Pitzer News

Student Achievements

Cary Dornier ’25 Jumpstarts Career in National Security

Political studies major Cary Dornier ’25 applies Pitzer’s core value of intercultural understanding as he joins the Center for a New American Security’s mentorship program.

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• Students
• Political Studies

Student Achievements

Engaging Communities Through Mentorship and Economics

Two Pitzer students draw from their economics major and peer mentorship to make the corporate and college worlds more accessible.

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• Students
• Economics

Student Achievements

The Tribe Has Spoken: Students Recreate Reality Show ‘Survivor’

From human battleship to capture the flag, Pitzer and other Claremont Colleges students get creative as they bring reality television to life.

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• Students

College News

What is Race in Shakespeare? First-Year Seminars Experiment in Academics This Fall

Fall 2024 first-year seminars delve into race in Shakespeare and pop culture, Los Angeles field trips, radical community care, animals in movies, and more.

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• Students

Student Achievements

New Hive Awards Unleash Student Creativity in Unexpected Way

The fall 2024 grants support various student projects, including a scent opera, reinventing litter, revamping a data science website, and peer-to-peer club governance.

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• Students
• Awards

Student Achievements

Season of Achievements: 2023–24 Fellowships, Scholarships, and Awards

Pitzer students and alumni have earned a multitude of awards, grants, and fellowships during the 2023–24 academic year.

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• Students
• Alumni
• Awards

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• Office of Fellowships

Student Achievements

Licheng She ’25 and Corrine Waters ’26 Receive Curatorial Apprenticeship Awards

She seeks to combine media studies and social change, while Waters hopes to bridge Black communities and art institutions.

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• Awards
• Students
• Arts & Culture

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• Pitzer College Art Galleries

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.

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• Students

Organization

• Office of Fellowships

Research

Watson Fellow Tommy Shenoi ’24 Explores Mycology Globally

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• Students

Organization

• Office of Fellowships

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.

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• Students
• Neuroscience