ABC News featured Sarah Chen’22, who is the third CMC senior to be awarded a Rhodes Scholarship, the most competitive and prestigious scholarship in the world. Chen '22, a dual major in philosophy, politics, and economics (PPE) and international relations, is Claremont McKenna’s first female Rhodes Scholar and the first from the College in 28 years.

The story notes that Chen is the only Rhodes Scholar who attends a Southern California school. She will head to the University of Oxford in England to begin her graduate studies in Oct..

The Anchorage Daily News covered the story that Sarah Chen ’22 has been awarded a Rhodes Scholarship, which funds recipients’ graduate studies at Oxford, and is the oldest international academic fellowship and one of the most prestigious in the world.

The International Business Times interviewed Prof. Jack Pitney about former President Donald Trump’s possible 2024 presidential bid. "If he wants the GOP nomination, it's his for the asking,” Pitney said.

The Washington Monthly interviewed Prof. Lily Geismer about the history of microfinance. Geismer, whose research into microcredit and the liberal establishment is part of her upcoming book, “Left Behind: The Democrats’ Failed Attempt to Solve Inequality,” described how microfinance disappeared as an ideal. In the early 2000s, she said, “plenty of idealistic people I knew went on to work for microfinance organizations. My students today who have similar values are not interested.”

In an op-ed for Nikkei Asia, “China must not shut the door to cultural exchanges with the U.S.,” Prof. Minxin Pei wrote, “As bilateral ties between Beijing and Washington have steadily deteriorated in recent years, the cultural ties that bind the two nations are also fraying fast.”