The Current • 29th August 2024

Sign me up: staff stalwarts help keep commencement running

As director of Event Management & Protocol, it’s Gretchen Falvo’s job to oversee the enormous logistical feat that characterizes commencement weekend each year. Fortunately, staff volunteers pitch in...

The Current • 1st May 2024

Very Important Trees Tour imparts knowledge, inspires appreciation

Beauty is all around us at UC Santa Barbara, but for Cameron Hannah-Bick a highlight is the campus vegetation. That became very clear on the midday “Very Important Tree Tour" she led in April...

The Current • 18th March 2024

Opening doors: Cuca Acosta’s journey from Santa Barbara High to college admissions leadership

It’s a rainy February evening and a group of high school sophomores and juniors, along with their parents, have braved the weather to begin the college admission process.

The Current • 11th December 2023

Can we talk? Campus ombuds offers training for tough conversations

If you tend to clam up during a difficult conversation – either at work or in your personal life – you are not alone.

22nd July 2023

CMC’s Rose Institute turns 50 | Claremont McKenna College

Conceived in the early 70s so students and faculty could collaborate on research, the Rose Institute has made its mark on CMC’s campus, the alumni it has launched, and on the state of California.

30th April 2023

Adding TV producer to her CV:Bertha Tobias '24

Bertha Tobias '24 wanted to launch a television show in her home country of Namibia. She didn't let her limited experience in TV, or a lack of funding get in her way.

11th April 2023

Looking Back to Advance Sustainable Fashion

When Cayman Chen ’25 set out to learn about how the fashion industry might become more sustainable, she expected to find that innovation––new fabrics, techniques, or ways of textile recycling––would be the solution. Instead, she learned that looking backward offered some novel ideas.

25th February 2023

Rose Parade Memories

File this under: I never knew this was a sport. Vaulting -- gymnastics on horseback. #brave

5th February 2023

Evolving Together: Biology and Computer Science

CMC Prof. Ran Libeskind-Hadas is a computer scientist who uses computational methods to help solve some long-standing problems in biology – including questions posed by Charles Darwin in the 1830s.

4th October 2022

Groundbreaking marks milestone for CMC | Claremont McKenna College

With shovels, hardhats, and a rendering of the visionary new Center as a backdrop, faculty, students, staff, trustees, and other guests assembled on Friday, Sept. 30 for a groundbreaking ceremony for the Robert Day Sciences Center...

24th August 2022

Surprise Me

Here's something I love: assigning someone a project and getting back something completely unexpected...

7th November 2021

Bon Voyage, Golden Bear

After 15 months of planning, the Training Ship Golden Bear steamed out of the Carquinez Strait this morning bound for Hawaii, the first of two summer training cruises. Many of those aboard were on deck and waved vigorously as the ship’s horn blew its departure message. 

Issuu • 10th July 2021

2021 Spring/Summer Cal Maritime Magazine

I wear a lot of hats at Cal Maritime (though not a uniform!) and serve as the editor of the alumni magazine, one of the best parts of my job. For this issue, I shot the cover, wrote most of the articles, and edited the rest. And I'm pretty sure it's the first time the word "sexy" has ever appeared in its pages.

29th October 2020

Moving Images

Oliver Chen ’21 is a busy guy. He’s a senior, runs cross country, and majors in mechanical engineering. Yet somehow, he finds many hours to devote to something that started as a hobby but has since grown into much more...

31st May 2020

Disrupted Diplomas

On Saturday, May 30th my son graduated (via Zoom) from probably the most unusual high school in America. And I mean that in the best possible sense.

21st April 2020

Daughter of the Depression

Whenever my teenage daughter tells people that she celebrated her seventh birthday with a Depression-themed party she gets a reaction. Not “depression” she quickly clarifies. “The Depression.” That usually doesn’t help – and more explanation is needed.

14th March 2019

Tilting at Windfarms: Clearing up Clean Energy Myths

Many students around the world are opting out of school Friday to demand that action be taken on the world’s pressing and overarching crisis –– climate change. It’s an enormous, impressive, and attention-grabbing display. Meanwhile, however, some of their elders clearly need some schooling in the same arena.

8th November 2018

My Montana Moment

I first visited Montana when I was around eleven, on family cross-country road trip. Years later, I knocked on doors for the state's Democratic candidates in advance of the nail-biting midterm elections.

3rd March 2018

The Fondest Farewell

The day before a powerful and deadly mud and debris slide poured down from the Santa Ynez Mountains into Montecito, California 88-year old Sister Pauline Krismanich was sitting at her office desk, doing her work. This comes as no surprise to anyone who knows Pauline.

3rd October 2017

The Most Popular of Places

Crowds make me anxious, and that’s been my excuse for not visiting Yosemite National Park since my family and I moved to California six years ago. I’ve been there –...