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Lots in Translation: Professor Phil Zuckerman’s books hit international bookshelves

(Claremont, Calif.) August 20, 2013– Pitzer College Professor of Sociology Phil Zuckerman’s book, Society without God, an ethnographic portrait of secularity in Denmark and Sweden, has been translated into Danish, Korean and Italian while Invitation to the Sociology of Religion, an introduction to the sociology of religion, has appeared in Chinese, Farsi and Turkish. Zuckerman’s [Read More...]

August 20, 2013

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Pitzer Professor and Students Study Paleontological Treasures in China

Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology

Claremont, Calif. (August 16, 2013)—Pitzer College Assistant Professor of Biology Lars Schmitz and students Patrick Niedermeyer ’15 and Chloe Shih ’15 will spend a week studying the fossils of prehistoric creatures in collections at Peking University and the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing, China. “These museums have some of the most complete [Read More...]

August 16, 2013

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Pitzer College Professor Explores African Intellectual History in New Book

An Outline of the New African Movement in South Africa

Claremont, Calif. (August 8, 2013)—Pitzer College Professor Emeritus of Creative Studies Ntongela Masilela’s new book, An Outline of the New African Movement in South Africa, was recently released by the African World Press. In his new book, Masilela details the intellectual history of the New African Movement, a movement of writers, political and religious leaders, [Read More...]

August 8, 2013

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Pitzer College Students to Present Scientific Research at National Conference

Claremont, Calif. (August 9, 2013)—Four Pitzer College students have been selected to give presentations at the Capstone Conference at The Ohio State University’s Mathematical Biosciences Institute (MBI). Brian Cohn ’14, Jacob Enslein ’15, Julia Filo ’14 and (Yoni) Samuel Rubin ’15 will present findings from research projects funded by a $3.6 million grant from the [Read More...]

August 8, 2013

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Pitzer College Professor of Chemistry Awarded National Research and Teaching Honor

Pitzer Professor Katie Purvis-Roberts with student in W.M. Keck Science Department laboratory

Claremont, Calif. (August 5, 2013)—Pitzer College Associate Professor of Chemistry and Associate Dean of Faculty Katie Purvis-Roberts is one of seven outstanding undergraduate chemistry professors from across the country to receive the prestigious Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award. The award includes an unrestricted research grant of $60,000 to fund Purvis-Roberts’ research into air pollution’s chemical composition [Read More...]

August 5, 2013

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In Fragments, Pitzer Art Professor Reveals the Whole Picture

Claremont, Calif. (July 31, 2013)—Pitzer College Associate Professor of Art Jessica McCoy’s latest show, Reconstructed, opens Thursday August 1 at the Square i Gallery in Claremont. McCoy is the gallery’s featured artist for the month of August. McCoy’s oil paintings often evolve from photographs she takes of a space, whether of a single room or [Read More...]

July 31, 2013

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Pitzer College Professor Offers a New Perspective on America’s Favorite Pastime

Arriba Baseball! A Collection of Latino/a Baseball Fiction

Claremont, Calif. (July 23, 2013) — Pitzer College Assistant Professor of English and World Literature Melissa Hidalgo’s short story “So Much for the Cubs” appears in the new anthology, Arriba Baseball! A Collection of Latino/a Baseball Fiction. The anthology is the first collection of baseball stories by and about Latinos/as. “So Much for the Cubs” [Read More...]

July 23, 2013

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Pitzer College Professor Receives Cambridge Fellowship to Examine Debates in the Quran

Claremont, Calif. (July 12, 2013) — Pitzer College Assistant Professor of Philosophy Ahmed Alwishah has been awarded a visiting fellowship to the University of Cambridge. He will be writing and conducting research at the renowned English university from January to June 2014. A specialist in Islamic philosophy, Alwishah will work on a manuscript titled Dialectical [Read More...]

July 12, 2013

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Pitzer College Professor Judith Grabiner Named an American Mathematical Society Fellow

Claremont, Calif. (November 27, 2012) — Judith Grabiner, the Flora Sanborn Pitzer professor of mathematics at Pitzer College, has been selected as an inaugural member of the 2012 Fellows of the American Mathematical Society (AMS). The new Fellows program recognizes AMS members from around the globe who have made outstanding contributions to the creation, exposition, [Read More...]

November 27, 2012

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Pitzer College Alumnus and Professor Present at World Congress of Herpetology

Claremont, Calif. (August 24, 2012) — Pitzer College alumnus Matthew Ward ’11 and Professor of Biology Marion Preest of Pitzer’s W. M. Keck Science Department presented research about the way some chameleons attract their prey. The presentation, “Chemical Prey Luring in Jackson’s Chameleons: Time’s Fun When You’re Having Flies,” was made at the 7th World [Read More...]

August 24, 2012