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December 15, 2008 - Mills College celebrates 80 years of musical innovation as it reopens the historic Mills Concert Hall after an extensive 18-month
renovation with a music festival featuring some of the world's leading contemporary musicians. The six-concert series,
Giving Free
Play to the Imagination, runs from February 21 through April 5, 2009. Read
the full story
December 12, 2008 - The Mills College cross country team has received the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) Buffalo Funds Five Star Award for exemplary character and sportsmanship. Read the full story
November 26, 2008 - Carlota Caulfield, Mills College professor of Spanish and Spanish American Studies, has released No Soy Tu Musa / I'm Not Your Muse, an anthology of Irish contemporary poems. Read the full story
November 26, 2008 - Mills College alumna Barbara Lee (Class of 1973) was named chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus. Read the full story
November 15, 2008 - The National Science Foundation has awarded Mills College with a $750,000 grant to prepare science and math educators and help tackle the problem of teacher shortages. Read the full story
November 12, 2008 - Mills College professor of government Paul Schulman's latest book High Reliability Management, Operating on the Edge (Stanford University Press) reveals the untold stories of people who work to keep our infrastructure system running and safe. Read the full story
November 6, 2008 - Mills College professor of biology Bruce Pavlik's latest book, The California Deserts: An Ecological Rediscovery (University of California Press) may alter the way we address environmental challenges. Read the full story
November 4, 2008 - Mills College is proud to announce an emergency loan program to full-time undergraduate and graduate students to help ensure their continuous education at the College. Read the full story
November 2, 2008 - Mills College professor of art history Moira Roth is one of 21 artists selected to represent the Bay Area in a multidisciplinary group exhibition. Read the full story
October 31, 2008 - The Mills College swim team has topped the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) Academic All-American honor with the highest grade point average in their division. Read the full story
October 28, 2008 - What started out as a senior thesis for Mills alumna Alysha Nachtigall may ultimately change the quality of life for Mills and its surrounding neighbors. Read the full story
October 6, 2008 - Sandra Greer, Mills College provost and dean of the faculty and professor of chemistry, has received a teaching award from the University of Maryland College Park. Greer joined the Mills faculty in July 2008. Read the full story
October 5, 2008 - Beginning in summer 2009, Mills College will host more than 300 language students enrolled in the Middlebury College Language Schools program. Read the full story
September 23, 2008 - Lisa Urry, Letts-Villard Chair of the Biology Department at Mills College, is a coauthor of the new eighth edition of Biology, the world's most popular introductory biology textbook. An estimated 65 percent of all doctors and biological scientists in the United States under the age of 40 began their biology studies with an edition of Biology. Read the full story
September 22, 2008 - Mills College is among the 75 colleges and universities nationwide to be highlighted in KIWI Magazine's annual green college report. . Read the full story
September 16, 2008 - Contrary to the stereotype that only anti-social 14-year-old boys play videogames, a national poll of teens finds that almost all American teenagers play either console, computer, or cell phone games. The groundbreaking survey also challenges the notion that video game playing causes teens to withdraw from their communities. Mills researchers found that video game playing that provides civic learning experiences, such as helping others or building and managing a city, may build teens' skills and commitments to civic engagement. Read the full story
Brown’s Achievements to Be Recognized with Honorary Dance Performance and Award
September 16, 2008 - Mills College celebrates the start of the academic year on Friday, September 19, 2008 with a Convocation address delivered by world-renowned choreographer and Mills alumna Trisha Brown. The College's 2008 Convocation begins at 10:15 am on the campus' Toyon Meadow. Read the full story
September 15, 2008 - Mills College's Book Art Program will host the first Combat PaperProject at a Bay Area university, bringing local war veterans to participate in a national peace art project from Oct.13–15. Read the full story
September 8, 2008 -
Following its long tradition of experimentation, leadership, social responsibility, and creativity, Mills College is proud to announce the establishment of the Center for Socially Responsible Business at the Lorry I. Lokey Graduate School of Business. Read the
full story
September 1, 2008 - Mills
College
art professor Anna Valentina Murch's photographic prints, Dissolving, will be exhibited at
Brian Gross Fine Art, 49 Geary Street, 5th Floor, San Francisco, from September 4 to November 1, 2008.
The exhibition opens with a free public reception on Thursday, September 4 from 5:30 to 7:30 pm. Read the full
story
August 29, 2008 - The works of
Korean female
artists will be exhibited in The Offering Table: Women Activist Artists from Korea at the Mills
College Art Museum from September 6 through December 7, 2008. Read the full story
August 22, 2008 -
U.S. News & World Report has ranked Mills College fourth among its peers of the best
universities and colleges in the West, moving up from last year's ranking at sixth. The College was also
ranked seventh on the "Great Schools, Great Prices" list for the West. Read the full
story
August
20, 2008 - Mills College today announced the first master of fine arts degree in book art and
creative
writing in the country. Building on more than 80 years of leadership in the field of creative
writing and 30 years in book art, Mills designed the program to address the growing interest in book
art—one of the fastest-growing new academic fields of study. Read the full story
August 15, 2008 - A new top colleges
list by
Forbes ranked Mills College 75th in the country, placing it among the top two percent in the United
States. Read the full
story
Mills Recognized for
Top-Notch Undergraduate Education and Green Campus
July 29, 2008 -
Mills College has been named one of the Best 368 Colleges and one of the 117 “Best Western
Colleges” in the nation by the Princeton Review. The College also stands out with a top-notch green
rating. Read the
full story
June 20,
2008
- The Lorry I. Lokey Graduate School of Business at Mills College has joined the Forté Foundation, a
consortium of major corporations, top business schools, and influential nonprofit organizations
directing talented women towards leadership roles in business. Read the full story
June 9, 2008 - Mills
College doctoral student in the School of Education Elizabeth Rood has received a national award for
her work as principal of Leadership High School in San Francisco. Read the full story
May 27, 2008 - Erika
Martinez
and Patricia Tumang, Mills College alumnae, have received prestigious Fulbright scholarships in
2008. Read the
full story
May 20, 2008 - Mills College is proud to announce the appointment of distinguished
University of Maryland chemistry and chemical engineering professor Dr. Sandra C. Greer as Mills
provost and dean of the faculty, effective July 1, 2008. Read the full story
A Handbook to Luck Honored for Best Fiction
May 12, 2008 - Cristina Garcia, distinguished visiting writer at Mills College, has
won
the 27th Northern California Book Award in fiction for her fourth novel, A Handbook to Luck
(Alfred A. Knopf, 2007). She was honored at a ceremony and book reading on April 13, 2008 at the San
Francisco Main Library. Read the full story
May 2, 2008 - 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. Read the full story
April 29, 2008 - 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. Read the full story
April 11, 2008 - 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. Read the full story
Rita
Moreno, Renel Brooks-Moon, Glenn Voyles to Receive Honorary Degrees on Saturday, May 17, 2008
April 10, 2008 - 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. Read the full story
April 10, 2008 - 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. Read the full story
March 27, 2008 - 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. Read the full
story
370 Girls
to Attend Expanding Your Horizons Conference, Saturday, March 22, 2008
March 18, 2008 - 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. Read the full story
March 17, 2008 - 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." Read the
full story
March 16,
2008
- 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.
Read the full
story
March 14, 2008
-
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. Read the full story
Rich Schools Offer More
Civic Learning Opportunities
March 3, 2008 - 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. Read the full story
February 29, 2008 -
Competing
against professional journalists, Mills College students have won national recognition for their radio
series "The Dropout Dilemma" on Oakland public schools' dropout rates. Read the full story
February 29, 2008 - 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. Read the full story
February 25,
2008 -
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." Read the full story
February 20, 2008
- 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. Read the full
story
Series to Mark 40th Anniversary of Mills' Legendary Center for Contemporary Music
February 19, 2008 - 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. Read the full
story
February 14, 2008 - Mills
College
has been awarded an honor from the President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll for
exemplary public service to disadvantaged youth. Read the full story
February 11, 2008 - 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. Read the
full story
February 8, 2008 - 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. Read the full story
February 6, 2008 - 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. Read the full
story
February 5, 2008 - 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. Read the full story
February 4, 2008 - 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. Read
the full story
January 25, 2008 - 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. Read the full story
January 14, 2008 - 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. Read the full story
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