Pitzer News

Academics, Ideas, Learning

Creating Community at Pitzer’s First Mathematics Conference

With her organization of the first math conference hosted at Pitzer, Professor Bahar Acu signals new research and learning opportunities for students.

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• Mathematics
• Faculty

Faculty Excellence

Introducing New Faculty in Humanities and STEM at Pitzer

New professors start teaching and current faculty receive promotions in 2024–25

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• Faculty
• Economics
• Media Studies
• Biology
• Africana Studies
• Philosophy
• Mathematics
• Chemistry
• Environmental Analysis

Faculty Excellence

On NPR, Professor Suyapa Portillo Villeda '96 shares advice about Kamala Harris' immigration policy

As the Democratic Party celebrates the likelihood of Vice President Kamala Harris topping the presidential ticket, Professor of Chicano/a-Latino/a Transnational Studies Suyapa Portillo Villeda '96 sounds a cautionary note.

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• Chicanx-Latinx Studies
• Faculty

Faculty Excellence

Politics of Childcare

Professor Rachel VanSickle-Ward ’99 talks to ABC about how the presidential election raises the stakes of higher childcare costs.

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• Faculty
• Political Studies

Faculty Excellence

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

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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• Neuroscience
• Faculty

Organization

• Department of Natural Sciences

Faculty Excellence

In a Los Angeles Times op-ed, Professor Susan Phillips exposes Amazon’s corporate manipulation tactics in the Inland Empire warehouse takeover

Professor Susan Phillips exposes Amazon’s corporate manipulation tactics in the Inland Empire

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• Faculty

Organization

• Robert Redford Conservancy for Southern California Sustainability

Academics, Ideas, Learning

Professor Hanzhang Liu talks to Bloomberg News about China’s difficulty reopening after the pandemic

"China’s Covid Zero Scars Leave Citizens Fearful of Curbs” —Bloomberg News

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• Faculty

Faculty Excellence

NBC News quotes Visiting Professor Victor P. Corona about Gen Z’s pursuit of their own nightlife culture

"Some Gen Zers are nostalgic for an era of clubbing they didn’t get to experience" —NBC News

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• Faculty

Faculty Excellence

Professor Alicia Bonaparte is quoted by The Guardian about midwifery startups

"‘I felt safe and taken care of’: can midwifery startups change our broken maternity care?" —The Guardian

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• Faculty

College News

Pitzer College Welcomes New Faculty in the Humanities and Sciences

Several current faculty also have been awarded tenure and other promotions

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• Faculty