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Pitzer Professor Brent Armendinger Named California Book Award Finalist

Claremont, Calif. (March, 30, 2016)—Professor Brent Armendinger’s book, The Ghost in Us Was Multiplying (Noemi Press, 2015), is selected as a finalist for the 2016 California Book Award in poetry. The 85th Annual California Book Awards ceremony will be held on Monday, June 13, 2016 at the Commonwealth Club of California in San Francisco. The [Read More...]

March 30, 2016

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Pitzer Student Ramiro Pinedo Jr. ’18 Selected as Conservation Scholar

Claremont, Calif. (March 17, 2016)—Pitzer College student Ramiro Pinedo Jr. ’18 is one of 20 undergraduates from across the country to be selected for the Doris Duke Conservation Scholars Program at University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), a two-year program dedicated to educating future leaders in environmental conservation. As a Doris Duke scholar at UCSC, [Read More...]

March 17, 2016

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Chemistry Professor Aaron Leconte Earns Cottrell Scholar Award

Claremont, Calif. (February 29, 2016)—Assistant Professor of Chemistry Aaron Leconte has received a three-year, $100,000 Cottrell Scholar award from Research Corporation for Science Advancement. The Cottrell Scholar program recognizes top early-career academic scientists and supports both research and teaching. Leconte is one of 24 Cottrell Scholars from across the country selected in 2016. He teaches [Read More...]

February 29, 2016

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Visiting Professor David Goldblatt Wins International Writing Awards

Claremont, Calif. (January 6, 2016)—Writer David Goldblatt, a visiting professor at Pitzer College this spring, won the William Hill Sports Book of the Year for his book The Game of Our Lives: The Meaning and Making of English Football on November 26, 2015. The same week, the Foreign Press Association in London crowned Goldblatt’s article, [Read More...]

January 6, 2016

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Pitzer students Gabriela Ornelas ’17 and Sara Roschdi ’17 Selected as Mellon Mays Fellows

Claremont, Calif. (May 4, 2015)—Pitzer College students Gabriela Ornelas ’17 and Sara Roschdi ’17 have been selected as Pitzer’s first Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship (MMUF) program fellows. 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. Ornelas and Roschdi [Read More...]

May 4, 2015

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Pitzer Student Braden Bernards ’15 Wins DAAD Scholarship for Research in Germany

Claremont, Calif. (April 23, 2015)—Pitzer College student Braden Bernards ’15 has been awarded a German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) undergraduate scholarship. The scholarship supports highly-qualified undergraduate students who have well-defined plans to study, conduct research or complete an internship in Germany. Bernards’ proposed research project would examine how growth-oriented local politics and city-branding has impacted [Read More...]

April 23, 2015

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Pitzer Students Emma Hanashiro ’15 and Anh Tran ’15 Awarded Critical Language Scholarships

Claremont, Calif. (April 15, 2015)—Pitzer College students Emma Hanashiro ’15 and Anh Tran ’15 have been awarded US Department of State Critical Language Scholarships (CLS). The CLS Program is a fully-funded summer language and cultural immersion program that aims to expand the number of Americans studying and mastering critical foreign languages. Hanashiro, an Asian studies [Read More...]

April 15, 2015

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Pitzer Students’ Solar Initiative Selected for Projects for Peace Award

Claremont, Calif. (March 30, 2015)—Pitzer College seniors Robert Little ’15 and Lauren Phipps ’15 have been awarded $10,000 by Davis Projects for Peace to fund a community-owned, women-run solar project in Ghana. This is the first year Pitzer has been eligible for an award from Projects for Peace, which supports undergraduates’ efforts to create and [Read More...]

March 30, 2015

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Pitzer College Named #1 Fulbright Producer for Fifth Straight Year

Fulbright 2014-2015 U.S. Student Top Producer

Claremont, Calif. (February 12, 2015)—For the fifth consecutive year, The Chronicle of Higher Education named Pitzer College as the top producer of student Fulbright Fellows among all US colleges in the “bachelor’s institutions” category with nineteen 2014-15 student Fulbright Fellows. In recent years, approximately 10 percent of the College’s graduating class has won Fulbright Fellowships, [Read More...]

February 12, 2015

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Keck Biology Professor’s $500,000 NSF Grant Supports Student Involvement in Genome Research

Claremont, Calif. (December 19, 2014) — Associate Professor of Biology Emily Wiley won a $506,131 National Science Foundation award for a collaborative research project that engages undergraduate students in the study of genomes and gene function. Wiley teaches biology at the W.M. Keck Science Department, a program of Claremont McKenna College, Pitzer College and Scripps [Read More...]

December 19, 2014