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Student Experience & Belonging

���Ҵ�ý Lacrosse Stars—and Twin Sisters—Lily and Thyra Herrmann Earn Awards for Community Building and Character

���Ҵ�ý graduates and lacrosse teammates — twin sisters Lily Herrmann ’21 and Thyra Herrmann ’21 — each earned major awards for community building and character. Lily received the IWLCA Community Awareness Award; Thyra was honored with the 2021 SCIAC Women’s Lacrosse Character Award. The awards recognize their strong dedication to athletics, leadership, social responsibility, and community engagement.

Academics, Ideas, Learning

Professor José Z. Calderón Co-authors Paper on Intersectional Solidarity

���Ҵ�ý Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Chicano/a-Latino/a Studies José Z. Calderón recently co-authored an article that explores how movements predominately focused on one issue can coalesce across causes. The article, “Intersectional Organizing and Educational Justice Movements: Strategies for Cross-Movement Solidarities,” appeared in a special spring 2021 issue of The Assembly: A Journal for Public Scholarship on Education, published by the University of Colorado at Boulder’s School of Education.

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Faculty Excellence

Associate Professor Suyapa Portillo ’96 featured on KPFA’s “Rising Up with Sonali” radio show about the Biden Administration’s recent stance on immigration at the southern border.

"Is The Biden Administration Trying To Have It Both Ways On Immigration?" —KPFA - Rising Up with Sonali

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College News

���Ҵ�ý named one of the 10 most welcoming colleges by College Magazine

"Top 10 Most Welcoming Remote and In-Person Universities" —College Magazine

Faculty Excellence

Associate Professor of Chicano/a-Latino/a Transnational Studies Suyapa Portillo Villeda pens op-ed about root cause of Central American migration

"The Root Cause of Central American Migration Is US Imperialism" —Jacobin

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• Chicanx/Latinx Student Affairs

College News

���Ҵ�ý Adopts Test-Blind Admission Policy

SAT and ACT scores will be entirely eliminated from the admission review process for ���Ҵ�ý’s fall 2022 admission cycle.

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Faculty Excellence

Bird Pairs Practice Mind-Control to Create Dovetailing Duets

Professor Melissa Coleman explores the neuroscience behind coordinated birdsong

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• Neuroscience

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• Department of Natural Sciences

Access, Affordability, and Outcomes

Short Stories from a Long Life

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• Alumni

Access, Affordability, and Outcomes

Devon Hartman ’77 Plans to (Solar) Power the Economy

���Ҵ�ý alumnus Devon Hartman ’77 has launched CHERP Solar Works, the world’s first nonprofit solar panel assembly factory, based in Pomona, CA. The project aims to create hundreds of living-wage jobs, provide free solar power to low-income families, and rebuild U.S. solar manufacturing through a national network of community-based micro-factories. Founded by Hartman’s nonprofit CHERP Inc., this initiative unites climate action and economic opportunity, reflecting the lifelong values of activism and sustainability that began at ���Ҵ�ý.

Access, Affordability, and Outcomes

NPR profiles Yusef Pierce ’21, first Inside-Out Pathway-to-BA Graduate on Morning Edition

Inside-Out-Pathway-to-BA graduate featured on NPR's Morning Edition.

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• Justice Education Center at the Claremont Colleges