National Grants

Pitzer College has received grants and contributions from foundations, corporations, and government agencies, among which are the Ahmanson Foundation, Atlantic Philanthropies (USA) Inc., the Avery Arts Foundation, the R. Stanton Avery Foundation, the Corella and Bertram F. Bonner Foundation, the Booth Ferris Foundation, the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations, the Christian A. Johnson Endeavor Foundation, the Freeman Foundation, the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation, the William Randolph Hearst Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the James Irvine Foundation, the Fletcher Jones Foundation, the James S. Kemper Foundation, the Kresge Foundation, the Henry Luce Foundation, the 3M Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the Bernard Osher Foundation, the Ralph M. Parsons Foundation, the Ann Peppers Foundation, the Mabel Wilson Richards Scholarship Fund, the John Stauffer Charitable Trust, and the Weingart Foundation.

In 2006, Pitzer’s Residential Life Project was significantly advanced through a $750,000 challenge grant from the Kresge Foundation.

Selected Faculty Publications

	Bill Anthes, Assistant Professor of Art History, Native Moderns: American Indian Painting, 1940–1960. Durham: Duke University Press, 2006.
	Dipa Basu, Professor of Sociology, The Vinyl Ain’t Final: Hip Hop and the Globalization of Black Popular Culture. (London: Pluto Press, 2006), co-edited with Sid Lemelle, was published in the U.S. by the University of Michigan Press, 2006.
	Nigel Boyle, Professor of Political Studies, Crafting Change: Labor Market Policy under Mrs Thatcher. New Orleans: University Press of the South, 2005.
	Carmen Fought, Associate Professor of Linguistics, Language and Ethnicity. London: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
	Tom Ilgen, The Jones Foundation Professor of Political Studies, Hard Power, Soft Power and the Future of Transatlantic Relations. Editor. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Press, 2006.
	Brian Keeley, Professor of Philosophy, Paul Churchland. Series: Contemporary Philosophy in Focus. Editor. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
	Ronald Macaulay, Professor of Linguistics Emeritus, The Social Art: Language and its Uses. Second edition. Oxford University Press, 2006.
	Ntongela Masilela, Professor of English and World Literature, The Cultural Modernity of H.I.E. Dhlomo. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2006.
	Peter Nardi, Professor of Sociology, Doing Survey Research (Boston: Allyn & Bacon 2006) and Interpreting Data: A Guide to Understanding Research (Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 2004).
	Thomas Poon, Professor of Chemistry, Introduction to Organic Chemistry. Spanish translation. With W. Brown. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 2006.

Faculty Recognition

Kersey Black (Chemistry), Newton H. Copp (Biology), Gretchen Edwalds-Gilbert (Biology), Scot A. Gould (Physics), K. Purvis-Roberts (Chemistry) were co-PIs on the National Science Foundation Grant for “Increasing Science Graduates Through Interdisciplinary Teaching and Research.” 2005–09 ($498,700).

G. Edwalds-Gilbert (Biology), J. Higdon (Physics), K. Purvis-Roberts (Chemistry) received an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grant for “Enhancement of Environmental Science at the Joint Science Department.” 2005–08 ($285,000).

David Furman (Art) was featured in Who’s Who in American Art, 2006.

Judith V. Grabiner (Mathematics) received the prestigious Lester R. Ford Award from the Mathematical Association of America, for best article(s) in the American Mathematical Monthly, 2005.

Mary Hatcher-Skeers (Chemistry) received an NIH Academic Research Enhancement Award for $170,000. The title of the grant is “Dynamic 31P NMR of Backbone Dynamics in DNA.”

Jim Hoste (Mathematics) was appointed Chair of the Committee on the Profession, American Mathematical Society, 2006–07.

Jesse Lerner (Media Studies) received a Director’s Choice award at the Black Maria Film Festival for his work, “T.S.H.,” 2006.

John Norvell (Anthropology-Visiting) received a Fulbright Faculty Grant for teaching and research in Boa Vista, Brazil, Fall 2006. The title of his project was “Urban Indians and Caboclo Whites: Social Identity in the Brazilian Amazon.”

Dan Segal (Anthropology and History) was the honored lecturer at The Page-Barbour Lectures at the University of Virginia. His series of three lectures was titled, “Modernity and the History Monopoly, or Why We Need Other Histories.”

Peter Nardi (Sociology) was elected president of the Pacific Sociological Association (PSA) for the term beginning April 2005.

Maria Soldatenko (Gender and Feminist Studies and Chicano/a Studies) was elected National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS) Chicana Caucus Chair for 2003–05.

John D. (Jack) Sullivan (Political and Environmental Studies) was elected Legislation Director for the League of Women Voters of California.

Zhaohua Irene Tang (Biology) received two significant grants: an NSF-RUI grant for “Cell-cycle Regulation of LAMMER-related Kinases” from the NSF Program of Signal Transduction/Cell Regulation (2005–08; $340,000) and a NIH AREA grant (2005–07; $197,154).

Andre Wakefield (History) received the Arnold L. and Lois S. Graves Award in the Humanities (ACLS) for “The Edinburgh Synergy.” Edinburgh, Scotland (2006) and the Herzog Ernst Fellowship, Thyssen Foundation, for “Leibniz in the Mines.” Gotha, Germany (2006).

Emily Wiley (Biology) received a National Science Foundation CAREER grant, “Investigating Heterochromatin Assembly through Histone Deactylases.” ($652,630).

Phil Zuckerman (Sociology) was appointed associate editor for the journal Sociology of Religion.

Nationally Recognized Intercultural & Language Education Programs

A Pitzer College student chats with the grandmother of her host family during her Pitzer in Darjeeling study abroad program.

Through the study of language, culture and firsthand experience in communities worldwide, Pitzer’s Study Abroad programs integrate constructive learning with social responsibility. Beginning with the Pitzer in Nepal program in 1974, Pitzer offers programs in Botswana, China, Ecuador, India, Italy, Japan and Costa Rica. Pitzer College offers thirty-five exchange programs in Argentina, Australia, Bulgaria, Canada, Denmark, England, Finland, France, Germany, Ghana, Hungary, Ireland, Japan, Korea, Latvia, Mexico, Morocco, South Africa, Spain, Thailand, Turkey and the United States.

• The majority of graduating seniors in 2006 participated in Study Abroad programs.
• In 2005–06, Pitzer students studied in twenty-seven countries and studied twenty-one languages.
  
• In 2000, Pitzer initiated the first community-based Spanish program in the country. The program integrates intensive classroom instruction with practical learning experiences in the local Spanish-speaking community.
• Pitzer offers individualized instruction in Less Commonly Taught Languages (LCTL’s) before going abroad (Turkish, Finnish, Zulu, and Thai).
• Pitzer’s PACE Program: University and Professional English trains international students in intensive academic English and American studies, and is recognized by the American Association of Intensive English Programs (AAIEP), the Japan Foundation for International Education (JFIE), the Latin American Scholarship Program for American Universities (LASPAU at Harvard), and the Embassy of the United Arab Emirates as one of the most effective language programs in the United States.