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Pitzer College Financial Aid Associate Director and Students Speak Out on Proposed Cal Grant Cuts in Sacramento

Claremont, CA (March 16, 2012) — Pitzer College’s Senior Associate Director of Financial Aid Yvonne Gutierrez-Sandoval ’03 along with Pitzer students Guadalupe Avila ’14, Alba Cobian ’14 and Cesar Vargas ’14, participated in a “Day in the Capitol” event on March 7 in Sacramento, CA. The event was organized by the Association of Independent California [Read More...]

March 16, 2012

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Pitzer College Named to the 2012 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll

Claremont, Calif. (March 14, 2012) — Pitzer College was named to the 2012 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll by the Corporation for National and Community Service. Pitzer has been named to honor roll five times since the list’s inception in 2006. Pitzer students donate over 100,000 hours annually to local and global organizations [Read More...]

March 14, 2012

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Sagehen Update for the Week of March 5, 2012

Claremont, Calif. (March 12, 2012) — Bri Marcantoni ’12, Ari Roach ’12 and Emily Buika ’12 continued to show impressive senior leadership in helping the Women’s Softball team extend its winning streak to six games with a 4-0 week. With the Sagehens trailing Staten Island on Friday, Roach hit a solo homer to tie the [Read More...]

March 12, 2012

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Sagehen Round Up for the Week for February 27, 2012

Claremont, Calif. (March 05, 2012) — The Sagehen Men’s Basketball team came up just short in the SCIAC championship game to neighboring rival Claremont-M-S on Saturday 60-54, but not without a huge contribution from Po Grant ’13. With the Sagehens on the ropes and trailing 43-27 with less than 10 minutes to play, Grant made [Read More...]

March 5, 2012

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W.M. Keck Science Department Professor Bryan Thines Selected for US Department of Energy Research Program

Claremont, Calif. (March 2, 2012) — Assistant Professor of Biology Bryan Thines is one of 26 scientists selected to participate in the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute’s Undergraduate Research Program in Microbial Genome Annotation. The DOE’s Joint Genome Institute (JGI) is spearheading an effort to sequence thousands of microbial genomes. Students in [Read More...]

March 2, 2012

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Pitzer College Professor of Psychology KaMala Thomas Addresses the American Psychosomatic Society

Claremont, Calif. (March 2, 2012) — Pitzer College Assistant Professor of Psychology KaMala Thomas will address the American Psychosomatic Society during the organization’s annual meeting March 14-17 in Athens, Greece. Thomas will discuss her recent study that found that spouses of men with prostate cancer report symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder which puts their own [Read More...]

March 2, 2012

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Pitzer College Professor of Biology Branwen Williams Pens Article for Prestigious Journal

Claremont, Calif. (March 2, 2012) — Pitzer College Assistant Professor of Biology Branwen Williams has co-authored “The Geological Record of Ocean Acidification,” an article published in the March 2 edition of Science, a leading peer-reviewed journal of scientific research. “The Geological Record of Ocean Acidification” examines the effects of excess carbon dioxide on the ocean. [Read More...]

March 2, 2012

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Pitzer College Students Awarded Teach For America Fellowships

Claremont, Calif. (February 29, 2012) — Pitzer College congratulates students awarded Teach For America fellowships for fall 2012: Betsy Diaz ’12, Stephanie Migdail ’12, Christopher Peck ’12, Alyshia Silva’12, Laura Silverberg ’12, Sarah Surrey ’12, Amelia Troutman ’12 and Elisha Whitman ’12. Diaz is a double major in neuroscience and psychology and will teach in [Read More...]

February 29, 2012

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Pitzer College Student Gabriel Loewinger ’12 Coauthors Paper to be Published in Journal Neuropharmacology

Claremont, Calif. ( February 27, 2012) — Pitzer College student Gabriel Loewinger ’12 has coauthored a paper about methamphetamine that will be published in an upcoming issue of the journal Neuropharmacology. Loewinger’s paper, “Methamphetamine-induced dopamine terminal deficits in the nucleus accumbens are exacerbated by reward-associated cues and attenuated by CB1 receptor antagonism” examines the relationship [Read More...]

February 28, 2012

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Sagehen Round Up for the Week for February 20, 2012

Claremont, Calif. (February 27, 2012) — The Sagehen Men’s Basketball team came up just short in the SCIAC championship game to neighboring rival Claremont-M-S on Saturday 60-54, but not without a huge contribution from Po Grant ’13. With the Sagehens on the ropes and trailing 43-27 with less than 10 minutes to play, Grant made [Read More...]

February 27, 2012