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Academics, Ideas, Learning

Pitzer College Art Galleries Presents Multimedia Artists Exploring Civil Rights and Pandemic Histories

Exhibits at Pitzer Galleries connect past to present

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• Pitzer College Art Galleries

Academics, Ideas, Learning

Explore Pitzer’s Robust Study Abroad Programs With Sayjal Waddy ’07

Q&A with Sayjal Waddy ’07, Pitzer alumna and assistant director of study abroad and international programs services.

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• Study Abroad and International Programs

Academics, Ideas, Learning

Pitzer & Adelanto Community Members Organize ­to Bring Water Justice to the City

Adelanto, CA residents wanted to know more about the origins and safety of their water, so a coalition of Pitzer College and community organizations has joined forces with residents to answer these questions.

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• Students
• Faculty

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• Community Engagement Center (CEC)
• Robert Redford Conservancy for Southern California Sustainability
• Critical Action + Social Advocacy (CASA)

Academics, Ideas, Learning

Students Engage in International, Justice-Oriented Psychology Research

Discover a lab at Pitzer with an active, globally-minded approach to make mental health care more accessible.

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• Psychology

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• Fletcher Jones Language and Cultures Resource Center

Academics, Ideas, Learning

LAist features Pitzer Visiting Professor Rudy Mondragon's research on the exploitation of Latino, Black, and Filipino boxers

Professor Rudy Mondragon's research featured in the "LAist"

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• Chicanx/Latinx Student Affairs
• Office of Black Student Affairs
• Center for Asian Pacific American Students (CAPAS)

Academics, Ideas, Learning

Pitzer alumna Karen Hillman '71 writes on LA progressive about how white Americans should recognize Juneteenth by making reparations

Pitzer alumna Karen Hillman '71 writes on "LA progressive"

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• Alumni

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• Intercollegiate Department of Africana Studies

Academics, Ideas, Learning

Pitzer College Art Galleries Provides First-Generation and Students of Color Apprenticeships for Curatorial Experience

A new apprenticeship award offers Pitzer College first-generation and students of color opportunities to gain in-depth curatorial experience at innovative arts organizations

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• Pitzer College Art Galleries

Academics, Ideas, Learning

A Walk Through the Senior Thesis Art Exhibition: Shift + Ground

In "Shift + Ground," Pitzer College’s senior thesis art exhibition, students explore humanity, identity, and the environment while constructing (or deconstructing) the world as they know it.

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• Pitzer College Art Galleries

Academics, Ideas, Learning

The Neuroscience of Following Your Nose

Keck Professor Gautam Agarwal’s Nature article reveals how part of the brain draws on sense of smell to create spatial maps.

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• Neuroscience

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• Department of Natural Sciences

Academics, Ideas, Learning

Professor José Z. Calderón Co-authors Paper on Intersectional Solidarity

Pitzer Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Chicano/a-Latino/a Studies José Z. Calderón recently co-authored an article that explores how movements predominately focused on one issue can coalesce across causes. The article, “Intersectional Organizing and Educational Justice Movements: Strategies for Cross-Movement Solidarities,” appeared in a special spring 2021 issue of The Assembly: A Journal for Public Scholarship on Education, published by the University of Colorado at Boulder’s School of Education.

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• Faculty