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Intercollegiate Media Studies Announces New 5C Major

Claremont, Calif. (September 28, 2006) – Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Associate Professor of English and Media Studies at Pomona College & Chair of the Intercollegiate Media Studies (IMS) Steering Committee, and Tracy Biga MacLean, Academic Director of IMS, are pleased to announce an IMS major. The new major, which takes effect immediately, requires the completion of 11 [Read More...]

September 28, 2006

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Early Member of Pitzer College Board of Trustees Leaves a Larger than Life Legacy

$15 Million Gift is the Largest in the College’s History Claremont, Calif. (September 18, 2006) – Pitzer College meant more to Roger C. Holden than he ever possibly could have imagined. In 1968 Holden, an early member of Pitzer’s Board of Trustees, bequeathed his Laguna Beach home to Pitzer College, at the time valued at [Read More...]

September 18, 2006

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Early Member of Pitzer College Board of Trustees Leaves a Larger than Life Legacy

September 18, 2006

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Pitzer College Named Among ‘The Best 361 Colleges’ by Princeton Review

Major college ranking publication touts quality academics, outstanding professors CLAREMONT, Calif. (August 23, 2006) – Pitzer College provides an excellent educational environment that relies on world-class faculty and a high level of interaction in and out of the classroom, according to the Princeton Review. The New York-based education services company features Pitzer in the 2007 [Read More...]

August 23, 2006

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Pitzer College Sets Fulbright Record for Colleges its Size for Fourth Consecutive Year

Fulbright Grants Awarded to Fourteen 2006 Graduates and Four Alumnae Claremont, Calif. (August 21, 2006) – Pitzer College has been awarded a record eighteen Fulbright Fellowships for the 2006-07 academic year. Fourteen 2006 graduates and four alumnae have been awarded Fulbright grants to continue in their fields of study in either a teaching or research [Read More...]

August 21, 2006

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Pitzer College to Host “Interrupted Life: Incarcerated Mothers in the United States”

Exhibit curated by Rickie Solinger, director, WAKEUP/Arts CLAREMONT, Calif. (Aug. 17, 2006) – Pitzer College will host “Interrupted Life,” a traveling public art installation that examines the lives of incarcerated mothers and their families as well as the policies and politics of incarceration in the United States, at the Nichols Gallery Aug. 28-Sept. 29. Curated [Read More...]

August 17, 2006

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Pitzer College Joint Science Department Receives NSF Grant

Funding complements College’s unique interdisciplinary educational approach CLAREMONT, Calif. (Aug. 9, 2006) – Pitzer College’s Joint Science Department recognizes that the most exciting and important problems in science these days, from global warming to unsolved questions about how the brain works, are all intensely interdisciplinary problems. A recent National Science Foundation (NSF) grant of nearly [Read More...]

August 9, 2006

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Claremont’s Donald Gould Joins Pitzer College’s Board of Trustees

Claremont, Calif. (June 29, 2006) – Pitzer College is pleased to announce that Donald Gould has been elected to the Pitzer College Board of Trustees. Gould is President and Chief Investment Officer of Gould Asset Management, a global investment management company. Over Gould’s 25-year career in asset management business, he has established a distinguished track [Read More...]

June 29, 2006

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Pitzer College Sets Fulbright Record for Colleges its Size for Fourth Consecutive Year

Fulbright Grants Awarded to Thirteen 2006 Graduates and Two Alumnae Claremont, Calif. (May 30, 2006) – Pitzer College has been awarded a record fifteen Fulbright Fellowships for the 2006-07 academic year. Thirteen 2006 graduates and two alumnae have been awarded Fulbright grants to continue in their fields of study in either a teaching or research [Read More...]

May 30, 2006

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Pitzer Offers Ethnobotany Lecture Wednesday, April 12

Local Tongva tribal leader Mark Acuña will discuss Pitzer’s Pre-Columbian Garden Claremont, Calif. (April 4, 2006) – Pitzer College is offering a lecture titled “Pre-Columbian Garden: Pitzer’s Hidden Treasure” by local Tongva tribal member and Dance Captain emeritus, Mark Acuña, on the evening of Wednesday, April 12. Acuña is a recognized expert on plant uses [Read More...]

April 6, 2006