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Pitzer College Sets Fulbright Record for Colleges its Size for Fourth Consecutive Year
Fulbright Grants Awarded to Fourteen 2006 Graduates and Four Alumnae Claremont, Calif. (August 21, 2006) – Pitzer College has been awarded a record eighteen Fulbright Fellowships for the 2006-07 academic year. Fourteen 2006 graduates and four alumnae have been awarded Fulbright grants to continue in their fields of study in either a teaching or research
[Read More...]Pitzer College to Host “Interrupted Life: Incarcerated Mothers in the United States”
Exhibit curated by Rickie Solinger, director, WAKEUP/Arts CLAREMONT, Calif. (Aug. 17, 2006) – Pitzer College will host “Interrupted Life,” a traveling public art installation that examines the lives of incarcerated mothers and their families as well as the policies and politics of incarceration in the United States, at the Nichols Gallery Aug. 28-Sept. 29. Curated
[Read More...]Pitzer College Joint Science Department Receives NSF Grant
Funding complements College’s unique interdisciplinary educational approach CLAREMONT, Calif. (Aug. 9, 2006) – Pitzer College’s Joint Science Department recognizes that the most exciting and important problems in science these days, from global warming to unsolved questions about how the brain works, are all intensely interdisciplinary problems. A recent National Science Foundation (NSF) grant of nearly
[Read More...]Claremont’s Donald Gould Joins Pitzer College’s Board of Trustees
Claremont, Calif. (June 29, 2006) – Pitzer College is pleased to announce that Donald Gould has been elected to the Pitzer College Board of Trustees. Gould is President and Chief Investment Officer of Gould Asset Management, a global investment management company. Over Gould’s 25-year career in asset management business, he has established a distinguished track
[Read More...]Pitzer College Sets Fulbright Record for Colleges its Size for Fourth Consecutive Year
Fulbright Grants Awarded to Thirteen 2006 Graduates and Two Alumnae Claremont, Calif. (May 30, 2006) – Pitzer College has been awarded a record fifteen Fulbright Fellowships for the 2006-07 academic year. Thirteen 2006 graduates and two alumnae have been awarded Fulbright grants to continue in their fields of study in either a teaching or research
[Read More...]Pitzer Offers Ethnobotany Lecture Wednesday, April 12
Local Tongva tribal leader Mark Acuña will discuss Pitzer’s Pre-Columbian Garden Claremont, Calif. (April 4, 2006) – Pitzer College is offering a lecture titled “Pre-Columbian Garden: Pitzer’s Hidden Treasure” by local Tongva tribal member and Dance Captain emeritus, Mark Acuña, on the evening of Wednesday, April 12. Acuña is a recognized expert on plant uses
[Read More...]Tom Hayden Kicks Off Redefining Los Angeles Lecture Series
Former California state senator speaks Oct. 12 CLAREMONT, Calif. (Oct. 11, 2005) — Tom Hayden, social activist and former California state senator, will present a talk titled “Los Angeles and the Planet of Slums” as part one of the three-part Redefining Los Angeles lecture series at Pitzer College. Hayden is the author of numerous works,
[Read More...]Pitzer College to Host “Faces of the Fallen”
Exhibition features portraits of armed forces members killed in Iraq CLAREMONT, Calif. (Sept. 26, 2005) — Pitzer College will host “To Never Forget: Faces of the Fallen,” Oct. 7 to Nov. 11 in the Nichols Gallery in the Edythe and Eli Broad Center. The traveling show to date includes 1,483 portraits of American servicemen and
[Read More...]Pitzer Again Named Among Top 50 Colleges for Women
CLAREMONT, Calif. (Sept. 22, 2005) — Pitzer College’s resolve to provide young women with the kind of environment that gives them the best chance of success in college and after graduation was recognized by CosmoGIRL magazine in its second annual guide to the nation’s 50 best colleges. Pitzer joins Amherst College, Duke University, Grinnell College, Pomona College,
[Read More...]Investment Executive to Chair Pitzer College Board of Trustees
Claremont, Calif. (September 16, 2005) — Pitzer College, a member of The Claremont Colleges, is pleased to announce Eugene P. Stein as the new Chair of the Pitzer College Board of Trustees. Stein, Vice Chairman of Capital Guardian Trust Company, a global investment management company, was unanimously elected as Board Chair and will serve a
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