The Daily Beast interviewed Prof. Jack Pitney about the expectations that President Joe Biden would rescue America like a superhero. “We expected Biden to return us to normality and it hasn’t happened. It’s not necessarily his fault, but people aren’t grading on a curve,” he said.

In an op-ed published in the Salt Lake Tribune, Religious Studies Prof. Cristina Rosetti writes of the distrust that fundamentalist groups have for government and medical authorities, resulting in many refusing COVID-19 vaccinations and searching for alternative remedies. These groups “still view the government with suspicion. Many continue polygamy, and fear of being reported to law enforcement keeps them from accessing resources like health care.”

The Associated Press published the announcement of a transformative lead gift from the W.M. Keck Foundation to support an iconic new facility to house the CMC’s new integrated sciences program. The program will prepare students for leadership within a modern global economy and create expansive, collaborative, and innovative learning opportunities.

The facility will be named the Robert Day Sciences Center, honoring CMC alumnus, fifty-year trustee, and W.M. Keck Foundation Chair and Chief Executive Officer Robert Day ’65 P’12.

Prof. Michael Fortner and Sarah Simionas ’23 co-authored an opinion essay for Divided We Fall, “The Bipartisanship of Police Reform and Public Safety.” “The criminal justice dilemma we face is not the people or their preferences but our politics. The will is there for long-term, structural solutions to urban violence,” they wrote.

In a commentary, “Will 2022 Midterms Be the Next Great Crisis Backlash?” for Real Clear Politics, Prof. Andrew Busch wrote, “At least twice in U.S. history, big political shakeups occurred in midterm elections that served as endpoints to periods of crisis, privation, and extraordinary government expansion and regimentation.”

ABC News featured Sarah Chen’22, who is the third CMC senior to be awarded a Rhodes Scholarship, the most competitive and prestigious scholarship in the world. Chen '22, a dual major in philosophy, politics, and economics (PPE) and international relations, is Claremont McKenna’s first female Rhodes Scholar and the first from the College in 28 years.

The story notes that Chen is the only Rhodes Scholar who attends a Southern California school. She will head to the University of Oxford in England to begin her graduate studies in Oct..

The Anchorage Daily News covered the story that Sarah Chen ’22 has been awarded a Rhodes Scholarship, which funds recipients’ graduate studies at Oxford, and is the oldest international academic fellowship and one of the most prestigious in the world.