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Pitzer College Students to Intern for 5 Second Film Festival

Claremont, Calif. (February 2, 2011) — Pitzer College students Lauren James ’11, Alison Rosenfeld ’13, Natari Suzuki ’11, Jessie Yancy-Siegel ’13 and Xiaohan Xu’ 13 are interning for the 3rd Annual Claremont 5 Second Film Festival held on April 28 at the Laemmle Theatre in Claremont. The interns work on committees involved with media relations, [Read More...]

February 2, 2011

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Director of Pitzer Art Galleries to Juror 2011 Feitelson Arts Fellowship Award

Claremont, Calif. (January 31, 2011) — Pitzer Art Galleries Director Ciara Ennis will juror the 2011 Lorser Feitelson & Helen Lundeberg Feitelson Arts Fellowship Award along with Todd Gray, professor of art at California State University Long Beach and Carol A. Stakenas, executive director of Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE). The Feitelson Arts Fellowship award [Read More...]

January 31, 2011

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Pitzer College President to Speak at 2011 Talloires Network Global Leaders Conference In Spain

Claremont, Calif. (January 27, 2011) — Pitzer College President Laura Skandera Trombley will speak at the 2011 Tallories Network Global Leaders Conference held on June 14-16 in Madrid, Spain. Trombley will discuss Pitzer College as a socially responsible institution. The Tallories Network is a gathering of higher education leaders from its 190 members in 58 [Read More...]

January 27, 2011

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Pitzer College Alumna and Board Member Bridget Baker ’82 to Keynote 2011 CASE Conference

Claremont, Calif. (January 19, 2011) — Pitzer College alumna and board member Bridget Baker ’82, president of TV network distribution for NBC Universal, will keynote the 2011 District CASE VII Conference. Her speech, “Learning from TV: Television Pioneer Tells the Tale of Changing Industry,” is scheduled for 1 pm on Thursday, March 3 at the [Read More...]

January 19, 2011

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Pitzer College Alumnus Max Brooks ’94 Authors New York Times Best Sellers

Claremont, Calif. (January 19, 2011) — Pitzer College alumnus Max Brooks ’94 is the author of two bestsellers: The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead (2003, Three Rivers Press) and World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War (2006, Crown.) The Zombie Survival Guide was #12 in the December 2010 [Read More...]

January 19, 2011

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Pitzer College Alumnus Hayden Hamilton ’99 Launches New Business Venture

Claremont, Calif. (January 19, 2011) — Pitzer College alumnus Hayden Hamilton ’99 launched Luminous Lens, an online site that sells contact lenses at a competitive price. Hamilton, who majored in political studies and economics at Pitzer, established Luminous Lens with the belief that everyone should have access to affordable contact lenses. While most retailers charge [Read More...]

January 19, 2011

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Pitzer College Alumnus Matt Nathanson ’95 to Open for Sugarland

Claremont, Calif. (January 19, 2011) — Pitzer College alumnus and singer/songwriter Matt Nathanson ’95 will join Sugarland on their 2011 The Incredible Machine tour. Nathanson is scheduled to perform on April 14, 15, 16 and 22 in Pensacola, FL, Tuscaloosa, AL, Nashville, TN and Columbia, MD. Nathanson, whose work is a blend of folk and [Read More...]

January 19, 2011

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Pitzer College Alumnus Passes. Funeral Services to be Held at Pomona College

Claremont, Calif. (January 18, 2011) — Memorial services for alumnus Kevin Unck ’90 will be held at 1 pm on January 22, 2011 at the Little Bridges Hall of Music at Pomona College with a reception to follow at the Smith Campus Center Edmunds Ballroom. Unck was tragically killed in a bicycling accident on January [Read More...]

January 18, 2011

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Pitzer College Alumnus Honored by Los Angeles Press Club

Claremont, Calif. (January 12, 2011) — Pitzer College alumnus and Los Angeles Times reporter Jeff Gottlieb ’75 will be honored by the Los Angeles Press Club with its first ever Public Service Award for breaking and staying with the City of Bell Scandal. Gottlieb will share the award with collaborator Ruben Vives at the 53rd [Read More...]

January 12, 2011

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A Message from President Trombley on the Tucson, Arizona Shooting

Dear Friends, Our nation experienced a terrible tragedy over the weekend with a shooting in Tucson, Arizona that resulted in the death of six people and thirteen injured, including US Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords ’93, a Scripps College alumna, who was shot in the head and remains in critical condition. Congresswoman Giffords, who double majored in [Read More...]

January 5, 2011