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Pitzer College Named a Top Producer of US Student Fulbright Fellows

2016-17 Fulbright U.S. Student Top ProducerClaremont, Calif. (February 27, 2017)—For the ninth year, Pitzer College has been named a top producer of US Fulbright students among bachelor’s institutions by The Chronicle of Higher Education. The Chronicle annually highlights top-producing institutions based on information provided by the US Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Pitzer’s fifteen 2016-17 student [Read More...]
February 27, 2017
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Pitzer’s Maddie Kauahi ’19 Wins 100 Free as Sagehens Take 2nd at SCIAC Swim & Dive Championships

Maddie Kauahi, SCIAC Female Athlete of the WeekClaremont, Calif. (February 20, 2017)—Pitzer College sophomore Maddie Kauahi ’19 won the 100-yard freestyle with the fastest SCIAC time of the year on the final day of the SCIAC 2017 Swimming and Diving Championships. Both the Sagehens men’s and women’s teams came in second at the SCIAC Championships behind Claremont-Mudd-Scripps. The Sagehens Men’s Swimming and Diving [Read More...]
February 20, 2017
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Professor Harmony O’Rourke’s New Book Explores Diaspora, Gender and Identity in Cameroon

Claremont, Calif. (February 17, 2017)—Professor Harmony O’Rourke’s new book, Hadija’s Story: Diaspora, Gender, and Belonging in the Cameroon Grassfields, is the tale of one woman’s search for freedom and an exploration of the complex issues surrounding marriage, slavery and identity for Muslim Hausa migrants in Cameroon. O’Rourke is an associate professor of history at Pitzer [Read More...]
February 17, 2017
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Two Pitzer Professors, Two Countries, One Treasure Trove of Data

Claremont, Calif. (February 15, 2017)—Pitzer Professors Barbara and Azamat Junisbai’s research paper, “Two Countries, Five Years: Islam in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan through the Lens of Public Opinion Surveys,” has just been published in Central Asian Affairs, a peer-reviewed journal that features innovative social science research on contemporary developments in Central Asia. The husband-and-wife research team, [Read More...]
February 15, 2017
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Professor Rudi Volti’s Book Society and Technological Change, Version 8.0

Society and Technological Change - Rudi VoltiClaremont, Calif. (February 9, 2017)—The first edition of Pitzer College Professor Emeritus Rudi Volti’s book, Society and Technological Change, was published in 1988, a time when—in the author’s words— “tweets were something birds did, and Mark Zuckerberg had not yet entered kindergarten.” Nearly 30 years later, Worth Publishers has issued the eighth edition of Volti’s [Read More...]
February 9, 2017
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Drone Research Documents Reforestation at Pitzer’s Firestone Center in Costa Rica

Claremont, Calif. (February 8, 2017)—Professor of Biology and Environmental Science Donald McFarlane has released data from a collaborative research project that used aerial drones to measure rates of reforestation at Pitzer College’s Firestone Center for Restoration Ecology in Costa Rica. The data, published in the article “UAV data for multi-temporal Landsat analysis of historic reforestation: a [Read More...]
February 8, 2017
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Pitzer College Faculty Art Show Explores Art and Environmentalism

Claremont, Calif. (January 26, 2017)—The Pitzer College Faculty Art Show examines the legacy of the College’s Art Field Group and the art faculty’s ongoing dedication to progressive ideas surrounding art, the natural and built environment, and the impact of human actions—and interactions. Works by Pitzer’s current art professors—Tim Berg, Sarah Gilbert, Tarrah Krajnak and Jessica [Read More...]
January 26, 2017