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  1. Sierra Williams
    Faculty Achievements

    Fighting the Superbugs: DNS’ Sierra Williams Awarded $457,000 NIH Grant

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    Williams and her students will explore alternative ways to combat drug-resistant bacteria

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    • Communications
    • Department of Natural Sciences
  2. Costa Rica program students in 2014
    College News

    Twenty Years in Costa Rica

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    This year marks a milestone for the Firestone Center, which puts students at the forefront of restoring the Costa Rican forests and the habitats of the animals who call them home

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    • Study Abroad and International Programs
    • Department of Natural Sciences
  3. Bangkok canal system that is being studied by a student team led by Professors Purvis-Roberts and Chandrangsu
    Research

    Faculty Awarded $446,000 NSF Grant for Student Research

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    The grant will support teams of Pitzer-Scripps student researchers in summer research about Bangkok's canal system

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    • Department of Natural Sciences
  4. Inset photo of Anna Wenzel with a molecular model studied in her lab
    Faculty Achievements

    Innovating in Chemistry: Wenzel Lab Awarded $250,000 NSF Grant

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    The award will support several student researchers in a project aimed at unlocking inexpensive ways to develop critically important chemical compounds

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    • Department of Natural Sciences
  5. The cover of Participant magazine with a photo of the front of the Nucleus science building The cover overlays an aerial view of the Nucleus.
    The Participant Magazine

    New Participant Issue Experiments in Scientific Curiosity

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    3p Bridgette Ramirez

    From cracking the codes of life to the biology of making a difference, the spring 2025 magazine showcases the Pitzer science experience and the opening of an exciting new facility, Nucleus West.

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    • Department of Natural Sciences
  6. Jana Biedenweg stands in front of the giant panda enclosure at San Diego Zoo while a panda eats bamboo.
    Alumni Achievements

    How to Become a Giant Panda Specialist

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    3p Bridgette Ramirez

    Pitzer alum Jana Biedenweg ’20 oversees the welfare of the first giant pandas to come to the U.S. in two decades, putting her passion for biology and wildlife conservation into practice.

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  7. A view of the Pitzer Clock Tower on a bright day with the grove house and the san bernardino mountains behind it.
    Faculty Achievements

    Professor Ethan Van Arnam Awarded NIH Grant to Seek Disease-Fighting Molecules

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    Ethan Van Arnam and his lab have been awarded a three-year, $400,000+ R15 grant from the National Institute of Health’s (NIH) Institute of General Medical Sciences.

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    • Department of Natural Sciences
  8. Pratya Poosala holds up a children's book she created in Nepali with an illustration of a monkey on a tree.
    Student Achievements

    For Pratya Poosala ’24, Storytelling and Radical Listening Can Improve Healthcare

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    3p Bridgette Ramirez

    Pratya Poosala ’24 adds a self-designed major in narrative medicine to her behavioral neuroscience major to combine science and the humanities.

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  9. Tessa soloman-lane sits in front of a microscope
    Faculty Achievements

    Professor Tessa Solomon-Lane Awarded CAREER Grant by National Science Foundation

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    3p Bridgette Ramirez

    Solomon-Lane’s CAREER grant, titled Early-Life Social Environments Drive Behavioral and Neural Mechanisms of Development, will fund a five-year research project beginning in May 2024.

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    • Department of Natural Sciences
  10. Teo Cooper in a lab
    Student Achievements

    After Two NSF Fellowships, Teo Cooper ’24 Seeks to Balance People and Nature

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    After studying plants at Harvard this summer, a student recalls the racial justice series that brought them to Pitzer and looks ahead to studying abroad in Southern Africa.

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    • Department of Natural Sciences