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Faculty Achievements

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 the impact of Russia’s war against Ukraine on public opinion in the Caucasus and Central Asia.

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• Faculty
• Sociology

Faculty Achievements

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

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

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• Awards

Organization

• Department of Natural Sciences

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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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• Awards
• Neuroscience

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• Department of Natural Sciences

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Pitzer Professor Expands Mental Healthcare Globally With Friendship Bench Zimbabwe

Rodriguez and his students have led virtual trainings for Friendship Bench Zimbabwe’s lay health workers to integrate dialectical behavior therapy and crisis response strategies into their practices

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• Health
• Faculty
• Psychology

Faculty Achievements

Menna Bizuneh Chosen as First American Council on Education Fellow from Pitzer College

Professor Menna Bizuneh tapped for the American Council on Education Fellows Program—a highly prestigious and competitive program that immerses recipients in intensive training to grow as leaders in higher education.

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• Faculty
• Education

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Black History Month Spotlight: Professor Darin Brown

Meet Assistant Professor of Psychology Darin R. Brown (he/him), who has taught at Pitzer College since 2019. His recent courses include Neurobiology of Emotion, Introduction to MATLAB, and Foundations of Data Science.

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• Faculty
• Psychology

Faculty Achievements

The Faculty Next Door

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• Faculty

Organization

• Campus Life

Faculty Achievements

35 Years at Pitzer: Staff Member Carlos Ortega

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• Faculty

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• Staff Council