Pomona College News
2:04 pm March 1, 2012Staff
In March 2010, a group of Pomona College Dining Services employees informed the College that they were interested in forming a union. The College has supported the employees’ rights to petition the National Labor Relations Board for a secret ballot election. Talks about the process leading to an election stalled in June 2011. For a summary of related events and communications as well as facts about the College’s dining services operations, please visit www.pomona.edu/unionization.
During the fall 2011 semester, the College conducted an audit of all of its I-9 files, following a complaint to the Board of Trustees. Deficiencies were found in the files of 84 faculty and staff. Ultimately, 17 employees were unable to present the legally required documentation after the three-week deadline and were fired. For more information and communications related to these events, visit www.pomona.edu/work-documentation.
1:00 pm May 24, 2012Faculty, Research, Students
The Claremont Colleges have been awarded $3.6 million from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) to support efforts that prepare undergraduates to become leaders in science research and medicine.
The five undergraduate colleges (5C)—Claremont McKenna, Harvey Mudd, Pitzer, Pomona and Scripps—submitted a joint proposal to the 2012 HHMI Colleges Initiative outlining a plan to instill quantitative and computational approaches in their life science courses and increasing the persistence of all students in the sciences. Of the 182 proposals received by HHMI, only 43 were funded.
1:12 pm May 18, 2012Faculty
Pomona College Professors Jessica Borelli, Vin de Silva, Frederick Grieman, Pardis Mahdavi, David Menefee-Libey, Ami Radunskaya and C. Joti Rockwell have received the 2012 Wig Distinguished Professor Award for Excellence in Teaching. The award is the highest honor bestowed on Pomona faculty and recognizes exceptional teaching, concern for students and service to the College and the community.
3:09 pm May 14, 2012Life on Campus
University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Wash., and Pomona College in Claremont, Calif., have formed a groundbreaking and cost-effective alliance that will protect each college’s critical data in the event of a disaster.
9:00 am May 14, 2012Students, Campus Events
Watch video from the 2012 Pomona College Commencement ceremony, which occurred on Sunday, May 13.
2:03 pm May 11, 2012Campus Events, The Arts
The Pomona College Museum of Art show "It Happened at Pomona: Part 3: At Pomona" is featured by the Los Angeles Times on its website today and scheduled for print tomorrow. Art critic Christopher Knight notes that it is "the last of an absorbing trio of small Pacific Standard Time shows…[in which] the paintings, photographs, sculptures and installations often ricochet off one another in form and content, underscoring an era of ferment."
3:04 pm May 10, 2012Faculty
Professor Jonathan Lethem has been interviewed by several media outlets about his latest book, Fear of Music, the author and critic takes on the Talking Heads’ seminal 1979 album for the Continuum Books' 33-1/3 series. In his latest interview with NPR, he discusses one particularly memorable song, "Memories Can't Wait," which the article describes as "a dark departure from the Talking Heads' typical sound, musically and lyrically." Other recent interviews include Salon, Wired, the Daily Beast, amd the Los Angeles Review of Books (podcast). The book was reviewed in the larger context of "criticism as memoir" by Slate, as well as by the Los Angeles Review of Books and The Atlantic.
3:04 pm May 8, 2012Alumni
Stephen Pauley ’62, a retired ear, nose and throat physician, has spent decades working on environmental causes, deeply affecting both the environment around him and at Pomona College. For his contributions, he is being presented with Pomona College's Trustee Medal of Merit.
2:23 pm May 7, 2012Faculty
Char Miller examines both the historic struggle and contemporary debates over public lands in the United States in his new book, Public Lands, Public Debates: A Century of Controversy (Oregon State University Press).
10:20 am May 7, 2012Athletics
This week in Pomona-Pitzer Athletics saw three teams competing in the NCAA Championships, while almost two dozen Sagehens were honored by the SCIAC for their performances during the spring season.
10:20 am May 7, 2012Athletics
This week in Pomona-Pitzer Athletics saw the Men’s and Women’s Tennis teams put up a strong fight in the SCIAC Tournament before earning runner-up finishes, while two familiar names had their best times of the Track and Field season in the 5000 meters to put themselves in NCAA contention.
8:15 am May 4, 2012Students
Vivian Tsai-Wei Chou ’13 and Benjamin Scott Murphy ’13 have been awarded a Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship, which provides up to $7,500 per year for educational expenses to college sophomores and juniors who intend to pursue careers in mathematics, the natural sciences or engineering. Naomi Wagner ’13 received an honorable mention.
11:03 am April 26, 2012Staff
Pomona College President David Oxtoby was interviewed in the April 25 issue of the Claremont Courier about his recent appointment to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The Academy was chartered in 1780 to cultivate every art and science which may tend to advance the interest, honor, dignity, and happiness of a free, independent, and virtuous people. Academy members are elected on the basis of their leadership in academics, the arts, business, or public affairs and have ranged from Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson to such 20th-century luminaries as Margaret Mead, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Akira Kurosawa.