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Pitzer College Professor Awarded a US Department of State Title VIII Program Grant

Claremont, Calif. (February 15, 2010) — Pitzer College Assistant Professor Azamat Junisbai received a US Department of State Title VIII Program Grant to attend the 2010 Regional Policy Symposium on Regional Security in Eastern Europe and Eurasia. Junisbai teaches sociology at Pitzer. The symposium will bring together American scholars to examine and discuss timely topics [Read More...]
February 15, 2010
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Film by Pitzer College Professor to Screen at the Berlin Film Festival

Claremont, Calif. (January 29, 2010) — Pitzer College Professor Alexandra Juhasz will screen her latest feature film, The Owls, at the 2010 Berlin Film Festival. Juhasz teaches media studies at Pitzer. The Owls, co-produced by Juhasz and directed by Cheryl Dunye, is a generational anthem for “older, wiser lesbians.” The film follows the lives of four women who, [Read More...]
January 29, 2010
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Pitzer College Professor Authors New Organic Chemistry Book

Claremont, Calif. (January 21, 2010) — Pitzer College Associate Professor and Associate Dean of Faculty Thomas Poon authored Introduction to Organic Chemistry, 4th Edition published by John Wiley and Sons, Inc. Poon teaches chemistry at Pitzer. This text provides an introduction for students who require the fundamentals of organic chemistry as a requirement for their major. It [Read More...]
January 21, 2010
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Pitzer College Professor Receives Literary Honors

Claremont, Calif. (December 03, 2009) — Assistant Professor Brent Armendinger received two prestigious poetry honors from the 2009 Chroma International Queer Writing Competition and the 2009 New Michigan Press/DIAGRAM Chapbook Contest. Armendinger teaches creative writing in the English and world literature field group at Pitzer. His poem “Wood Shop” received first prize at the 2009 [Read More...]
December 3, 2009
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New Child Development Study by Pitzer College Professors

Claremont, Calif. (November 18, 2009) — Research Professor of Anthropology Robert Munroe and Mary Gauvain of the University of California, Riverside authored a new study, “Contributions of Societal Modernity to Cognitive Development: A Comparison of Four Cultures,” published in the November/December issue of Child Development. The study shows that modernizing changes present in traditional societies [Read More...]
November 18, 2009
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Research by Pitzer College Professor Cited in Irish Parliament

Claremont, Calif. (October 16, 2009) – Pitzer College Professor Nigel Boyle’s 2005 paper, FÁS and Active Labour Market Policy 1985-2004, was cited during an Irish Parliament debate on the Labour Services bill. Deputy Varadkar said: “It is unfortunate that this bill is a missed opportunity to start from scratch and examine the Labour Services Act [Read More...]
October 16, 2009
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New Dean Appointed for the Joint Science Department

Claremont, Calif. (September 8, 2009) — Pitzer College announces the appointment of David E. Hansen, PhD as the new dean of the Joint Science Department (JSD), a program of Claremont McKenna College, Pitzer College and Scripps College. “Housing biology, chemistry and physics, the Joint Science Department is the embodiment of interdisciplinary science and the future [Read More...]
September 8, 2009
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Pitzer College Faculty and Staff Awarded BLAIS Grant

Claremont, Calif. (August 28, 2009) — Pitzer College’s faculty and staff, along with members of The Claremont Colleges, received a 2009 BLAIS Grant Award to complete the first phase of the Consortium for Area Revitalization Through Education (CARE) and launch its pilot program in North Long Beach. Professors Martha Barcenas-Mooradian, Tessa Hicks Peterson, Edith Vasquez [Read More...]
August 28, 2009
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Professor Emeritus Werner E. Warmbrunn Dies

Claremont, Calif (July 23, 2009)—Werner Warmbrunn, founding member of the Pitzer College faculty and professor of history for nearly three decades, died peacefully at home on July 19, 2009, at the age of 89. Professor Warmbrunn was born in Frankfurt, Germany, in 1920. He immigrated to the United States in 1941. After receiving his undergraduate [Read More...]
July 23, 2009