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Sagehen Round Up for the Week of October 24, 2011
Claremont, Calif. (October 31, 2011) — Pitzer student-athletes once again had key roles this week, particularly in a 5-1 women’s soccer win over Whittier on Saturday, which enabled the Sagehens to tie for second in the final regular season standings and pick up their tenth win of the season, as Pitzer players combined for four
[Read More...] October 31, 2011
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Kiplinger’s Personal Finance names Pitzer College a 2011 Best Value Liberal Arts College
Claremont, Calif. (October 25, 2011) — Pitzer College has been ranked #50 in the 2011 “Best Values in Private Colleges” by Kiplinger’s Personal Finance. The report ranked the schools based on outstanding academics and great economic value. Pitzer College placed in the top 200 because of a high four-year graduation rate, low average student debt
[Read More...] October 25, 2011
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Sagehen Round Up for the Week of October 17
Claremont, Calif. (October 24, 2011) — It was a big weekend for Sagehen Soccer, as both the Men’s Soccer and Women’s Soccer teams picked up huge 1-0 wins over Occidental on Saturday. The Men’s Soccer team clinched a SCIAC Tournament bid with its win, while the Women’s Soccer team now needs just one tie in
[Read More...] October 24, 2011
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Pitzer College #1 in Nation for Most Fulbright Scholarship Awardees by Chronicle of Higher Education
Claremont, Calif. (October 24, 2011) — For the second consecutive year, The Chronicle of Higher Education has ranked Pitzer College as the top producer of Fulbright students among all US liberal arts colleges in the “bachelor’s institution” category. This is the eighth year Pitzer College has been the national leader in Fulbright Fellowships per thousand
[Read More...] October 24, 2011
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Sagehen Round Up for the Week of October 10, 2011
Claremont, Calif. (October 17, 2011) — Pitzer College student-athletes continued to have key roles in helping Sagehen athletics to a strong fall season. In fact, the current leading scorers on the Men’s Soccer, Women’s Soccer and Men’s Water Polo teams, as well as the leading hitter on the Volleyball team, are all from Pitzer. Traci
[Read More...] October 17, 2011
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Research Paper by Alumnus Garrett Blake ’10 and W.M. Keck Science Professor Anna Wenzel to be Presented at American Chemical Society
Claremont, Calif. (October 14, 2011) — Assistant Professor Anna Wenzel will present “Mechanistic Studies on the Olefin Metathesis Reaction,” a paper co-authored with Pitzer College alumnus Garrett Blake ’10, at the American Chemical Society Regional Meeting in Pasadena, CA on November 10. Wenzel teaches chemistry at Pitzer College’s W.M. Keck Science Department. Wenzel’s presentation will
[Read More...] October 14, 2011
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Pitzer College Professor Carina Johnson Authors New Book
Claremont, Calif. (October 10, 2011) — Pitzer College Associate Professor Carina Johnson has authored Cultural Hierarchy in Sixteenth-Century Europe: The Ottomans and Mexicans published by Cambridge University Press. Johnson teaches history at Pitzer College. The book argues that sixteenth-century European encounters with the newly discovered Mexicans (in the Aztec Empire) and the newly dominant Ottoman
[Read More...] October 10, 2011
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Pitzer College Professor Phil Zuckerman Authors New Book
Claremont, Calif. (October 4, 2011)— Pitzer College Professor Phil Zuckerman has authored Faith No More, published by Oxford University Press and available November 1, 2011. During his 2009 inaugural speech, President Obama described the United States as a nation of “Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus–and nonbelievers.” It was the first time an American president
[Read More...] October 4, 2011
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Pitzer College Professor Phil Zuckerman Authors New Book Faith No More
Claremont, Calif. (October 4, 2011)— Pitzer College Professor Phil Zuckerman has authored Faith No More, published by Oxford University Press and available November 1, 2011. During his 2009 inaugural speech, President Obama described the United States as a nation of “Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus–and nonbelievers.” It was the first time an American president
[Read More...] October 4, 2011
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Sagehen Round Up for the Week of October 3, 2011
Claremont, Calif. (October 3, 2011) — Jason Cox ’13 and Stephen Vint ’15 had key roles in helping the Pitzer-Pomona Men’s Water Polo team to a 3-1 weekend at the Claremont Convergence. Cox and Vint each had four goals to tie for the team lead in a 17-14 overtime win over Chapman on Friday. Goalie
[Read More...] October 3, 2011