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Pitzer College Students Recognized for Outstanding Athletic Achievements
Claremont, Calif (April 25, 2014) — Pitzer College congratulates Kyle Dalrymple ’17, Kaitlin Jones ’14, Jana London ’14 and Christopher Wiechert ’14, whose outstanding performance on the field, in the pool and on the court were recognized at the 2013-14 Student Athlete Awards dinner on April 21 at Pitzer College. Dalrymple won the Daley Award
[Read More...]Pitzer College Names Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist Jeff Gottlieb ’75 as 2014 Distinguished Alumni
Claremont, 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...]Sagehen Round Up for the Week of April 14, 2014
Claremont, 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...]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...]Sagehen Round Up for the Week of March 31, 2014
Claremont, Calif. (April 7, 2014) — This week in Sagehens Athletics saw Women’s Lacrosse begin the second half of SCIAC play with a statement win, and the Baseball team earn a milestone win for its head coach. Women’s Lacrosse traveled across the street to face CMS to start the second half of SCIAC play and
[Read More...]Pitzer College President to Speak at TEDxFulbright in DC
Claremont, 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...]Sagehen Round Up for the Week of March 24, 2014
Claremont, Calif. (March 31, 2014) — This week in Sagehens Athletics saw Women’s Lacrosse sweep three non-conference games, and three Pitzer runners for the Men’s Track and Field team take first place at a SCIAC Quad meet with Occidental. Women’s Lacrosse finished off a 7-1 month of March by sweeping DePauw, Carthage and North Central
[Read More...]Pitzer College Art Professor Tim Berg Receives Center for Cultural Innovation Grant
Claremont, Calif. (March 27, 2014) — Pitzer College Associate Professor of Art Timothy Berg is one of 11 Los Angeles County artists to be awarded in the Center for Cultural Innovation’s first round of 2014 Artists’ Resource for Completion (ARC) grants. The grant supports the creation of a new sculpture by Berg and his wife
[Read More...]Pitzer College Named Greenest Campus in US
Claremont, 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...]Pitzer College Hosts Talk on the 2014 World Cup, Globalization and National Identity
Claremont, Calif. (March 25, 2014) — Pitzer College presents “Brazil 2014: The First Post-Nationalist World Cup?,” a talk by Financial Times columnist Simon Kuper, on Tuesday, April 8 at 9:40 a.m. in Pitzer’s George C.S. Benson Auditorium. “Brazil 2014” is the second lecture in a series of events at Pitzer College about the World Cup.
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