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Pitzer Senior Genevieve Kules ’18 Wins Davis Projects for Peace Award
Claremont, Calif. (April 9, 2018)—Pitzer College student Genevieve Kules ’18 has been awarded a Davis Projects for Peace prize to develop a peace garden and video production skills workshop with Native American and Quaker youth in California’s San Joaquin Valley. Pitzer sophomore Isaiah Kramer ’20 was selected as the alternate for the Davis Projects for
[Read More...]Engineering Students from Pitzer and Harvey Mudd Colleges Win Regional APICS Competition
Claremont, Calif. (March 21, 2018) Pitzer College student Peter Leung ’19 and Harvey Mudd College (HMC) students, Bohan Gao ’19, Anjaneya Malpani ’18, Ramita Kondepudi ’18, have won top honors at the regional APICS (American Production and Inventory Control Society) student case competition. The group will head to Chicago in September to compete in the
[Read More...]Pitzer College Seniors Win CMC Business Plan Competition
Claremont, Calif. (March 9, 2018)—A team of three Pitzer College students tied for first place in Claremont McKenna College’s Lightning Challenge, an overnight competition open to 5C students during CMC’s Entrepreneurship Week. Chava Friedman ’18, Noah Kline ’18 and Angelise Slifkin ’18 formed one of two teams that won a one-day race to create—and pitch—a
[Read More...]Five Pitzer Students Selected as Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellows
Claremont, Calif. (July 14, 2017)—Pitzer College students Victor Bene ’19, Kevin Kandamby ’19, Javier LopezCasertano ’19, Naima OrozcoValdivia ’19 and Jasmine (Jazzy) Randle ’19 have been selected for the 2017 Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship (MMUF) Program. An initiative of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the MMUF Program aims to increase faculty diversity by supporting underrepresented
[Read More...]Pitzer Alumna Sachi Watase ’17 Selected for Teachers for Vietnam Program
Claremont, Calif. (July 6, 2017)—Recent Pitzer College graduate Sachi Watase ’17 will teach English at a university in the Mekong Delta this fall with Teachers for Vietnam (TfV), a nonprofit dedicated to building bridges between Vietnamese and Americans through cultural exchange and university-level language learning. Each year, Teachers for Vietnam sends four to six teachers
[Read More...]Pitzer Student Victoria Hernandez ’18 Wins Gilman Scholarship
Claremont, Calif. (May 10, 2017)—Pitzer College student Victoria Hernandez ’18 has been awarded a 2017 Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship to study abroad this spring semester at Tilburg University in the Netherlands. The Gilman Scholarship seeks to strengthen intercultural understanding and prepare undergraduates for a global economy by increasing the number of students who can
[Read More...]Pitzer College Students and Alumni Win 2017 Regional, National and International Awards
Claremont, Calif. (August 9, 2017)—More than 30 Pitzer College students and graduates won fellowships, scholarships and awards during the 2016-17 academic year. Here is an overview of Pitzer’s outstanding scholars and the awards they received to support research projects, language learning and academic programs around the world. American Sociological Association Honors Program Adriana Ceron ’18
[Read More...]Pitzer College Student Tiffany Ortamond ’17 Wins 2017 Napier Award
Claremont, Calif. (April 28, 2017)—Pitzer College student Tiffany Ortamond ’17 was awarded a $15,000 2017 Napier Award to implement her work with Tla’amin Nation in British Columbia, Canada. Pitzer seniors Eli Erlick ’17 and Nick Necochea-Flores ’17 were named 2017 Napier Fellows, with Erlick being selected as a Napier Award alternate. With this award, Ortamond
[Read More...]Pitzer Student Brendan Schultz ’20 Wins Davis Projects for Peace Award to Create Macedonian Youth Conference
Claremont, Calif. (April 26, 2017)—Pitzer College student Brendan Schultz ’20 has been awarded $10,000 by Davis Projects for Peace to organize a youth conference this summer in Macedonia. Schultz’s project, “Bridging Backgrounds: A Macedonian Inter-Ethnic Conference for Cultivating Mutual Understanding and Tolerance,” will bring together Macedonian participants from all ethnic backgrounds with the goal of
[Read More...]Pitzer College Student Sydney Warren ’18 Awarded Public Policy and International Affairs Fellowship
Claremont, Calif. (April 26, 2017)—Pitzer College student Sydney Warren ’18 has been awarded a 2017 Public Policy and International Affairs (PPIA) Fellowship to participate in an intensive seven-week academic program this summer at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. With the PPIA Fellowship, Warren will hone her skills as a leader,
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