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Twenty Years in Costa Rica

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

News Topics

• Study Abroad
• Sustainability
• Science

Organization

• Study Abroad and International Programs
• Department of Natural Sciences

Student Achievements

Scholars Near and Far: 2025 Awards Update

This award season, Pitzer students continue to enhance Pitzer’s global academic reputation.

News Topics

• Awards
• Study Abroad

Student Achievements

Pitzer Announces Selection of 18 Recipients of 2025 Fulbright Awards

Pitzer students and alumni have delivered another impressive result in this year’s awards, which will enable them to teach English, continue their studies, and pursue research projects around the world.

News Topics

• Awards
• Students
• Environmental Analysis
• History
• Psychology
• Political Studies
• Linguistics
• Critical Global Studies
• Anthropology
• Economics
• Media Studies
• Organizational Studies
• Religious Studies
• Sociology
• Study Abroad

Organization

• Office of Fellowships

Student Achievements

2025 Watson Fellow Aidan Henrikson ’25 Takes History Off the Books

Pitzer student Aidan Henrikson ’25 has received the 2025 Thomas J. Watson Fellowship to immerse himself in the study of history through media, art, scent, and more in six countries.

News Topics

• History
• Students
• Awards
• Study Abroad

Organization

• Office of Fellowships

Student Achievements

2025 Napier Award & Critical Language Scholarship Winner Natasha Yen ’25 Has South Africa and Indonesia in Her Sights

Pitzer student Natasha Yen ’25 is helping youth leaders in South Africa and learning the Bahasa Indonesian language with support from the 2025 Napier Award and Critical Language Scholarship.

News Topics

• Awards
• Students
• Study Abroad
• Sociology
• Environmental Analysis
• Asian American Studies

Organization

• Office of Fellowships

Faculty Achievements

Seeing Concepts in Real Time: An Intercultural Immersion in Japan

Pitzer Professor Linus Yamane has facilitated the Tomodachi Inouye Scholars Program, a Japan-U.S. youth exchange program for students in his co-taught class Trans-Pacific Japan: Love & Money.

News Topics

• The Participant Fall 2025 Issue
• Faculty Distinctions
• Around the Mounds
• Asian American Studies
• Economics
• Study Abroad
• Students

Research

Napier Award Winner Taeya Boi-Doku ’24 Centers Afroecology in Gardening

Taeya Boi-Doku ’24 has received a 2024 Napier Initiative Award to develop her project, Reclaiming Afroecology: Indigenous Technology and Food Sovereignty.

News Topics

• Students
• Awards
• Study Abroad

Organization

• Office of Fellowships

College Statement

Pitzer College Media Statement on College Council’s Call for Israel Academic Boycott

Pitzer College President Strom C. Thacker rejected a Pitzer College Council recommendation calling for an academic boycott of all Israeli academic institutions.

News Topics

• Study Abroad

College Statement

Pitzer College Media Statement on Study Abroad Program Changes

News Topics

• Study Abroad

Student Achievements

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

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

News Topics

• Students
• Neuroscience
• Study Abroad
• Academics
• Science