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Pitzer Professor Roberta Espinoza Recognized for Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives at the 7Cs

Claremont, Calif. (March 24, 2016)—The Claremont 7Cs Diversity Working Group has awarded Pitzer College Professor Roberta Espinoza its inaugural Claremont Colleges Diversity Teaching Award. The award honors innovative activities and programs that address issues related to diversity and inclusion in higher education. Espinoza will be recognized at a Claremont Colleges Consortium-wide event on Friday, April [Read More...]
March 24, 2016
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Pitzer Professor Awarded Prestigious Fellowship to Help Shape Asian-Pacific Environmental Policies with US State Department

Claremont, Calif. (March 10, 2016)—Pitzer College Professor Kathleen Purvis-Roberts has been awarded a 2016-17 Jefferson Science Fellowship (JSF), a program run by the National Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine. One of only 12 academic scientists, engineers and physicians from US institutions of higher learning to be selected this year, Purvis-Roberts will work at the [Read More...]
March 10, 2016
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Pitzer Professor Harmony O’Rourke Honored with Graves Award for Outstanding Teaching

Claremont, Calif. (March 2, 2016)—Pitzer College Assistant Professor of History Harmony O’Rourke has received a 2015-17 Arnold L. Graves and Lois S. Graves Award in the Humanities. The biannual award, administered by Pomona College in conjunction with the American Council of Learned Societies, encourages and rewards outstanding teaching in the humanities by younger faculty members. [Read More...]
March 2, 2016
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Pitzer Professor Phil Zuckerman’s New Book Surveys the Science of Secularity

The Nonreligious: Understanding Secular People and SocietiesClaremont, Calif. (February 11, 2016)—Pitzer College Professor of Sociology and Secular Studies Phil Zuckerman’s eleventh book, The Nonreligious: Understanding Secular People and Societies, is the first comprehensive compilation of research on the nonreligious. Co-written with Luke W. Galen and Frank L. Pasquale, The Nonreligious will be published by Oxford University Press on March 1. With studies [Read More...]
February 11, 2016
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American Humanist Association Presents University Humanist Award to Pitzer College

Claremont, Calif. (February 11, 2016)—The American Humanist Association (AHA) will present the 2016 University Award for Philosophical Diversity to Pitzer College. The award ceremony will be held on Monday, February 15, 2016, at Pitzer’s Stein Atrium. Roy Speckhardt, executive director of the AHA will present the award to Professor Phil Zuckerman, founder of Pitzer’s secular [Read More...]
February 11, 2016
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Professor Suyapa Portillo Villeda Elected to Modern Language Association Executive Committee

Claremont, Calif. (January 25, 2016)—Pitzer College Assistant Professor of Chicano/a-Latino/a Transnational Studies Suyapa Portillo Villeda has been elected to the executive committee for the Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies (CLCS) Hemispheric American Forum of the Modern Language Association (MLA). Her five-year term on the committee began on January 11. The Modern Language Association is a [Read More...]
January 25, 2016
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Professor Muriel Poston to Lead Education Section of American Association for the Advancement of Science

Claremont, Calif. (January 19, 2016)—Pitzer College Professor of Environmental Analysis Muriel Poston has been elected chair of the education section of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). The association named Poston an AAAS Fellow in 2013 in recognition of her efforts to improve and expand undergraduate science education. She will assume her [Read More...]
January 19, 2016
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Professor Kathleen Yep Honored with Mayor’s Award for Promoting Literacy in LA Community

Claremont, Calif. (December 8, 2015)—The City of Monterey Park honored Pitzer College Professor of Asian American Studies Kathleen Yep with the Mayor’s Centennial Volunteer Award for the partnership she created between her Asian American Studies classes and the adult literacy program at the city’s public library.  During the awards presentation on November 17, 2015, Monterey [Read More...]
December 8, 2015
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Remembering Professor Harvey Botwin

From Interim President Thomas Poon November 16, 2015 Dear Pitzer College Community, It is with a very heavy heart that I share with you the news of Professor Emeritus of Economics Harvey Botwin’s passing. Harvey joined Pitzer in 1967 as the first economics faculty member—and the only one for his first four years at the [Read More...]
November 17, 2015