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New Book by Pitzer Alumnus and Environmental Historian Char Miller ’75 Examines Sustainability in California
Claremont, Calif. (September 26, 2016)—Pitzer College alumnus Char Miller ’75 digs deep into California’s environmental history and the dark side of the sunny state’s ecology in his new book, Not So Golden State: Sustainability vs. the California Dream. In this collection of essays, Miller examines California’s critical environmental dilemmas through the lens of a natural
[Read More...]New Anthology Edited by Pitzer College Alumnus Examines Impact of Climate Change on Land Management
Claremont, Calif. (September 1, 2016)—Forest Conservation in the Anthropocene, a new anthology co-edited by Pitzer College alumnus Char Miller ’75, explores the environmental crises triggered by climate change and examines how land managers plan to address the shifting ecological landscape in North American forests. The anthology probes the central dilemmas that ecologists, forest land managers,
[Read More...]Pitzer College Announces 2016 Alumni Award Winners
Claremont, Calif. (April 18, 2016)—Pitzer College has named public education reformer Amy Rosen ’76 its 2016 Distinguished Alumni Award honoree and community leader Betty Avila ’08 its 2016 Young Alumni Achievement Award recipient. They will be honored at a reception on Friday, April 22, from 7 to 8:30 p.m., at the Pitzer College President’s Residence. Each
[Read More...]Inaugural John D. Sullivan Memorial Lecture – “Groundwater in the Golden State”
Cynthia Koehler, a Pomona alumnus, has been a public interest attorney and environmental advocate specializing in water policy for 25 years. She has served as the California Water Legislative Director for the Environmental Defense Fund and the Legal Director for Save San Francisco Bay. In 2014 she was instrumental in launching WaterNow, a NGO dedicated
[Read More...]Alumna Sandra D. Mitchell ’73 Honored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Claremont, Calif. (December 21, 2015)—Pitzer College alumna Sandra D. Mitchell ’73, an influential philosophy of science scholar, has been named a 2015 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow. This year, the AAAS Council elected 347 fellows to recognize their contributions to innovation, education and scientific leadership. Mitchell, professor and chair of the
[Read More...]Pitzer Alumnus John Moscowitz ’75, “An Unorthodox Rabbi”
Claremont, Calif. (October 16, 2015)—In Evolution of an Unorthodox Rabbi, Pitzer College alumnus John Moscowitz ’75 shares reflections and insights gained during the quarter of a century he served as a rabbi at Holy Blossom Temple in Toronto, Canada. The book will be released by Dundurn Press on October 31. Part memoir, part social history,
[Read More...]A Voice for Justice
Pitzer College alumna Susan Sobel ’12 wants to expand the conversation about the American justice system and is using her role as a new contributor to The Huffington Post to do just that. Her first piece for the Post, “What Prison, Poetry, and a Redhead Have in Common,” outlines how she became an advocate for
[Read More...]Facing, Not Facebooking, Each Other
“Facing the Empathy Deficit,” a talk about mindful technology by Pitzer College alumnus Ari Saperstein ’15, was recently posted on the TEDxTalks website. In 2014, Saperstein was the first Pitzer student to win the TEDxClaremontColleges’ Student Speaker Competition, which guaranteed him a spot to speak at the 2015 TEDx conference in March. Saperstein’s 16-minute speech focuses on the impact social
[Read More...]Pitzer Alumna Oversees $30 Million Reproductive & Sexual Health Project
Claremont, Calif. (August 11, 2015)— Rebecka Lundgren ’81 has been named the principal investigator of the Passages Project, a global outreach program at Georgetown University’s Institute for Reproductive Health (IRH) that aims to promote healthy timing and spacing of pregnancies in the developing world. The Pitzer College alumna is the director of research at the
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