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Claremont McKenna College blends a teacher/scholar model, senior thesis, and network of research institutes to prepare students who are thoughtful leaders that make real contributions to society. One intention of the Campaign for Claremont McKenna is to support an even broader range of research opportunities tailored to individual student interests.
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Ana Kostioukova ’11 collaborates with her thesis advisor, William Ascher, the Donald C. McKenna Professor of Government and Economics, to look at how a specific social safety net program might one day help Thailand’s poor.
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Brianna Losoya ’12 analyzes the economic and political dimensions of proposed congressional bills in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks with Brock Blomberg P’13, the Robin and Peter Barker Professor of Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, a George R. Roberts Fellow, and dean of the Robert Day School of Economics and Finance.
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Sara Stern ’12 addresses the issue of identity with Amy Kind, associate professor of philosophy, chair of the philosophy department, and interim director of the Gould Center for Humanistic Studies.
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Andrew Vinson ’11 and Jessica Wall ’12 work with Anna Wenzel, assistant professor of chemistry, on ways to use gold to create brand-new molecules, developing building blocks for a variety of medications and petroleum-based products.
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India Wade ’13 questions the nature of constitutional amendments with George Thomas, associate professor of government, laying the groundwork to analyze the creation of constitutions in other parts of the world, such as the Middle East.
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Philip Liao ’14 and Lenny Fukshansky, associate professor of mathematics, plunge into a fast-paced learning environment studying concepts of planar lattices: certain arrangements of points in a plane.
Websclusives
Professor Lynch in the News
Frederick Lynch, associate professor of government, hit the media circuit this summer promoting his new book,
One Nation Under AARP: The Fight Over Medicare, Social Security, and America’s Future. Lynch had an op-ed piece, titled “How AARP Can Get
Its Groove Back,” published in the
New York Times, and appeared on several radio shows, including KCRW’s To The Point with Warren Olney and KPCC’s AirTalk.
Falling for CMC
CMC’s relationship with the U.S. ROTC program opened the door for three CMC staff members to tandem parachute jump with the Golden Knights, the U.S. Army’s elite parachute team.
The Analyst Papers
CMC’s history has been chronicled online by the
Forum, the official student publication of the College. The series, published in five parts, is titled “The Analyst Papers” in honor of CMC’s first student newspaper,
The Analyst.
Getting to Know the New Faculty
CMC has recruited twelve outstanding new tenure and tenure- track faculty this fall.
