Category: Research

2012

• December
  • Kyle Lancaster '05 and Alexander Garfield '08 Named to "30 Under 30" Rising Stars Lists
  • Baseball Research by Professor Gabe Chandler and Guy Stevens '13 Featured on Wired.com
• November
  • Professor Daniel Martinez Quoted in the Nov. 28 New York Times on Jellyfish and Immortality
  • Professor Erica Flapan Inducted Into the Inaugural Group of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
• August
  • Summer Research in Full Swing on Pomona College's Campus
• July
  • Three Science Professors Awarded $100,000 to Fund Collaborative Study of Enzymes With Students
  • Malkiat Johal Authors New Book on Understanding Nanomaterials
  • Pomona College Professor Dara Regaignon Authors Book on Writing Programs at Liberal Arts Colleges
  • Pomona College Buys Trails End Ranch For New Field Station with Plans to Preserve the 50 Wilderness Acres
• June
  • Pomona College Students Win at "DataFest" Competition
  • Pomona College Class of 2012 and Recent Alumna Awarded 15 Fulbright Fellowships
• May
  • The Claremont Colleges Receive $3.6 Million Grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute to Prepare Leaders in Science and Medicine
• April
  • President David Oxtoby Elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
  • Gaines & Peters Discover Evidence of Geologic Trigger for the Cambrian Explosion
  • Prof. Bryan Penprase Selected as American Council on Education Fellow
• March
  • Geology Team Led by Prof. Robert Gaines Solves 100-Year Mystery of the Burgess Shale
• February
  • Pomona College Mathematics Professors Recipients of Fletcher Jones Foundation Grants
• January
  • Pomona College a Top Recipient of RCSA Science Research Grants

2011

• December
  • Pomona Students Bring Their Best Pop Culture Debates to the Blogosphere
• November
  • Pomona College Summer Undergraduate Research Program Awarded $247,500
  • Exhibit by Zoe Carlberg '12 Documents Her 60-Mile Walk Through Los Angeles
• October
  • Professor Robert Gaines Continues NSF Research on Shale Deposits, Exploring Rapid Appearance of Animal Life on Earth
  • Pomona College & Harvey Mudd College Receive $546,273 Grant for Field-Emission Scanning Electron Microscope
• September
  • New Study by Professor Suzanne Thompson Explores How People React to Health and Safety Warnings
• August
  • Summer Undergraduate Research Program Awarded $600,000
• July
  • Daily Bulletin Posts a Historic Look at the Life of Frank Seaver '05
  • Study by Professor Tahir Andrabi Cited by Associated Press Article
  • New Book by Professor John Seery Calls for an Age Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
  • Professor Pardis Mahdavi Authors New Book on Human Trafficking
• June
  • Prof. Robert Gaines Receives $184,036 NSF Grant for Project Investigating Origins of Complex Life
  • From the Magazine: Night Sky
• May
  • Pomona College Class of 2011 & Recent Alumni Awarded 23 Prestigious Fulbright Fellowships
  • Research by Professor Deborah Burke Disproves Conventional Wisdom, Finding Older Adults Are Less Easily Distracted
  • Gabriel Friedman '12 Awarded $10,000 Strauss Foundation Scholarship to Start Music Mentoring Program in Pomona Valley
• April
  • Professor Kathleen Fitzpatrick and MediaCommons Awarded Mellon Grant to Assess Peer-to-Peer Review
  • Rose Hills Foundation Gives $200,000 Grant to Summer Undergraduate Research Program
  • Video: Dean Cecilia Conrad Answers Questions About Summer Research
• March
  • Professor Arash Khazeni Wins 2010 Middle East Studies Association Book Award
• February
  • Magazine: Assistant Prof. Michael Teter '99 Researches the Future of the Filibuster

2010

• December
  • Learning by Doing: Summer Undergraduate Research Program
  • Seeing Green With Thuy Ly
  • Pomona College Receives $170,000 in Grants for Summer Undergraduate Research Program
• October
  • From the Magazine: It's Right on the Tip of My Tongue...
  • From the Magazine: Summer = Research
  • Professor Bryan Penprase Participates in Largest Study Ever of Near-Earth Asteroids
  • Professor Sara Owsley Sood's Research Is the Subject of a "Scientific American" Online Article
• September
  • Prof. Andrabi Study Finds Foreign Aid Had Big Impact on Pakistani Trust of Foreigners
  • Professor Daniel Martinez Awarded $1.26 Million Grant to Study Mechanisms Related to Aging in Hydra
  • New Fossil Bed Discovery by Royal Ontario Museum/Pomona College Team Challenges Assumptions About Famous Fossil Site
  • Professor David Menefee-Libey Quoted in "Time" Magazine
• August
  • Video: Professor Dwight Whitaker's Research Featured on "ScienceFriday"
  • How Pomona Professors Spent Their Summer "Vacations"
  • Professor Michael Steinberger's Research Cited in Landmark Proposition 8 Ruling
• July
  • New Study by Sadie Barr '09 and Prof. Wright Finds Eating Whole Foods vs. Processed Foods Burns More Calories
  • Using High-Speed Video, Prof. Dwight Whitaker and Co-Author Discover a Plant That Produces Mushroom Clouds for Spore Dispersal
  • "Volcanoes: Global Perspectives" Published Just Weeks After Eruption in Iceland Reminds World of Their Power and Widespread Impacts
• June
  • Professor Stephan Garcia Awarded $164,890 Grant for Complex Symmetric Operator Research
  • From the Magazine: It Happened at Pomona
  • From the Magazine: Prof. Jennifer Perry Explores Offshore Treasures in the Channel Islands
  • Professor Jonathan Matsui Awarded $440,149 Grant for Genetic Research on Sensory Systems
• May
  • Professor Philip Choi Wins $637,138 Grant for Advanced Telescope Optics System
  • Pomona College Prominently Featured in "L.A. Times" Article on Senior Thesis Projects
  • Daniel Low '11 Awarded $36,000 in Scholarships to Continue Public Health Work in Africa
  • Los Angeles Church Celebrates 125th Anniversary Aided by Professor Lorn Foster
• April
  • Research by Professor Deborah Burke Mentioned on NPR's "Fresh Air"
• March
  • Professor Daniel Martinez Coauthors Paper in "Nature" on Sequencing of the Hydra Genome
• January
  • Research by Danny Low '11 Featured in the Press

2009

• December
  • New Lichen Species Discovered at Bernard Field Station Named After Former Pomona Professor of Botany
• November
  • Expert Advisory: Expert Available on Climate Change, World Opinion and Foreign Policy, Heading into COP15
  • Pomona College Professor Helps Discover Primeval Gamma Ray Burst
  • Pomona College Receives $25,000 Grant for Summer Undergraduate Research
  • Student's Tuberculosis Research in Kenya Is Subject of Upcoming Journal Article
  • Pomona Donates Rare Condor and Other Birds to Museum
• September
  • Pomona College Professors Awarded More Than $1 Million in Research and Lab Development Grants
• August
  • Pomona College Receives $300,000 Grant for Summer Undergraduate Research
• June
  • Economics Professor Tahir Andrabi Co-Authors Article in Foreign Policy Magazine
  • Economics Professor Michael Steinberger Quoted in Newsweek
  • Economics Professor Gary Smith's Research Referenced in Motley Fool Article
• May
  • Three Pomona College Seniors Win NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
• March
  • L.A. Times Blog Reviews Book on Bob Dylan, Edited by Professor of English Kevin Dettmar
  • Pomona College Researchers Prove Bacteria Can Extract Iron from Clay in Natural Settings; Finding Could Alter Models of Earth's Carbon Cycle
• January
  • Pomona College Professor Receives $216,556 Grant for Innovative Research in Developmental Neuroscience

2008

• November
  • Computer Science professor Tzu-Yi Chen receives $150,000 NSF grant for collaborative project
• October
  • Charles Taylor Receives $90,000 NIST Research Grant
  • Pomona College Professor Receives Grant for Electronic Nose Research
• July
  • Former Geology Professor John Shelton '35's Photographs Exhibited in San Diego
• June
  • M. Frederick Hawthorne '49 Honored With Prestigious Chemistry Award
• May
  • Professor Erica Flapan's Research Work Featured in Science News
  • From Bird Song to Bacteria, From Campus to Dubai to India: Pomona College Awards Record Number Summer Research Grants
• April
  • Pomona College Professor Named Fulbright Scholar to New Zealand
• March
  • Two Pomona College Students Awarded the Prestigious Watson Fellowships
• February
  • Conventional Wisdom Proven Wrong: Dow Jones Stock Deletions Outperform Additions Over Time, According to New Pomona College Research
• January
  • Pomona Math Professor Earns Spot on Scientific American’s Annual SciAm 50

2007

• December
  • New Study Reveals Neural Basis for Tip-of-the-Tongue Experiences
• October
  • Fear Factor: Professor Suzanne Thompson Studies How We Respond to Risk
• September
  • Summer Projects Allow Students to Delve Deeper Into Research Interests
  • Top 10 Ways to Keep Women in Science: Pomona College Professor's List Published in Top Science Journal
• August
  • Green Machine: Solar Rover Will Power Up the Farm
• July
  • Arctic Adventure: Pomona Researchers Spend Summer Hard at Work on Windswept Norwegian Fjord
• May
  • Pomona College Professor of Politics Awarded $195,000 Mellon Foundation Grant
  • Two Pomona College Students Named Beckman Scholars
  • Pomona College Receives $60,000 Grant for Student Research
• January
  • Winter Wonderland: Laurel McFadden '06 Carries on Year-Long Arctic Adventure
  • Pomona College Professor and Student Achieve Nanomechanical Breakthrough

2006

• November
  • As L.A.'s Famous Griffith Observatory Reopens, the Media Discovers Edwin C. Krupp '66
  • Pomona College Professors in Group Receiving $480,000 Grant to Develop Educational Materials
  • David Oxtoby Named a Fellow of The American Association for the Advancement of Science
• September
  • Heartache and Healing
• August
  • Pomona College Research Shows Beating the Stock Market May Be Easier Than Investors Think
• July
  • Sand Scholars
  • Pomona College Research Shows Beating the Stock Market May Be Easier Than Investors Think
• June
  • Pomona Students Pursue SeriousSscience in the Surf and Sand
• May
  • Fulbright Grants Awarded to 12 Members of the Pomona College Class of 2006, Breaking School's Record
• April
  • What Real Estate Bubble?
  • Pomona College Senior Coauthors Study on Ethical Decision-Making in Bioscience Firms
  • Pomona College Professor Gary Wilder Receives $195,000 Fellowship
• March
  • From the Arctic to the Tropics, a pair of Pomona students will explore overseas cultures with prestigious Watson Fellowships.
• February
  • Pomona College Professor Makes Groundbreaking Discovery of Molecular Mechanism Behind Learning and Memory

2005

• December
  • After the Quake
• November
  • Pomona College Professor Helps Solve 30-Year Space Mystery
• October
  • Do Your Initials Spell Earlier Death? New Pomona College Study Contradicts Previous Findings
  • New Tool for Relief Operations in Pakistan Will Increase Effectiveness and Reach of Assistance
• August
  • USA Today, NPR feature Pomona professor's new book on Japanese World War II diaries.
• April
  • Pomona Professor Wins $400,000 National Science Foundation Grant
  • Pomona Senior Receives Fellowship to Study Throat-Singing in Seven Countries
  • Race and the U.S. Economy Is Subject of Two New Books Edited by Pomona College Professor Cecilia Conrad
• March
  • International Cognitive Science Conference to Honor Pomona College Professor Jay David Atlas

2004

• December
  • Pomona Professor Receives National First Book Award for Engaging Study of Copyrights
• November
  • Pomona College Awarded $800,000 Grant to Support Cognitive Science Program
  • Pomona College Senio's Research Recognized at National Science Conference
• July
  • New Book by Professor Reveals Link Between Artisans and Science
  • Pomona Professor Receives $1.4 Million for Her Research on the Impact of Aging on Language and Memory
  • Chemistry Professor's Grant Gives Claremont High Chemistry Teacher Chance to Improve Her Curriculum
• June
  • New Book Examines Mexican American and Mexican Immigrant Relationships in La Puente
  • Pomona Professor Dents High-Profile Theory That Elderly Can Defer Death to See Next Holiday
• May
  • Pomona College to Demonstrate New Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope at Open House
• April
  • Professor Wins Award for Book on Joshua Tree National Park Geology
  • Pomona College Junior Awarded Pfizer Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship
• March
  • Sociology Professor Gilda Ochoa Offers a New Book on Power and Solidarity in the L.A. Chicano Community
  • Pomona Students, Professor Publish Laser Tweezers Research in Professional Journal
• February
  • New Study Offers Insights on Why We Can't Remember "What's-Her-Name"
• January
  • Pomona College Professor Uncovers Bizarre Lifestyle of Trilobites
  • Sharp Inequities Among Public Schools Throughout the Los Angeles Region Found by Education Research Group

2003

• December
  • Running as Ritual: Runner and Professor of Sociology Andrew Roth Combines Sport and Research While Running 100-Meter Ultra-Marathons
• August
  • Fresh Look at Intellectual Property Puts Borrowing, Sampling and Plagiarism in Historical Context
  • Focus on Tribal People Takes Local Professor to Laos and Pakistan and, in an Unexpected Twist, to Southern California
  • New Study on Effects of 9/11 Attacks Charts Impacts and Effective Coping Mechanisms
• July
  • North Ireland's "Marching Season" Culminates on July 12; Expert Available for Comment
  • Parent Reading Style Impacts Children's Social Skills According to New Study
  • Joshua Tree's Unique Landscape Explored in Book Coauthored by Pomona College Professor