2021-22

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Pitzer College Art Galleries Presents 2022 Senior Thesis Exhibition: Shift + Ground

Pitzer College Art Galleries presents the work of Pitzer seniors Jack Contreras ’22, Lily Fillwalk ’22, Claire Manning ’22, Olivia Meehan ’22, Max Otake ’22, Julia Duran Stewart ’22, and Zoe Storz ’22 in the 2022 Senior Thesis Exhibition: Shift + Ground. The exhibition will be in Pitzer College’s Nichols Gallery, Lenzner Family Art Gallery, Scott Hall, and the Academic Quad from April 28 to May 14. An in-person opening reception to celebrate the exhibition will take place on Thursday, April 28, at 5:30 p.m., at the Grove House.
April 27, 2022
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Pitzer College Announces 14 Student Fulbright Recipients

Pitzer College Tree from logoEleven Pitzer College seniors and one Class of 2021 graduate have been offered 2022–23 Fulbright Fellowships so far this year. Seven of the recipients will teach English in countries ranging from Mexico to Taiwan. The other five recipients will conduct research around the globe. Their self-designed projects include examining the possibility of measles elimination through self-vaccination in remote boat communities in Cambodia and environmental stress on cells at the University of Warsaw in Poland. One recipient, Kenneth Butler, who earned credits toward his Pitzer degree as an incarcerated student in Inside-Out courses, will study rehabilitation and reintegration in the Ugandan prison system.
April 27, 2022
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Pitzer Senior Kenneth Butler ’22 Earns Fulbright Fellowship to Uganda after Serving 15 Years in Prison

Kenneth Butler '22Pitzer College student Kenneth Butler ’22, who pursued his Pitzer degree through Inside-Out courses while incarcerated in a medium-security prison, has been awarded a 2022-23 Fulbright US Student Program grant to study the lives of men released from a maximum-security prison in Uganda. Butler, one of the College’s 12 Fulbright awardees so far this year, is the first formerly incarcerated student from Pitzer to win a Fulbright. Butler served 15 years before being paroled in June 2021.
April 27, 2022
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The Justice Education Initiative at The Claremont Colleges Holds Its First Academic Conference at Pitzer College

The Justice Education Initiative at The Claremont Colleges will hold its inaugural conference, Inside Perspectives Guiding Outside Action, both in person at Pitzer College and virtually on April 28 and April 29. Planned and organized by currently and formerly incarcerated students, the conference aims to amplify the voices of those directly impacted by the criminal legal system, while highlighting the importance of higher education, healing, peace and reconciliation, advocacy, and abolition.
April 26, 2022
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The Princeton Review Ranks Pitzer #1 for Making an Impact

The Princeton Review has ranked Pitzer College as #1 among the Top 20 Best Schools for Making an Impact (Private Schools) on the Best Value Colleges 2022 rankings. The Making an Impact rankings were based on student survey responses to questions about community service opportunities, student government, sustainability efforts, and on-campus student engagement.
April 26, 2022
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Three Pitzer College Students Earn Critical Language Scholarships

Ariel Kivela has long straight brown hair and wears a black shirt.Three Pitzer College students have been accepted into the Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program to study Mandarin Chinese. A program of the US Department of State, CLS is a summer study abroad opportunity for American college and university students to learn languages essential to America’s engagement with the world.
April 22, 2022
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Pitzer Student Namlhun Jachung ’24 Earns SCIAC Water Polo Newcomer of the Year

Namlhum Jachung '24Pitzer College first-year student Namlhun Jachung ’25 earned SCIAC Newcomer of the Year as the Pomona-Pitzer Women's Water Polo team dominated All-Conference Awards with five First Team All-SCIAC selections. Other major award winners included Zosia Amberger (PO’25), who won SCIAC Defensive Athlete of the Year, and Alex Rodriguez, who earned SCIAC Coaching Staff of the Year.
April 22, 2022
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Professor Alicia D. Bonaparte Speaks about Birth Justice at UCSF Reproductive Health Program

Pitzer College Associate Professor of Sociology Alicia D. Bonaparte will deliver a virtual talk, “Black Birth ≠ Black Maternal Mortality: Using Birth Justice to Resist Pathology Narratives about Black Birthing Experiences,” for the Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH) on Thursday, April 21. Based at the University of California, San Francisco, ANSIRH is a research program that informs the most pressing debates on reproductive health, rights, and access.
April 20, 2022