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Sagehen Women’s Water Polo Wins Third Consecutive SCIAC Championship and Most Valuable Player

Claremont, Calif. (May 5, 2010)—Pitzer College congratulates Tamara Perea ’11 and the entire women’s water polo team for the third consecutive Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC) Championship. Perea was also named Most Valuable Player. The Sagehens defeated California Institute of Technology, Claremont-McKenna-Scripps and Occidental College, with an over all 9-1 SCIAC win/loss record, to [Read More...]
May 5, 2010
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Pitzer College Student Awarded Rotary International Ambassadorial Scholarship

Claremont, Calif. (May 4, 2010) — Pitzer College congratulates Solamon Estin ’10, recipient of a Rotary International Ambassadorial Scholarship. Estin, who double majors in political economy and Latin American studies, will spend 2011-12 studying in Nicaragua. He also received a 2010 Fulbright Fellowship to Columbia. The purpose of the Ambassadorial Scholarships program is to further [Read More...]
May 4, 2010
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Claremont Rugby Team Wins Division II National Championships

Claremont, Calif. ( May 4, 2010) — Pitzer College congratulates Morgan Bennett ’13, Ben Eachus ’11, Alexandre Ferre ’11, Spencer Harrison ’12, Richard McKinney ’10, Max Reed ’11, Stephan Shortall ’10, Matthew Solimano ’10, Timothy Stapenhorst ’12, Noah Taubman ’10 and the entire Claremont Rugby team for capturing the Division II National Championships. The Claremont [Read More...]
May 4, 2010
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Pitzer College Alumnus Awarded Journal of Biomolecular Screening Academic Excellence Award

Claremont, Calif. (May 3, 2010) – Pitzer College alumnus Sam Hasson ’03 was awarded the Journal of Biomolecular Screening Academic Excellence Award by the Society for Biomolecular Sciences (SBS) for his presentation “Developing New Chemical Tools to Study Mitachondrial Protein Translocation.” Hasson, a molecular biology major at Pitzer, is currently pursuing a PhD in biochemistry [Read More...]
May 3, 2010
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Pitzer College Wins Four 2010 Hermes Creative Awards

Claremont, Calif. (April 29, 2010) — Pitzer College received four 2010 Hermes Creative Awards. The Fall 2009 Participant, designed by Stephanie Guerra Estrada, received a Platinum Award in the Publications/Magazine category. The Pitzer Web site home page, designed by a web design committee and programmed by Laurie Babcock and Joseph Dickson, won a Gold Award in [Read More...]
April 29, 2010
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Emeritus Professor’s Book Now Available in Chinese Edition

Claremont, Calif. (April 29, 2010) – Emeritus Professor Peter Nardi’s book, Interpreting Data: A Guide to Understanding Research, is now available in a Chinese edition, co-published by Pearson and Chongqing University Press. Nardi taught sociology at Pitzer College. Written in non-technical, everyday language, this supplementary text is a quick guide to understanding data. Readers learn to work [Read More...]
April 29, 2010
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Pitzer College Student Awarded a Kemper Scholarship

Claremont, Calif. (April 28, 2010) — Pitzer College congratulates Kari Todd ’12, recipient of a 2010 Kemper Scholarship. Todd, who double majors in international relations and business, plans to study abroad with Pitzer in Nepal next spring. She will attend the Kemper Foundation’s annual conference this fall to discuss summer projects and meet other scholars. [Read More...]
April 28, 2010
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Pitzer College Seniors Win Japan Exchange and Teaching Program Awards

Claremont, Calif. (April 27, 2010) — Pitzer College congratulates 2010 Japan Exchange and Teaching Program (JET) awardees, Taylor Aston-Nielsen ’10, Misa Kabashima ’10 and Sean Sullivan ’10. Aston-Nielsen, a double major in economics and political studies, studied abroad in Ecuador and England. Kabashima, a double major in French and history, studied abroad in France and [Read More...]
April 27, 2010