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Pitzer College Dean of Faculty and a Professor Emeritus Named American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellows

Muriel PostonClaremont, Calif. ( November 25, 2013)—Pitzer College Dean of Faculty and Vice President for Academic Affairs Muriel Poston and Professor Emeritus of Philosophy James Bogen have been named American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) fellows. This year’s AAAS fellows will be presented with a certificate and rosette pin on February 15 during the [Read More...]
November 26, 2013
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Pitzer College Hosts Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board’s First Visit to Southern California

Claremont, Calif. (November 15, 2013) – Pitzer College, the nation’s top producer of Fulbright students, will host the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board‘s first visit to Southern California November 17 to 19 for its quarterly meeting. Pitzer College, the Fulbright Board and the Los Angeles World Affairs Council will co-host events that spotlight the [Read More...]
November 15, 2013
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From a Museum of Peace, Images of Nepal’s Civil War

Claremont, Calif. (November 5, 2013) — Pitzer College presents Nepal’s Civil War: a post-conflict photographic retrospective, an exhibition that has traveled to Claremont from Kathmandu. The photographs from this exhibit are drawn from a larger collection, Frames of War, created by publisher, editor and broadcaster Kunda Dixit for the Nepal Peace Museum. The exhibition will [Read More...]
November 5, 2013
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Pitzer Secular Studies Professor Phil Zuckerman Goes to Church to Debate Role of Religion

Phil ZuckermanClaremont, Calif. (October 26, 2013)—Pitzer Professor of Sociology Phil Zuckerman debated the question, “Does Christianity or secular humanism provide a better foundation for civil society?” at Adventure Christian Church in Roseville, CA on October 12. Billed as The Great Debate, the event was part of the church’s speaking series titled Courageous. Zuckerman, who created Pitzer’s [Read More...]
October 26, 2013
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Pitzer Professor Discusses Liberal Arts Colleges in a National Context

William BarndtClaremont, Calif. (October 23, 2013)—Pitzer College Assistant Professor of Political Studies William Barndt will explore why liberal arts colleges increasingly describe themselves as national institutions in his talk, “How To Get a Job Anywhere: The Nationalization of Our Liberal Arts Colleges” at Claremont McKenna College’s Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum on Friday, October 25. Barndt’s talk [Read More...]
October 23, 2013
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Pitzer College Professor Launches First Global Distributed Open Collaborative Course

Claremont, Calif. (September 04, 2013)— Pitzer College Professor of Media Studies Alexandra Juhasz spearheads “Feminist Dialogues on Technology,” a new model for online learning called a DOCC (Distributed Open Collaborative Course) this fall. She is the co-facilitator of FemTechNet, a network of international scholars and educators at 15 higher education institutions, who are bringing education [Read More...]
September 4, 2013
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Lots in Translation: Professor Phil Zuckerman’s books hit international bookshelves

(Claremont, Calif.) August 20, 2013– Pitzer College Professor of Sociology Phil Zuckerman’s book, Society without God, an ethnographic portrait of secularity in Denmark and Sweden, has been translated into Danish, Korean and Italian while Invitation to the Sociology of Religion, an introduction to the sociology of religion, has appeared in Chinese, Farsi and Turkish. Zuckerman’s [Read More...]
August 20, 2013
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Pitzer Professor and Students Study Paleontological Treasures in China

Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and PaleoanthropologyClaremont, Calif. (August 16, 2013)—Pitzer College Assistant Professor of Biology Lars Schmitz and students Patrick Niedermeyer ’15 and Chloe Shih ’15 will spend a week studying the fossils of prehistoric creatures in collections at Peking University and the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing, China. “These museums have some of the most complete [Read More...]
August 16, 2013