The fall issue of The Participant is here! Our cover story features John Landgraf ’84—architect of many FX hits whose career path started not in business school, but in anthropology at Pitzer. The liberal arts are powerful! Read more: https://t.co/FFdA2qH0HC #Pitzer #LiberalArts

Twenty years ago, Pitzer’s Firestone Center turned 150 acres of former Costa Rican pastureland into a living classroom for restoration and biodiversity. Today it's a jewel in our Study Abroad crown! More: https://t.co/LadivO1G3p #Pitzer #CostaRica #StudyAbroad #sustainability

Assistant Prof. Sierra Williams has earned a $457K NIH grant to study endolysins—proteins that can destroy drug-resistant bacteria. Her team’s research could advance new tools while training the next gen of scientists. More: https://t.co/nFDdLIInk8 #Pitzer #NIH #STEM #Research

Pitzer Professor & alum Suyapa Portillo Villeda ’96 is featured in LA Times en Español discussing the 200-year history of Honduran migration to the U.S.—and how it connects to U.S. corporate policies in Central America. Read: https://t.co/EKslgJsa0F #Pitzer #MigrationStudies

Pitzer President Strom C. Thacker invites you this Saturday, Nov. 8, at 4 p.m. for a special screening of the documentary "I Have A Name" followed by a Q-&-A session with the filmmaker, Adam Bronfman PO'85. The event is free to the public. Register: https://t.co/8fo3rgwZOq

Road closure FYI: Claremont Blvd between Sixth and Ninth Streets is closed Nov. 3, 2025 - August 2026 as part of a CMC improvement project. The Pitzer community can still access campus using the part of Claremont Blvd that is still open.More info/map:

By midterms, Pitzer's First-Year Representative Nicholas Coughlin ’29 was on a first-name basis with half the student body — across all five colleges. Get to know Coughlin in this profile on The Student Life:

Join us: Filmmaker Adam Bronfman PO ’85 visits the Pitzer campus Nov. 8 for a screening of his film “I Have A Name,” a moving look at the U.S. unhoused crisis. A filmmaker Q-&-A will follow. Event is free; register: https://t.co/fR8Jr99bY6 #ConstructiveDialogue #Unhoused #Pitzer

The future of farming: Special thanks to Virginia Jameson, Deputy Secretary for Climate and Working Lands at California Department of Food and Agriculture, for delivering the keynote at the unveiling of our new agrivoltaics site! Read: https://t.co/rVwhdt3i76 #agrivoltaics #farm

Congrats to Professors Katie Purvis-Roberts and Pete Chandrangsu who've been awarded a $446,000 National Science Foundation grant to support the research of their students in Thailand. No wonder they're smiling! More: https://t.co/P1EXY4eEPp #StudentResearch #UndergradScience

Meet the editors: The Student Life recently introduced its new leadership, including managing editors Adam Akins '27 and Charlotte Renner '27. Akins is an English/biology double major; Renner is an environmental science major. Congrats! More: https://t.co/SGPZyMATpj #PitzerProud

Please Join Us: The JEC Fall Lecture Series Presents "An Evening with Claudia Rankine" October 15 at 7 p.m.! It's going to be powerful night of poetry and conversation on the Pitzer campus. Free and open to the public: https://t.co/YF5v7LnmJA #ClaudiaRankine #PitzerCollege

You're invited: Our Justice Education Center's fall lecture series presents acclaimed poet and playwright Claudia Rankine on October 15! The event is open to the public. Come and listen to a writer known for her powerful explorations of race. More: https://t.co/ZFjyUHX7ni #Poetry

More ranking news: Pitzer has leaped eight spots from last year in the category "Best Schools for the Student Experience" in the latest Wall Street Journal/College Pulse college rankings! To learn more about Pitzer's rankings performance this year, read: https://t.co/mTGM7zHUqz

The latest college rankings from U.S. News & World Report (@usnews) rank Pitzer College in the nation's "Top 50 National Liberal Arts Colleges!" But that's not all: Pitzer has done well in other new rankings too! Read our full report: https://t.co/p6em2Lin6A #LiberalArts #Pitzer

🎤 #ClaremontDiscourse: Dr. Tessa Hicks Peterson of @pitzercollege will be discussing her book, “Liberating the Classroom: Healing and Justice in Higher Education,” tomorrow, September 25, at 4:15 p.m. in the Founders Room. 📖 Learn more: https://t.co/hECpC8uTxu

How can California’s state government support higher ed? President Strom C. Thacker (pictured, far left) proudly represented Pitzer College in a conversation about this topic with local leaders and the Association of Independent California Colleges and Universities (AICCU).

📣 First #ClaremontDiscourse of the semester! 🎤 Dr. Tessa Hicks Peterson, @pitzercollege 📅 Sept 25 | 🕓 4:15 p.m. How can #HigherEd be an engine of justice and healing? 🌱 Dr. Peterson will explore ways to connect personal, classroom and institutional practices with social

Is our attention span deteriorating? Is our attention being commodified and fracked by smart phones? Have we lost valuable habits of mind? Pitzer’s Munroe Center for Social Inquiry is confronting these questions in the fall 2025 lecture series:

How does undergraduate science research contribute not only to a student’s development but also society’s? Professor Aaron Leconte and Visiting Professor Taia Wu share their perspective with The Student Life: