The Mercury News interviewed Prof. Jack Pitney about the Golden State’s midterm elections. In California, “it remains to be seen whether people get excited about the House races when there aren’t any competitive statewide races,” he said.
The New York Times quoted Prof. Minxin Pei reflecting on China’s rhetoric during the Cuban Missile Crisis. “The official line referred to the U.S. and the Soviet Union as one imperialist fighting another imperialist, each one a threat to the world,” Pei said. “It was a case of ‘dog biting dog.’”
The Bharat Express News also published the story.
In his op-ed for The Globe and Mail, “Xi’s inevitable third term will add a new tier to the Communist Party’s house of cards,” Prof. Minxin Pei analyzed the prospects of the Chinese president’s third term.
The Christian Science Monitor interviewed Prof. Minxin Pei about the economic and societal consequences of isolationism faced by China. “Before 2018 and the trade war, their goal was aspirational. Today, it is existential,” he said, adding that China’s leaders “have elevated self-sufficiency to a level China has not seen since the end of the Mao era” in 1976.
Timothy Gallagher’s ’19 CMC science career came full circle this year. The summer before his senior year, he made an impression during a funded internship through the Soll Center for Student Opportunity at Scripps Research in San Diego. Now, he’s studying for his Ph.D. there.
John Spinosa ’80 wanted to try a new approach.
Before he arrived at the San Diego Blood Bank in the summer of 2017, Spinosa had co-founded a biotech company. Now, as the pathologist and chief medical officer began digging into the blood bank’s fundamental challenge—how to meet the constant demand for multiple varieties of blood from a supply dependent on a largely unpredictable pool of volunteer donors—he turned to one of an entrepreneur’s favorite tools: data.
Two weeks after giving birth to her second child, Dr. Tanya Remer Altmann ’94 was heading to New York to appear on Today for the first time. The California-based pediatrician was boarding the plane when a producer called to say they changed the topic for her segment—to a study being released the next morning that she didn’t know much about.
In December 1953, at the suggestion of trustee Herbert Hoover Jr. (former United States Assistant Secretary of State), the CMC faculty approved a joint five-year engineering-business administration program, leading to a BA from CMC in business administration and a BS in engineering from Stanford University.
From investigating the resiliency of young adults to turning back the clock on memory for older populations, four professors in CMC’s Psychological Sciences department are looking at how we mentally manage our world.
