Coro Fellowship

Sara Farooqi '08 has been awarded a prestigious Coro Fellowship in Public Affairs for Pittsburgh. Farooqi, a double major in sociology and Islamic Cultural Studies, is one of only sixty-eight fellows in the country selected this year. Coro Fellows in Public Affairs are provided experiential leadership training in public affairs. Much like Pitzer's educational objective of social responsibility, the Coro Fellowship in Public Affairs is designed to prepare recent graduates to “translate their ideals into action for improving their own communities.”

Kemper Scholarship

Asia Bennett '11 has been awarded a Kemper Scholarship by the James S. Kemper Foundation. A double major in political economy and Science and Critical Reasoning (self-designed), Bennett will spend her sophomore and junior summers completing internships with nonprofit organizations. The Kemper Scholars Program encourages liberal arts students to prepare for careers in business and administration. Bennett is the College's fifth student to be named a Kemper Scholar.

Jack Kent Cooke Scholar

In the fall of 2008, Ruth Arviso will begin working toward a PhD in psychology at the New School for Social Research in New York. Ruth, a non-traditional age student, majored in Organizational Studies and Political Psychology (Honors) at Pitzer.

The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation is a private, independent foundation established in 2000 through the will of Jack Kent Cooke. When he passed away in 1997, Mr. Cooke left most of his fortune to establish the Foundation.

Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarships

Milan Burke '08, Leah Newman '08 and alumnus Patrick Leue '06

Milan Burke '08, Leah Newman '08 and alumnus Patrick Leue '06 have been awarded Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarships. Burke’s 2008-09 scholarship, granted by the Rotary Club of Windward Oahu, will take her to Malmö University in Sweden where she will pursue a master’s degree in international relations or immigration and ethnic relations. Newman has received a 2009-10 scholarship granted by the Rotary Club of Rancho Cucamonga, California. She will pursue a master’s program in economic development in either Mauritius, Ghana or India. She will also assist the local Rotary Club with community service projects and create her own projects based on the community’s needs. With his 2009-10 scholarship granted by the Rotary Club of Oakland, Leue will travel to Senegal to study French as well as the Senegalese language Wolof. In addition to his studies, he will research urban permaculture and how teaching Senegalese natives to cultivate their own gardens can help combat the country’s paucity of food.

McNair Scholarships

Left to right: Fernando Calderon '09, Brittany Dávila '10, Christian Lopez '10, Liliana Sanchez '09 and Elizabeth Williams '10.

Fernando Calderon '09, Brittany Dávila '10, Christian Lopez '10, Liliana Sanchez '09 and Elizabeth Williams '10 have been awarded McNair Scholarships that will help prepare them for doctoral studies through involvement in research and other scholarly activities. The McNair Scholars Program was created in honor of Ronald E. McNair, an African American engineer, scientist and astronaut whose life tragically ended in 1986 while aboard NASA’s space shuttle Challenger. The scholarship award includes a six-week summer session at Claremont Graduate University and a stipend.

European Union Center of California Scholarships

Alexandra Carswell Engle '09, Samuel Jubelirer '09, Yigit Canay '09 and Christopher Castaneda '08 have been awarded paid scholarships/ internships to Europe this summer by the European Union Center of California.

Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine Fellow

Mariko Ferronato '07 has received a prestigious Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine (OMM) Fellowship through the College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific.

A human biology major at Pitzer College, Ferronato was also a part of Pitzer's seven-year linkage program with Western University's College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific. In this program students study full-time for three years at Pitzer, and then go on to Western University's medical school for another four before earning degrees as Doctors of Osteopathic Medicine (DOs).

Public Policy & International Affairs Fellowships

Kevin Shih '09 has been awarded a Public Policy and International Affairs Fellowship at the University of Michigan for this summer. In addition, Shatara Ford '09 was selected to attend Carnegie Mellon University's Junior Summer Institute in Public Policy and International Affairs.

Neuroscience Fellowships

Allison Sargoy '09 and Aimee Zisner '10

Allison Sargoy '09 will be working with Aplysia californica (sea slugs), found locally off the coast, in Dr. David Glanzman's Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Learning and Memory Lab at UCLA. She will be looking at AMPA-type glutamate and NMDA-type glutamate receptors that facilitate learning and memory. This type of research can be applied to Alzheimer's Disease, as it is currently thought that AD is caused by downscaling (a reduction) of AMPA receptors.

Aimee Zisner '10 will be working in Dr. Katherine Narr's neuroimaging lab at UCLA for ten weeks. The lab has two permanent research assistants and is a part of a larger division called LONI, or the Laboratory of Neuroimaging. The majority of Dr. Narr's current projects investigate structural abnormalities of schizophrenics, as determined by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) techniques. Aimee will be involved in the data analysis of the brain scans, scanning participants and will even undergo a scan of her own brain. Additionally, she will be participating in several small projects (i.e. tracing hippocampi) that should be completed by the end of the summer.

Left to right: Mary Muñoz '10, Claudia Sandoval '10 and Sappho Su '10

Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarships

Mary Muñoz '10, Claudia Sandoval '10 and Sappho Su '10 have been awarded Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarships for Fall 2008. Muñoz, a Political Studies major, will participate in the Pitzer in China program. Sandoval, a sociology major and Spanish minor, will study abroad in South Africa. Majoring in Chinese, Su is headed to China with the support of the Gilman Scholarship and has also received a Freeman Award for Study in Asia and a Fulbright-Hays Scholarship.