. Lily Geismer was interviewed by The Nation about her new book, Left Behind: The Democrats’ Failed Attempt to Solve Inequality. In regard to the Clinton administration’s small, market-based reforms as solutions to poverty and inequality, Geismer said: “In the end, these micro-solutions both reinforce the power of the market—because they’re based on the techniques of consulting and especially of the emerging high-tech sector—and at the same time they don’t require much expenditure of political or economic capital.