2015-16

Press Releases

Pitzer College Announces 2016 Alumni Award Winners

Claremont, Calif. (April 18, 2016)—Pitzer College has named public education reformer Amy Rosen ’76 its 2016 Distinguished Alumni Award honoree and community leader Betty Avila ’08 its 2016 Young Alumni Achievement Award recipient. They will be honored at a reception on Friday, April 22, from 7 to 8:30 p.m., at the Pitzer College President’s Residence. Each [Read More...]
April 19, 2016
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Pitzer Student Jenna Loesberg ’18 Will Delve Deep into Conservation Work as a Doris Duke Scholar

Claremont, Calif. (April 18, 2016)—Pitzer College student Jenna Loesberg ’18 has been selected as a Doris Duke Conservation Scholar as part of the Landscape Conservation Initiative at Northern Arizona University (NAU). NAU’s two-year program is funded by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. The Doris Duke Conservation Scholar program creates opportunities for college students to study conservation [Read More...]
April 18, 2016
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Pitzer Professor David S. Moore Heads to Washington DC, to Help Advance Scientific Research in the Developmental Sciences

Claremont, Calif. (April 15, 2016)—The National Science Foundation (NSF) has tapped Pitzer Professor of Psychology David S. Moore as the new Program Director for its Developmental and Learning Sciences Program. His one- to three-year appointment begins this July. As the program director for NSF’s Developmental and Learning Sciences (DLS) Program, one of Moore’s many responsibilities [Read More...]
April 15, 2016
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Pitzer College Announces 15 Student Fulbright Winners

Claremont, Calif. (April 21, 2016)—Pitzer College congratulates its graduating seniors and alumna who have been awarded 2016-17 Fulbright US Student Program fellowships so far this year: Amanda Chang ’16, Ciera Fleming ’16, Nicola Ying Fry ’16, Hannah Leib ’16, Amanda Leon ’16, Jennifer Lowe ’12, Nina Matsumoto ’16, Sarah Norise ’16, Christopher Norwood ’16, Fiona Nugent [Read More...]
April 13, 2016
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Pitzer College to open “CASA Ontario,” a synergetic community space for social collaboration in the Inland Valley

Claremont, Calif. (April 12, 2016) — This year Pitzer College celebrates 20 years of community work in Ontario and the Inland Empire through its Pitzer in Ontario Program (PIO), founded in 1996. PIO is a unique program nationwide and represents an innovative educational model that involves students in hands-on and academic work with change-oriented and [Read More...]
April 12, 2016
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Pitzer Student Adriana Ceron ’18 Selected as 2016 Mellon Mays Fellow

Claremont, Calif. (April 8, 2016)—Pitzer College student Adriana Ceron ’18 has named a 2016 Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship (MMUF) program fellow. An initiative of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, MMUF aims to increase faculty diversity by supporting underrepresented students who want to pursue careers as professors. Ceron, a sociology major and Chicano/a-Latino/a studies minor, is [Read More...]
April 8, 2016
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Pitzer Student Eli Erlick ’17 to Found Trans Youth Leadership Program with Davis Projects for Peace Award

Claremont, Calif. (April 6, 2016)—Pitzer College student Eli Erlick ’17 has been awarded $10,000 by Davis Projects for Peace to establish the Trans Youth Leadership Summit, a Los Angeles-based leadership institute for young transgender people. Erlick’s initiative is one of 120 proposals from across the country selected for the award, which supports college students who [Read More...]
April 6, 2016
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Design Innovator Frederick S. Leichter Will Lead New Claremont Colleges’ Center for Collaborative Creativity

Claremont, Calif. (April 1, 2016) — Bringing dynamic experience in fields ranging from higher education to technology, Frederick S. Leichter, a key design innovator and executive for Fidelity Investments, has been selected as the founding director of The Claremont Colleges’ Rick and Susan Sontag Center for Collaborative Creativity. Known as “the Hive,” the center officially [Read More...]
April 1, 2016
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Pitzer College Art Galleries and LACE Plan Exhibition on Artist Juan Downey with Getty Pacific Standard Time Grant

Performance view of “Energy Fields” at 112 Greene Street, New York (1972) Performers included: Carmen Beuchat, Caroline Gooden, Suzanne Harris, Rachel Lew, Barbara Lloyd (Dilley), Gordon Matta-Clark, Judith Padow, Gerald Schieber and Juan Downey. Documentation photograph, 8 x 10 in. (21 x 26 cm.) The Estate of Juan Downey, New YorkClaremont, Calif. (March 31, 2016)—Pitzer College Art Galleries and Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE) will mount Juan Downey: Radiant Nature, a two-part exhibition on the early performance-based works of Chilean-born artist Juan Downey as part of Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, an initiative of the Getty, in which arts institutions across Southern California will join together [Read More...]
March 31, 2016