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In honor of Steve Jobs
In 1984, I was a second-year graduate student at UC Davis. Some of my colleagues had purchased Kaypro computers, a bit of a fad in the geology department at that moment in time. As I began processing...
View ArticlePeace-building Work
Great news! This morning I learned, along with the rest of the world, that three women–Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian activist Leymah Gbowee, and Tawakul Karman of Yemen — have won...
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Happy birthday, Ellen!
Did you know that Ellen Browning Scripps is one of the few women featured on the cover of Time magazine? It’s true! Miss Ellen, photographed in her La Jolla home’s library, was on Time’s cover on...
View ArticleNational Equal Pay Day
Does our society still need a day of remembrance that women are consistently paid lower wages in comparison to their male counterparts? Sadly, yes! Today – National Equal Pay Day – is that day. One in...
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Women in Public Service Project
I’m not sure the words humbled and empowered belong in the same sentence ,yet those are the two powerful emotions I experienced on Monday as the first Women in Public Service Project Institute opened...
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Remembering Sally Ride
Reading of astronaut Sally Ride’s passing yesterday, I was reminded how important her journey was and why women should take pride in her place as the first female U.S. astronaut. Her historic journey...
View ArticleThe heart of intellectual thought belongs to the liberal arts
“The edge will go to those institutions that can effectively employ imagination, metaphor, and most of all storytelling.” So says Michael Malone in Thursday’s Wall Street Journal, where he makes the...
View ArticleA Historic Day for Women
Congratulations to our own Scripps College alumna Hannah-Beth Jackson ’71, who won her race to represent the 19th State Senate District in California (Santa Barbara County and parts of Ventura County)....
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Racing past another gender barrier
Congratulations to Danica Patrick, who yesterday won the pole position for NASCAR’s upcoming Daytona 500, with a lap at 196.434 mpg. She is the first woman in the history of NASCAR to win the pole for...
View ArticleMessage from President Bettison-Varga regarding tragedy in Boston
Dear Members of the Scripps College Community, As a community, we are saddened by the horrific bombing yesterday at the Boston Marathon. While Scripps has not received any reports of current students,...
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