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Press Releases

Pitzer College President Trombley Joins Chronicle of Higher Education/New York Times Higher Education Cabinet

Claremont, Calif. (September 16, 2008)—Pitzer College President Laura Skandera Trombley joined with other leading thinkers in higher education to participate in the inaugural meeting of the The Chronicle of Higher Education/New York Times Higher Education Cabinet, held on September 15. The Cabinet, made up of chancellors, presidents and trustees, convened to discuss the most pressing issues facing [Read More...]
September 16, 2008
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Society without God by Pitzer Associate Professor Phil Zuckerman Published by NYU Press

Claremont, Calif. (September 16, 2008)—Society without God: What the Least Religious Nations Can Tell Us about Contentment by Pitzer College Associate Professor Phil Zuckerman was recently published by NYU Press. Zuckerman observes that while most humans worldwide are vigorously religious, most residents of Denmark and Sweden generally do not worship any god, do not pray and [Read More...]
September 16, 2008
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Pitzer College Named Among Nation’s Best in 2009 Edition of The Princeton Review’s The Best 368 Colleges

(July 29, 2008) – Pitzer College has been named one of the nation’s best colleges and number one in the category of Race/Class Interaction in the 2009 edition The Princeton Review’s The Best 368 Colleges. For undergraduates at Pitzer “progressive learning” and academic flexibility abound. Students tend to be “motivated” and there is a strong sense [Read More...]
July 29, 2008
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Pitzer College Student Athletes Recognized for 2008-09 Season

Claremont, Calif (April 21, 2009)—Pitzer College congratulates seniors Brandon Huerta, Madeline Kieselhorst, Angie Martinez, Jeremy Namkung and Andrew Russell, recognized at the 2008-09 Student Athlete Awards on April 15. The Daley Award for Athletic Achievement was presented to Madeline Kieselhorst and Jeremy Namkung. Kieselhorst was named to the 2008 All Academic Cross Country Team by [Read More...]
April 21, 2008
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Pitzer College Students Recognized in 2009 Harvard Model United Nations Conference

Claremont, Calif (April 21, 2009) – Pitzer College congratulates Sol Estin ’10, Eleanor Green ’11, Alec Lentz ’09 and Caroline Martin ’12, recognized at the 2009 Harvard Model United Nations Conference for their representation of Zimbabwe. Estin received an Outstanding Delegation award for his participation on the World Health Organization committee while Lentz picked up [Read More...]
April 21, 2008
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Emerging Artist Lizabeth Eva Rossof ’95 “I Witness” on Display at Lenzner Art Gallery

Claremont, Calif. (December 20, 2007) Pitzer alumna Lizabeth Eva Rossof ’95, who was featured in Takashi Murakami’s 2007 selection of emerging artists in GEISAI, Miami creates experimental art that is playfully provocative and visually arresting and includes collaborative performance, public intervention and site-specific installations. Rossof engages a wider audience in her ongoing dialogue on social, political and environmental [Read More...]
December 20, 2007