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Access, Affordability, and Outcomes

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

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• Office of Fellowships

Access, Affordability, and Outcomes

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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• Students
• Media Studies

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• Pitzer College Art Galleries

Access, Affordability, and Outcomes

Student Projects Honoring Indigenous Learning and Memory Receive Projects for Peace Awards

Pitzer students win Project for Peace Awards

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• Students

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• Office of Fellowships

Academics, Ideas, Learning

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

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• Office of Fellowships

Academics, Ideas, Learning

Watson Fellow Tommy Shenoi ’24 Explores Mycology Globally

Tommy Shenoi ’24 is embarking on a globetrotting expedition to six countries to study mushrooms through the lens of agriculture, art, entrepreneurship, and science.

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• Students

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• Office of Fellowships

Student Experience & Belonging

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

Academics, Ideas, Learning

A Mathematics Village Transforms Pitzer Students’ Approach to STEM

Pitzer students Caro Harwell ’24 and Charlotte Richards ’25 found an oasis of mathematics in Selçuk, Turkey.

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• Mathematics
• Students

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• Institute for Global/Local Action and Study (IGLAS)

Access, Affordability, and Outcomes

Filmmaker and MOR Fellow Daisy Okazaki ’25 Explores Asian American Identity

Pitzer College student Daisy Okazaki ’25, a media studies major and Asian American studies minor, has received the Margo Okazawa-Rey Fellowship to create a community-rooted film project centered on the experiences of young Southeast Asian women. Partnering with Oakland-based Banteay Srei, Okazaki is producing a short film and accompanying curriculum exploring themes of identity, trauma, healing, and sisterhood. A lifelong storyteller and member of Pitzer’s Pasifika Asian Student Union, Okazaki aims to uplift Asian American communities through film and art.

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• Students

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• Community Engagement Center (CEC)
• Intercollegiate Department of Asian American Studies

Student Experience & Belonging

Pomona-Pitzer Men’s Cross Country Claims National and SCIAC Championships With Historic Wins

Claremont, Calif. — Dec. 4, 2023 — With impressive feats on the track, the Sagehens men’s cross country team has clinched three major wins in Division III athletics this fall—including a one-point victory on the national level.

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• Students

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• Sagehen Athletics

Student Experience & Belonging

Pomona-Pitzer Women’s Soccer Wins SCIAC Regular and Tournament Championships

Claremont, Calif. — Dec. 4, 2023 — This fall the Sagehens women’s soccer team had breakthrough SCIAC victories with regular and tournament championships.

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• Students

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• Sagehen Athletics