In the News Pitzer Student Sumesh Shiwakoty ’18 Writes Commentary in The Kathmandu PostThe Kathmandu Post
Spotlights Pitzer Student Sizes up Seismic Safety in Nepal and CaliforniaSumesh Shiwakoty ’18 thinks big. An international student from Nepal, Shiwakoty wants to change the world through global initiatives that tackle issues ranging from climate change to nuclear proliferation. This summer, he took on a problem close to home—8,000 miles from Claremont. After receiving a 2015 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Environmental Analysis Fellowship for Summer [Read More...]December 1, 2015
The Teaching Tour: Pitzer College Awarded Fulbright-Hays Grant to Take School Teachers to NepalClaremont, Calif. (September 26, 2012) — Pitzer College has been awarded a Fulbright-Hays Group Project Abroad grant to take seven local school teachers and three Pitzer students on a five-week study-tour of Nepal next summer. The grant will fund the Pitzer College Educators in Nepal initiative, a program designed to help improve middle and high [Read More...]September 26, 2012