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Scripps students gain global knowledge through the EU Center at Scripps his April, the European Union Center of California, headquartered at Scripps College, hosted the 6th annual Claremont-UC Undergraduate Research Conference. This year’s conference brought 42 undergraduate students from across the United States and throughout the world to campus. In addition to students from Scripps, Claremont McKenna, Pomona, and Pitzer Colleges, the institutions
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From left, Elizabeth DeGori ’10, Lauren Sims ’09, and Kendra Amick ’08
represented included Harvard, University of Pennsylvania, Berkeley, UCLA, and the University of Rome. The conference, inaugurated in 2003, is jointly sponsored by the EU Center and the University of California and is designed to improve undergraduates’ understanding of the European Union and EU-European relations. Each student at the conference presents a paper containing their original research on some aspect of the European Union. Faculty members from across Claremont then judge the papers, and the best are
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selected for inclusion in the EU Center’s annual conference publication. This year, 11 of the 42 papers pre– sented at the conference were selected for publication. Two of those eleven papers were written by Scripps students, Elizabeth DeGori ’10 and Lauren Sims ’09. Elizabeth and Lauren are among four Scripps students studying EU affairs in Europe this summer with the support of the EU Center. Elizabeth’s plans take her to the University of Washington’s program on the EU held in Brussels, Belgium; Lauren was awarded an internship at the Institute for European Affairs in Dublin, Ireland. They will be joined in Europe by Amanda Smith ’08, who, like Elizabeth, will be interning at the Institute for European Affairs in Dublin, as well as by Kendra Amick ’08, who will attend the University of Rome-Tor Vergata’s program in Rome and Sienna. All four Scripps students are supported by scholarships from the EU Center that will fully cover their travel and local expenses. The EU Center of California was established at Scripps in 1998 as part of a network of 10 EU Centers across the United States. The Center seeks to advance public understanding of European integration through education, research, and outreach efforts. Undergraduate education is the Center’s top priority, which it promotes by sponsoring a curriculum on European Union studies, providing students opportunities to study and intern abroad, and hosting lecturers and conferences at Scripps. David Andrews, professor in the Department of Politics and International Relations at Scripps, is the Center’s founding director. ■
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Senior officials of The Claremont Colleges delegation: Robert Walton, CEO of Claremont University Consortium; Maria Klawe, HMC president; Laura Trombley, Pitzer College president; David Oxtoby, Pomona College president; Pamela Gann, Claremont McKenna president; Robert Klitgaard, Claremont Graduate University president; Michael Lamkin, Scripps College representative and Bessie and Cecil Frankel Professor of Music; and Gregory Dewey, Keck Graduate Institute, senior vice president for academic affairs and dean of the faculty.
The Claremont Colleges Travel to Asia This spring, a delegation from The Claremont Colleges visited Singapore, Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Beijing to meet with alumni and parents, as well as key government and academic leaders in the region. The group, which included presidents, deans, faculty, staff, and trustees from the five undergraduate colleges, the two graduate schools, and the university consortium executive office, visited 17 institutions of higher education representing a range of disciplines and programs. Scripps was represented by Michael Deane Lamkin, Frankel Professor of Music and former dean of faculty, and Irene Tang, biology professor in Joint Science. The trip is a continuation of Scripps’ efforts to expand its international outreach and exchange programs, and follows last summer’s successful visit by members of the Music Department to Xiamen University. ■