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Pitzer College Names Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist Jeff Gottlieb ’75 as 2014 Distinguished Alumni

Jeff Gottlieb '75Claremont, Calif. (April 21, 2014) — Pitzer College names award-winning investigative reporter Jeffrey Gottlieb ’75 the 2014 Distinguished Alumni Award honoree and sociologist Brianne Davila ’04 as the Young Alumni Achievement Award recipient. Gottlieb and Davila will be honored at a special brunch with Pitzer President Laura Skandera Trombley on Saturday, May 3 at 9 [Read More...]
April 21, 2014
Press Releases | Sagehen Athletics

Sagehen Round Up for the Week of April 14, 2014

Alyssa Woodward ’15Claremont, Calif. (April 21, 2014) — This week in Sagehens Athletics saw heavy drama, with both the Women’s Water Polo and Women’s Lacrosse teams capturing winner-take-all battles for the top seed in the SCIAC Tournament in sudden death overtime on Saturday. The day began with Women’s Water Polo traveling across Sixth Street to face Claremont-Mudd-Scripps. [Read More...]
April 21, 2014
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Pitzer College and Robert Redford Announce Breakthrough Fossil Fuel Divestment-Climate Action Model

Integrated Sustainability Plan Includes Targeted Reinvestment and Accelerated Carbon Footprint Reduction Claremont, Calif. (April 12, 2014) — Pitzer College’s Board of Trustees unanimously approved a new Fossil Fuel Divestment-Climate Action Model during a special trustee meeting on Saturday, April 5. Pitzer College President Laura Skandera Trombley and Trustees Robert Redford and Donald Gould made the [Read More...]
April 12, 2014
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Pitzer College President to Speak at TEDxFulbright in DC

TEDx FulbrightClaremont, Calif. (April 1, 2014) – Pitzer College President Laura Skandera Trombley will speak at TEDxFulbright at 12:30 p.m. on Saturday, April 5 at the US Chamber of Commerce in Washington DC. Trombley, who was appointed by President Barack Obama to the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board in 2013, will present a talk titled [Read More...]
April 1, 2014
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Pitzer College Named Greenest Campus in US

Solar panels on West HallClaremont, Calif. (March 26, 2014) — Pitzer College has been named the greenest campus in the US by Niche. Pitzer was number one out of 1,366 schools on Niche’s March 23 list. Rounding out the top five colleges were University of California, Santa Cruz; American University; University of Colorado, Boulder; and Florida Gulf Coast University. [Read More...]
March 26, 2014