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Pitzer College Scholarship Honors Legacy of Former Head of Office of Admission
Claremont, Calif. (September 28, 2012) — Pitzer College has established the Arnaldo Rodriguez Scholarship to honor the College’s former vice president of admission and financial aid for his 14 years of service. The need-based, four-year scholarship is awarded to top-performing students of Latin American descent who attended high school in California and are not citizens
[Read More...]The Teaching Tour: Pitzer College Awarded Fulbright-Hays Grant to Take School Teachers to Nepal
Claremont, Calif. (September 26, 2012) — Pitzer College has been awarded a Fulbright-Hays Group Project Abroad grant to take seven local school teachers and three Pitzer students on a five-week study-tour of Nepal next summer. The grant will fund the Pitzer College Educators in Nepal initiative, a program designed to help improve middle and high
[Read More...]Sagehen Round Up for the Week of September 17, 2012
Claremont, CA (September 24, 2012) It was a bit of a quiet week for Sagehen Athletics, as the Football and Men’s and Women’s Cross Country teams were all idle, leaving only four of the seven fall sports in action. The rest did come at a key time for those teams, as football opens SCIAC play
[Read More...]Sagehen Round Up for the Week of September 10, 2012
Claremont, CA (September 17, 2012) This week in Sagehen Athletics saw the Men’s Soccer and Women’s Soccer mirror each other, dropping tough games to CMS on Wednesday before bouncing back to pick up big wins over Chapman on Saturday. Men’s Soccer had a day when everything went wrong in its battle with CMS, falling 6-1
[Read More...]Sagehen Round Up for the Week of September 10, 2012
Claremont, Calif. (September 17, 2012) – The 2012-13 athletic year is already in full swing with all seven fall sports opening their campaigns in the last nine days, and the SCIAC season approaching this week for three of them. The Sagehen Volleyball team got the year started for the athletic department by hosting the Pacific
[Read More...]Sagehen Round Up for the Week of September 3, 2012
Claremont, CA (September 10, 2012) — The 2012-13 athletic year is already in full swing with all seven fall sports opening their campaigns in the last nine days, and the SCIAC season approaching this week for three of them. The Sagehen Volleyball team got the year started for the athletic department by hosting the Pacific
[Read More...]Pitzer College Wins University and College Designers Association Award
Claremont, Calif. (August 31, 2012) — Pitzer College receives a 2012 Excellence Award in the University and College Designers Association (UCDA) for its 2011 Admission Viewbook. This year’s awards will be handed out on October 12 during the 42nd Annual UCDA Design Conference in Montreal, Canada. The 2011 Viewbook, designed by Gabriela Contreras, won in
[Read More...]Pitzer College Professor Awarded Two National Research Grants
Claremont, Calif. (August 30, 2012) — Pitzer College Assistant Professor of Sociology Azamat Junisbai has been awarded a $100,000 grant by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and a $40,000 grant by the National Council for Eurasian and East European Research (NCEEER) to organize and oversee nationally representative public opinion surveys in post-Soviet Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.
[Read More...]Pitzer College Alumnus and Professor Present at World Congress of Herpetology
Claremont, Calif. (August 24, 2012) — Pitzer College alumnus Matthew Ward ’11 and Professor of Biology Marion Preest of Pitzer’s W. M. Keck Science Department presented research about the way some chameleons attract their prey. The presentation, “Chemical Prey Luring in Jackson’s Chameleons: Time’s Fun When You’re Having Flies,” was made at the 7th World
[Read More...]Pitzer College Receives $500,000 Gift from the Pitzer Family Foundation
Claremont, Calif. (August 23, 2012) — Pitzer College received a $500,000 gift from the Pitzer Family Foundation to establish the Pitzer Archive and Conference Center. The new archival and conference space is a leading attraction of Phase II of the College’s Residential Life Project. Opening in the fall, Phase II brings online four mixed-use residence
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