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Pitzer College Associate Vice President Receives Grant
Claremont, Calif. (April 2, 2010) — Pitzer College Associate Vice President for College Advancement Joy Kliewer received a Consortium for Innovative Environment in Learning Grant for her project “Outdated or Underrated: Exploring Experimental Colleges and Universities in America.” Kliewer, with collaborator Rabbi Patricia Karlin-Newmann, will teach a seminar entitled “Outdated or Underrated: Exploring Experimenting Colleges
[Read More...]Pitzer College Center of California Cultural and Social Issues Receives California Council for the Humanities Grant
Claremont, Calif. (April 1, 2010) — The Pitzer College Center of California Cultural and Social Issues (CCCSI) received a California Council for the Humanities Grant for the continual expansion of Borrowed Voices, a community-based writing and self-expression program that develops the stories of incarcerated youth and delivers them to a broader audience. Since 2001, Pitzer
[Read More...]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...]Pitzer College Receives Two Mellon Foundation Grants
Claremont, Calif. (June 24, 2009)—Pitzer College received two grants from the Mellon Foundation to expand academic programs in the areas of global communities and environmental science. The Mellon Foundation gave $600,000 for the development of programs in Pitzer’s Center for the Study of Global Communities. The Center’s goal is to engage students in comparative study
[Read More...]Pitzer College Joint Science Department Receives NSF Grant
Funding complements College’s unique interdisciplinary educational approach CLAREMONT, Calif. (Aug. 9, 2006) – Pitzer College’s Joint Science Department recognizes that the most exciting and important problems in science these days, from global warming to unsolved questions about how the brain works, are all intensely interdisciplinary problems. A recent National Science Foundation (NSF) grant of nearly
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