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Pitzer Professor Ming-Yuen S. Ma Wins Society for Cinema and Media Studies Book Award

Claremont, Calif. (January 31, 2014) —Pitzer College Professor of Media Studies Ming-Yuen S. Ma’s book, Resolutions 3: Global Networks of Video, won the 2014 Best Edited Collection Award from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS). Ming and co-editor Erika Suderburg will receive the award on March 21 during the SCMS Annual Conference in [Read More...]

January 31, 2014

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Pitzer College Sociology Professor Alicia Bonaparte Selected for Summer Residency in Jamaica

Claremont, Calif. (January 27, 2014) — Pitzer College Assistant Professor of Sociology Alicia Bonaparte has been awarded a 2014 summer residency by NLS, a new contemporary visual art initiative in Kingston, Jamaica. During the eight-week residency, Bonaparte along with co-awardee and artist Andrea Chung will develop a collaborative art installation, Catchin’ Babies, Colonizing Black Bodies [Read More...]

January 27, 2014

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TIME Names Pitzer Professor Tarrah Krajnak’s South Sound a Best Photo Book of 2013

Claremont, Calif. (January 7, 2014)—TIME selected Pitzer College Assistant Professor of Art Tarrah Krajnak’s book South Sound as one of the best photo books of 2013. South Sound was published by Ampersand Gallery & Fine Books in September 2013. Krajnak began creating the photos in South Sound while she was living and working in a [Read More...]

January 7, 2014

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Pitzer College Mathematics Professor Judith V. Grabiner Wins Distinguished MAA Book Award

Claremont, Calif. (January 7, 2014) — Pitzer College Professor of Mathematics Judith V. Grabiner’s most recent book, A Historian Looks Back: The Calculus as Algebra and Selected Writings, won the prestigious Mathematical Association of America’s Beckenbach Book Prize. The Mathematical Association of America (MAA) described A Historian Looks Back as “an inspiring resource for courses [Read More...]

January 7, 2014

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Biology Professor Jennifer Armstrong Receives $450,000 NSF Grant

Claremont, Calif. (December 13, 2013)— Associate Professor of Biology Jennifer Armstrong received a $450,000 three-year grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to research chromosome structure and gene expression. Armstrong teaches at the W.M. Keck Science Department of Pitzer College, Claremont McKenna College and Scripps College. The grant, “RUI: Chromatin Dynamics and Transcription in Drosophila [Read More...]

December 13, 2013

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Pitzer College Dean of Faculty and a Professor Emeritus Named American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellows

Claremont, Calif. ( November 25, 2013)—Pitzer College Dean of Faculty and Vice President for Academic Affairs Muriel Poston and Professor Emeritus of Philosophy James Bogen have been named American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) fellows. This year’s AAAS fellows will be presented with a certificate and rosette pin on February 15 during the [Read More...]

November 26, 2013

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Pitzer College Hosts Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board’s First Visit to Southern California

Claremont, Calif. (November 15, 2013) – Pitzer College, the nation’s top producer of Fulbright students, will host the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board‘s first visit to Southern California November 17 to 19 for its quarterly meeting. Pitzer College, the Fulbright Board and the Los Angeles World Affairs Council will co-host events that spotlight the [Read More...]

November 15, 2013

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Pitzer Professors and Fulbright Chair Hold Poetry and Tattoo Workshop

Claremont, Calif. (November 13, 2013) — Tom Healy, poet and chairman of the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board, and two Pitzer professors will hold a workshop to explore the art of ink in both the written word and tattooed images. Assistant Professor of English & World Literature/Creative Writing Brent Armendinger and Assistant Professor of [Read More...]

November 13, 2013

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Pitzer Professor to Speak on New Approach to Understanding Public Opinion

Claremont, Calif. (October 7, 2013) — Pitzer College Professor of Anthropology Claudia Strauss will discuss an anthropological approach to parsing public opinion in her talk, Making Sense of Public Opinion about Immigration Reform and Obamacare, at the Honnold/Mudd Library Founders Room on Wednesday, October 9, 2013 at 4:15 p.m. This address is part of the [Read More...]

October 7, 2013

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Pitzer College Professor Launches First Global Distributed Open Collaborative Course

Claremont, Calif. (September 04, 2013)— Pitzer College Professor of Media Studies Alexandra Juhasz spearheads “Feminist Dialogues on Technology,” a new model for online learning called a DOCC (Distributed Open Collaborative Course) this fall. She is the co-facilitator of FemTechNet, a network of international scholars and educators at 15 higher education institutions, who are bringing education [Read More...]

September 4, 2013