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Pitzer Student Roberto Cabrales ’20 Receives Leadership Award for Environmental and Social Justice Work

Claremont, Calif. (April 28, 2016)—Pitzer College student Roberto Cabrales ’20 has been selected as a 2016 Newman Civic Fellow. An initiative of Campus Compact, the Newman Civic Fellows Award honors college students who are dedicated to finding solutions for challenges facing communities throughout the country. Before coming to Pitzer as a New Resources student in [Read More...]
April 28, 2016
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Pitzer College Announces its Inaugural Student Leadership Award Winners

Claremont, Calif. (April 25, 2016)—Pitzer College recognized students and organizations that embody the College’s core values at its inaugural Student Leadership Awards on April 20. For each of Pitzer’s five core values—Social Responsibility, Intercultural Understanding, Interdisciplinary Learning, Student Engagement and Environmental Sustainability—there were two winners, one student and one student-led group. At the awards reception, [Read More...]
April 25, 2016
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Pitzer Student Lindsey Burkart-Lima ’16 Wins Coro Public Affairs Leadership Fellowship

Claremont, Calif. (April 21, 2016) — Pitzer College student Lindsey Burkart-Lima ’16 has been awarded a Coro Fellowship to San Francisco. The Coro Fellowship in Public Affairs is a full-time, graduate-level leadership-training program that prepares talented and committed individuals to become effective and ethical leaders. During her Pitzer career, Burkart-Lima has brought her leadership ability [Read More...]
April 21, 2016
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Four Pitzer Students Recognized for Outstanding Athletic Achievement

Claremont, Calif. (April 20, 2016)—Pitzer College congratulates student-athletes Ying Fry ’16, Sarah Markowitz ’16, Will Thorson ’16 and Andy Wright ’16, whose outstanding athletic performance and leadership were recognized at the 2015-16 Student Athlete Awards dinner on April 12 at Pitzer College. Ying Fry, who is a two-sport threat in both soccer and lacrosse, won [Read More...]
April 20, 2016
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Pitzer Student Jenna Loesberg ’18 Will Delve Deep into Conservation Work as a Doris Duke Scholar

Claremont, Calif. (April 18, 2016)—Pitzer College student Jenna Loesberg ’18 has been selected as a Doris Duke Conservation Scholar as part of the Landscape Conservation Initiative at Northern Arizona University (NAU). NAU’s two-year program is funded by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. The Doris Duke Conservation Scholar program creates opportunities for college students to study conservation [Read More...]
April 18, 2016
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Pitzer College Announces 15 Student Fulbright Winners

Claremont, Calif. (April 21, 2016)—Pitzer College congratulates its graduating seniors and alumna who have been awarded 2016-17 Fulbright US Student Program fellowships so far this year: Amanda Chang ’16, Ciera Fleming ’16, Nicola Ying Fry ’16, Hannah Leib ’16, Amanda Leon ’16, Jennifer Lowe ’12, Nina Matsumoto ’16, Sarah Norise ’16, Christopher Norwood ’16, Fiona Nugent [Read More...]
April 13, 2016
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Pitzer Student Adriana Ceron ’18 Selected as 2016 Mellon Mays Fellow

Claremont, Calif. (April 8, 2016)—Pitzer College student Adriana Ceron ’18 has named a 2016 Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship (MMUF) program fellow. An initiative of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, MMUF aims to increase faculty diversity by supporting underrepresented students who want to pursue careers as professors. Ceron, a sociology major and Chicano/a-Latino/a studies minor, is [Read More...]
April 8, 2016
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Pitzer Student Eli Erlick ’17 to Found Trans Youth Leadership Program with Davis Projects for Peace Award

Claremont, Calif. (April 6, 2016)—Pitzer College student Eli Erlick ’17 has been awarded $10,000 by Davis Projects for Peace to establish the Trans Youth Leadership Summit, a Los Angeles-based leadership institute for young transgender people. Erlick’s initiative is one of 120 proposals from across the country selected for the award, which supports college students who [Read More...]
April 6, 2016
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Pitzer Students Lekha Jandhyala ’16 and Anna Nichols ’16 to Conduct Globe-Trotting Research with Watson Fellowships

Claremont, Calif. (March 31, 2016)—Pitzer College seniors Lekha Jandhyala ’16 and Anna Nichols ’16 have been awarded 2016-17 Thomas J. Watson Fellowships. The $30,000 one-year fellowships support college seniors with unique independent study projects outside of the US. Both Jandhyala and Nichols proposed creative, trans-national projects that will take them around the globe. Lekha Jandhyala [Read More...]
March 31, 2016