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When Professors Are Your Neighbors

Professors Fély Catan and Amanda Louise Johnson are Pitzer’s Faculty-in-Residence in 2025–26, and their goal is to cultivate a living-learning environment for students.

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• Faculty
• Modern Languages, Literatures & Cultures
• English and World Literature

Organization

• Division of Student Affairs
• Residence Life

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Innovating in Chemistry: Wenzel Lab Awarded $250,000 NSF Grant

The award will support several student researchers in a project aimed at unlocking inexpensive ways to develop critically important chemical compounds

News Topics

• STEM

Organization

• Department of Natural Sciences

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New Faculty in the Humanities and STEM Keep Their Eyes on Timely Issues

Pitzer College welcomes six tenure-track faculty for the 2025-26 academic year; the College also celebrates the promotion of several current faculty.

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• Faculty
• Gender & Feminist Studies
• Environmental Analysis
• Modern Languages, Literatures & Cultures
• Chicanx-Latinx Studies
• Biology
• Physics

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Washington Post Spotlights Keeley on Conspiracies

Professor of Philosophy Brian Keeley introduced conspiracy theories into the field of philosophy; now the Post asked for his help in understanding why these theories thrive in U.S. politics

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How an AI Bot Can Help Mental Health Workers

Pitzer Professor Marcus Rodriguez’s research team received a Claremont Graduate University grant to develop a bot to help early-career therapists remember foundational principles.

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• Faculty
• Psychology

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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.

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• Faculty
• Asian American Studies
• Economics
• Study Abroad
• Students

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What Do They Think of Russia?

Pitzer faculty receive Department of Defense grant to study how Russia's war against Ukraine has impacted public opinion in the Caucasus and Central Asia.

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• Faculty
• Sociology

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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 Achievements

Professor Ethan Van Arnam Awarded NIH Grant to Seek Disease-Fighting Molecules

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• Awards

Organization

• Department of Natural Sciences

Faculty Achievements

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.

News Topics

• Awards
• Neuroscience

Organization

• Department of Natural Sciences