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Professor Wins Book Award
English Professor Paul Saint-Amour earns the Modern Language Association's prestigious First Book Prize for "The Copywrights." The book is a "dazzlingly wide-ranging and engaging study about the relations between literature and law." More ...

 
New Building to Boost Program
An $800,000 grant will help provide state-of-the-art facilities for Pomona's cognitive science program. More ...

Spanglish Memoir Crosses Cultures
Professor Susana Chavez-Silverman's new bilingual memoir takes readers on a lyrical multicultural journey. More ...

Economics Professor Earns Credit
James Likens wins top honor for his decades of work on behalf of credit unions. More ...

Sagehen Sports Stars Honored
Five Pomona-Pitzer athletes are inducted into Hall of Fame for excellence in sports ranging from swimming to soccer. More ...

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Alumna Lands "Genius Grant"
Doctor/Filmmaker Gretchen Berland ’86, inaugural recipient of Pomona College’s Inspirational Young Alumni Award, receives a $500,000 MacArthur Fellowship for her work using film to improve the quality of health care. More ...

Nashville Honors Kris Kristofferson '58
The country singer, famous for such songs as “Sunday Morning Coming Down,” is inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame during a nationally televised broadcast from Nashville's Grand Ole Opry. More ...

Gonzalez '72 Takes Leadership Role
Alexander Gonzalez is elected chair of the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities, which addresses the higher education needs of the growing Hispanic population. More ...

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Winter Break Parties
Enjoy the camaraderie of fellow alumni, students and parents at warm winter receptions in such places as New York, Seattle, Chicago, Sacramento, Denver, San Francisco Bay Area, Portland, Phoenix and Washington, D.C. More ...

Atlanta Math Reception
On January 6, Pomona alumni in the Atlanta area can meet and mingle with faculty, friends and alumni from the Claremont Colleges at a reception being held in conjunction with the annual Joint Mathematics Meetings at the Marriott Marquis Hotel. More ...

Southern Exposure in 2005
Join Pomona alumni on two exclusive trips down south. In March, cruise the Intracoastal Waterway from Jacksonville to Savannah to Charleston with Art History Professor Frances Pohl. Or in August, head way down south to Cape Town, Johannesburg and two luxurious South African game reserves with Music Professor Katherine Hagedorn. More ...

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December is a busy time of year, so don't forget to make your gift to Pomona. Gifts made by December 31 will be counted in the 2004 tax year and can be used immediately for the benefit of Pomona's students. Make a gift today online.


Alumni are welcome at the College's annual Career Week January 31 to February 4, and at the Career & Internship Fair on February 11. Get details on those events, plus tips for revamping your resume, at the Career Development Office's alumni Website.


The latest issue of Pomona College Magazine will land in mailboxes later this month. The theme is "Finding Your Passion," with profiles of actor/singer Kris Kristofferson '58, Judge Stephen Reinhardt '51, newspaper columnist Mary Schmich '75, entrepreneur Michael Cookson '78 and other exceptional alumni.


Some alumni might get jealous when they learn of a relatively new but much loved Pomona tradition simply known as "Snack." More ...

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