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Top Stories for Sunday, May 11, 2008
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Oakland, CA - Mills College has won first place for recycling food waste in the national RecycleMania competition, recycling more than 34 pounds per person for the ten-week competition.
May 2, 2008 Read the full story
Oakland, CA - World-renowned dance choreographer and Mills College associate professor of dance, Molissa Fenley, has received a Guggenheim fellowship in choreography. She is one of 190 artists, scientists, and scholars to receive the prestigious award this year out of more than 2,600 applicants from the United States and Canada.
April 29, 2008 Read the full story
Oakland, CA - Janet L. Holmgren, Mills College President, and Vivian Stephenson, chair of the Mills College Board of Trustees, have been named among the Bay Area's "Most Influential Women in Business" by the San Francisco Business Times. They are featured in the April 11–17, 2008 issue.
April 11, 2008 Read the full story
Rita Moreno, Renel Brooks-Moon, Glenn Voyles to Receive Honorary Degrees on Saturday, May 17, 2008
Oakland, CA - Mills College will present its 120th Commencement on Saturday, May 17, 2008 with an address given by award-winning actress Rita Moreno. During the ceremony, honorary doctorates will be conferred upon Moreno, Renel Brooks-Moon, a Mills alumna (Class of 1981) who is the public address announcer for the San Francisco Giants, and Glenn Voyles, a Mills Trustee and investment management expert.
April 10, 2008 Read the full story
Oakland, CA - Mills College, one of the first women's colleges in the nation and the oldest women's college in the West, shattered a glass ceiling to celebrate the groundbreaking of a new building for its newly named Lorry I. Lokey Graduate School of Business.
April 10, 2008 Read the full story
Oakland, CA - The "glass ceiling" will shatter on April 10. Mills College, one of the first women's colleges in the nation and the oldest women's college in the West will commemorate the groundbreaking and naming of a new home for its women-focused MBA program. The Mills College Graduate School of Business is the first for women in the West, and one of only two for women in the country.
March 27, 2008 Read the full story
370 Girls to Attend Expanding Your Horizons Conference, Saturday, March 22, 2008
Oakland, CA - Sparking girls' interests in science and mathematics, Mills College will host the Expanding Your Horizons conference on Saturday, March 22, 2008 from 8:30 am–3:15 pm. The day-long event will give 370 girls in 6th–8th grades from Alameda and Contra Costa counties the opportunities to meet women working in traditionally male occupations through innovative workshops, presentations, and interviews.
March 18, 2008 Read the full story
Oakland, CA - Mills College students in Public Radio Reporting have won two Gracie awards for outstanding series and outstanding documentary for their radio series, "The Dropout Dilemma."
March 17, 2008 Read the full story
Oakland, CA - The oldest women's college in the West, Mills College has released Celebrating the Cultural Landscape Heritage of Mills College, a historic pictorial of its past and plans for its future.
March 16, 2008 Read the full story
Oakland, CA - Mills College MBA student Martha Braithwaite has won a national honor for her work to help teenage mothers create a path out of poverty through education.
March 14, 2008 Read the full story
Rich Schools Offer More Civic Learning Opportunities
Oakland, CA - Mills College researchers have found an educational disparity among young voters that helps to explain the unequal voting rates of youth in the 2008 presidential primaries.
March 3, 2008 Read the full story
Oakland, CA - Competing against professional journalists, Mills College students have won national recognition for their radio series "The Dropout Dilemma" on Oakland public schools' dropout rates.
February 29, 2008 Read the full story
Oakland, CA - Charlotte Cotton, department head and curator of photography at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, will present a lecture on Curating Contemporary Photography, on Thursday, April 3, 2008, at 6:45 pm at Mills College. The event is free and open to the public, and will be held in the Danforth Lecture Hall, Mills College, 5000 MacArthur Blvd., Oakland, CA.
February 29, 2008 Read the full story
Oakland, CA - In honor of the Mills College Betty Irene Moore Natural Sciences Building's highest certified rating in environment design and construction, Mayor Ron Dellums has proclaimed February 25 through 29 "Mills College Week."
February 25, 2008 Read the full story
Oakland, CA - Philanthropists Gordon and Betty Moore have announced a $4 million gift to Mills College to support the construction costs of the recently completed Natural Sciences Building. The new building will be named the Betty Irene Moore Natural Sciences Building in recognition of this gift.
February 20, 2008 Read the full story
Series to Mark 40th Anniversary of Mills' Legendary Center for Contemporary Music
Oakland, CA - Public radio station KALW (91.7 FM) will broadcast a special series throughout March, "Music from Mills," highlighting the history and music of the internationally renowned Center for Contemporary Music at Mills College in Oakland, CA.
February 19, 2008 Read the full story
Oakland, CA - Mills College has been awarded an honor from the President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll for exemplary public service to disadvantaged youth.
February 14, 2008 Read the full story
Oakland, CA - Mills College is pleased to announce that Nalini Ghuman, PhD, has returned to the Department of Music. Because of her broad scope of duties as a classical musicologist, her absence has been a great loss to both her department and Mills College.
February 11, 2008 Read the full story
Oakland, CA - Just in time for Black History Month, Mills College has announced it will be the depository of a unique collection of African American musical history and tradition, In Our Own Words—The Negro Spirituals Heritage Keepers, recordings of Oakland's first oral history project on negro spirituals.
February 8, 2008 Read the full story
Oakland, CA - Mills College will host a community conversation on "Public Education and the Achievement Gap" on Wednesday, February 20, 2008 at 6:30 pm at Lisser Hall, Mills College, 5000 MacArthur Blvd., Oakland, CA. The event is free and open to the public.
February 6, 2008 Read the full story
Oakland, CA - International feminist scholar and activist Amina Mama has joined U.S. Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-Oakland) to teach a seven-week course called Real Policy, Real Politics at Mills College.
February 5, 2008 Read the full story
Oakland, CA - Days before Californians and voters in more than 20 other states go to the polls, former first daughter Chelsea Clinton visited Mills College on Saturday, February 2, and answered questions from young voters about her mother, U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton, and her run to become the country's next and first woman president.
February 4, 2008 Read the full story
Oakland, CA - A new documentary on Tillie Olsen, feminist and award-winning author, "Tillie Olsen: A Heart in Action," will be shown on Wednesday, February 6 at 6:30 pm in Lucie Stern 100 at Mills College, 5000 MacArthur Blvd., Oakland, CA. Admission is free and open to the public. Seating is limited. Previous screenings of the film at the Grand Lake Theater in Oakland have sold out.
January 25, 2008 Read the full story
Oakland, CA - The Mills College Graduate School of Business was prominently featured in the East Bay Business Times' January 4, 2008 issue. It was one of four schools featured among the 12 business schools in the East Bay.
January 14, 2008 Read the full story
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