Type: Media Release
2012
- October
- September
- August
- Hector Tobar, Author of First-Year Class Book "The Barbarian Nurseries," to Speak at Bridges Auditorium on September 2
- "In the Shadow of Numbers: Charles Gaines Selected Works 1975-2012" Presented by the Pomona College Museum of Art and Pitzer Art Galleries
- "Chart of Landing" Dance Series by Oguri to Be Performed at Pomona College on September 4
- Community Friends of International Students at the Claremont Colleges Receives $5,000 Grant
- June
- Cecilia Conrad to Direct MacArthur Fellows Program
- Pomona College Receives Historic Preservation Award
- Pomona College Class of 2012 and Recent Alumna Awarded 15 Fulbright Fellowships
- Pomona College Awarded $250,000 Grant to Establish Quantitative Studies Center
- Jeanne Buckley Elected Chair of Pomona College Board of Trustees, First Woman to Hold Position
- May
- Seven Professors Receive 2012 Wig Excellence in Teaching Award
- Pomona College Museum of Art Receives National Award of Excellence
- Jamie Goldberg '11 Receives White House Correspondents' Association Scholarship
- Nicholas Sundback '14 and Jesse Vincent '14 Awarded Critical Language Scholarships by the U.S. State Department
- New Book by Professor Char Miller Examines Controversies Surrounding Public Lands
- Vivian Chou '13 and Benjamin Murphy '13 Win Goldwater Scholarships; Naomi Wagner '13 Receives Honorable Mention
- April
- March
- Ringing the Bell: Pomona College Sends Admit Letters For the Class of 2016
- Ballroom Dance Company Wins Formation Event at "Dance by the Shores" Event
- Pomona College Announces Speakers for 119th Commencement Ceremony: Cameron Munter to be Principal Speaker
- Pomona College Museum of Art Presents "An Artist Conversation with Chris Burden and Thomas Crow"
- Geology Team Led by Prof. Robert Gaines Solves 100-Year Mystery of the Burgess Shale
- February
- "It Happened at Pomona: Art at the Edge of Los Angeles 1969-1973 -- Part 3: At Pomona"
- Camille Cole Awarded Gates Cambridge Scholarship
- Pomona College High School Academy Accepting Applications Until February 27
- Will Fletcher '12 Awarded Prestigious Churchill Scholarship
- Pomona College Museum of Art Presents an Artist Conversation Hosted by Helene Winer with John Baldessari, William Leavitt, Allen Ruppersberg
- Pomona to Host 700 High School Students for the Orange County AVID 9th Grade Leadership Conference
- January
- "The Origins of Islam" Subject of Pomona College Lecture Series
- "The Paradox of Choice: Why More is Less" Author Barry Schwartz to Lecture at Pomona College Lecture
- Professor and Associate Dean Jonathan Wright to Receive Inaugural Faculty Alumni Service Award
- Pomona College February 2012 Events
- "Performance at Pomona" on January 21, Featuring Judy Chicago, James Turrell and John M. White, a Part of PST Performance and Public Art Festival
2011
- November
- October
- Pomona College's 2010-11 Sustainability Report Shows Progress in Water, Landfill Waste Reduction
- Pomona College Named Best Value Among Liberal Arts Colleges By Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine
- Pomona College Among Top Producers of U.S. Fulbrights Among Bachelor's Institutions
- 16th Annual Southern California A Cappella Music Festival to be Held at Pomona College on Nov. 4
- New Pomona College Residence Halls Earn LEED Platinum, Making Them Among Greenest in the Nation
- Pomona College & Harvey Mudd College Receive $546,273 Grant for Field-Emission Scanning Electron Microscope
- Mary Raymond, New Director of CDO, Receives Fulbright Scholarship
- Maya Soetoro-Ng to Discuss "Building a Life of Global Engagement" at Pomona College Founders Day
- Pomona College Receives $600,000 Grant and Launches Four-Year Arts Initiative
- "The Vexing Progress of the DREAM Act" Subject of Oct. 10 Lecture at Pomona College
- Pomona College Dining Celebrates Sustainable Fish Certification With Special Dinner on Oct. 13
- Recent Pomona College Faculty Promotions and Reappointments
- September
- Pomona Student Union Presents Panel on Expertise: "10,000 Hours: Does Practice Make Perfect?"
- Activist Mia Mingus to Give Lecture at Pomona College on Disability Justice
- Pomona Student Union Presents a Debate on Class-Based Affirmative Action at Top Colleges
- Pomona College Celebrates Opening of Two of the Nation's Greenest Residence Halls
- October 2011 Events at Pomona College
- New Study by Professor Suzanne Thompson Explores How People React to Health and Safety Warnings
- Acclaimed Baritone Thomas Hampson to Perform at Pomona College
- August
- Celliola and Friends Premiere Work Written in Memory of 9/11/01
- Summer Undergraduate Research Program Awarded $600,000
- September 2011 Events at Pomona College
- Pomona College Students Among Happiest, Professors Among Most Accessible, According to The Princeton Review
- Princeton Review Names Pomona One of the Nation's Top 10 for Financial Aid
- Pomona College Ranked #11 in Graduating Seniors Joining Teach for America in 2011
- Donna Di Grazia and Eric Grosfils Appointed to Named Professorships
- July
- June
- Pomona College Becomes First Liberal Arts College to Obtain Marine Stewardship Council Sustainable Seafood Certification
- Prof. Robert Gaines Receives $184,036 NSF Grant for Project Investigating Origins of Complex Life
- "It Happened at Pomona": The First of Three Exhibitions Examining Seminal Art at the Pomona College Museum of Art to Open August 30
- Pomona College Hosts "Asia Rising & the Rise of Asian America" Conference
- Operation Clean Sweep at Pomona College Discovers "Treasures," Benefits Community & Reduces College Landfill Waste in May by 52%
- Ariel Gandolfo '11 and Daniel Low '11 to Work in Honduran Orphanage Via a Davis Projects for Peace Grant
- May
- "Poet of Democracy" Walt Whitman's Political Influence Explained in New Book Edited by Professor John Seery
- Eleanor Caves '11 Awarded Downing Scholarship to Study at Cambridge
- Pomona College Named to President's Community Service Honor Roll
- Pomona College Class of 2011 & Recent Alumni Awarded 23 Prestigious Fulbright Fellowships
- Video: Daring Minds Lectures From Pomona College's 2011 Alumni Weekend
- Research by Professor Deborah Burke Disproves Conventional Wisdom, Finding Older Adults Are Less Easily Distracted
- 2011 Commencement Videos and Photos Now Available to View
- Seth Allen Named Vice President and Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid at Pomona College
- Alexandra Gutowski '13 Awarded Scholarship to Study Arabic in Syria
- Four Pomona College Students Receive Critical Language Scholarships
- Six Pomona College Faculty Receive Wig Excellence in Teaching Award
- Gabriel Friedman '12 Awarded $10,000 Strauss Foundation Scholarship to Start Music Mentoring Program in Pomona Valley
- Pomona College Ranked 3rd of the Top 10 Colleges With the Highest Four-Year Graduation Rates
- April
- Caress Reeves '12 Awarded Beinecke Scholarship to Pursue Animation Studies
- Professor Kathleen Fitzpatrick and MediaCommons Awarded Mellon Grant to Assess Peer-to-Peer Review
- Prof. Char Miller Interviewed on PBS's "American Masters: John Muir in the New World"
- Rose Hills Foundation Gives $200,000 Grant to Summer Undergraduate Research Program
- Griffith Observatory Director Ed Krupp '66 to Speak on Mayan End Times Calendar Follies
- Raymond Lu '11 Awarded Carnegie Fellowship
- Pomona's Mobile Solar Energy Station, SolTrain, Wins Award
- Pomona College to Host Lecture About India and Prostitution in Cinema
- Pomona College Hosts 5th Annual New York Times Crossword Puzzle Contest
- The Claremont Colleges to Host West Coast LGBTQA Career Conference
- March
- Performance Artist/Comedian D'Lo to Perform at Pomona College
- Isaac Jenkins '10 Wins UK Fulbright Grant to Study Refugees and Forced Migration
- Pomona College April 2011 Events
- "The Politics of Muslim Religious Identity Among Youth" Lecture at Pomona College on March 29
- Electro-Hip-Hop Band LMFAO and Comedian Aziz Ansari to Perform at Pomona College
- Professor Arash Khazeni Wins 2010 Middle East Studies Association Book Award
- Pomona College Announces Speakers for 118th Commencement
- February
- Bill Gates to Visit Harvey Mudd College and Pomona College on March 10
- Pomona College Ranked a "Best Value" Among Liberal Arts Colleges by Second National Publication
- Martha Graham Dance Company to Perform at Pomona With Students on March 1
- "Egypt for the Egyptians": An Expert Panel Discussion on the Uprisings in the Middle East
- Original Student Plays to Be Performed This Friday at the 10-Minute Play Festival
- Pomona College March 2011 Events
- Screening of Oliver Stone Film "South of the Border" With Filmmaker Q&A on February 17
- Pomona College 9th Annual High-School Physics Workshop to Focus on Electromagnetism
- Michael Gormally '11 Awarded Coveted Cambridge Scholarship
- Annual Sustainability Film Festival Features Two Academy-Award Nominees
- January
- Pomona College Wins the Claremont Colleges Power Down Challenge
- Student Curators Uncover "Secret" Past of Orozco Mural "Prometheus" on 80th Anniversary
- Department of Music Announces 2011 Spring Concert Season
- Award-Winning Poet Sonia Sanchez to Give Sojourner Truth Lecture on Feb. 10
- Van Jones, Green Jobs Advocate and Civil Rights Activist, to Give Pomona College Distinguished Lecture
- Pomona College Museum of Art Features Documentary Photography in "China: Insights" Exhibition
- Pomona College Events: January-February 2011
2010
- December
- November
- Media Release: Pomona Anthropology Professor Receives National Lifetime Achievement Award
- Claremont Colleges Ballroom Dance Company Festival December 3-4 Includes Dance Lessons and More
- Bruce Poch to Step Down as Pomona College Dean of Admissions
- New Book by Prof. Bryan Penprase, "The Power of Stars," Traces Cultural Roots of Modern Astronomy
- New York Times National Editor to Discuss Midterm Elections at Pomona College
- Pomona College Tower to Chime Again, This Time on the 47th Minute
- October
- Pomona College November 2010 Events
- Pomona Named a Best Value Among Liberal Arts Colleges by Kiplinger's
- New 2009-10 Sustainability Report Shows Progress in Water and Landfill Waste Reduction at Pomona
- Pomona College Recognized as a Leader in College Sustainability
- Professor Bryan Penprase Participates in Largest Study Ever of Near-Earth Asteroids
- "Project Series 42: M.A. Peers" Opens at Pomona College Museum of Art on Oct. 30
- The Pomona College Department of Theatre and Dance Presents Henrik Ibsen's "John Gabriel Borkman" October 7-10
- September
- Pomona College Museum of Art Receives $10,000 NEA Grant to Support Education Programming for "China: Insights"
- "Art After Hours" Thursdays at the Pomona College Museum of Art
- Professor Daniel Martinez Awarded $1.26 Million Grant to Study Mechanisms Related to Aging in Hydra
- Pomona College October 2010 Events
- The Pomona College Board of Trustees Elects Three New Members
- New Fossil Bed Discovery by Royal Ontario Museum/Pomona College Team Challenges Assumptions About Famous Fossil Site
- July
- New Study by Sadie Barr '09 and Prof. Wright Finds Eating Whole Foods vs. Processed Foods Burns More Calories
- In Memoriam: David Alexander, Distinguished President of Pomona College (1969-1991)
- Using High-Speed Video, Prof. Dwight Whitaker and Co-Author Discover a Plant That Produces Mushroom Clouds for Spore Dispersal
- Pomona College Museum of Art Features New Photo Collages and Drawings in "Project Series 41: Ginny Bishton"
- Pomona College Museum of Art Features New Large-Scale Installation and Paintings in "Steve Roden: when words become forms"
- "Volcanoes: Global Perspectives" Published Just Weeks After Eruption in Iceland Reminds World of Their Power and Widespread Impacts
- June
- May
- Six Win Pomona's Wig Distinguished Professor Award for Excellence in Teaching
- Christopher Fiorello '11 Awarded a Beinecke Scholarship
- Professor Philip Choi Wins $637,138 Grant for Advanced Telescope Optics System
- Eleanor Caves '12 Wins Goldwater Scholarship
- Five Pomona College Students Receive Critical Language Scholarships
- Daniel Low '11 Awarded $36,000 in Scholarships to Continue Public Health Work in Africa
- Thomas Lane '10 Wins NSF Graduate Fellowship
- April
- Jonathan Lethem Appointed Disney Professor of Creative Writing at Pomona College
- PSU Presents Panel Discussion on "The Hook-Up Culture: Why We Don't Date"
- Professor Alma Martinez Brings "Zoot Suit" to National Theatre Company of Mexico
- Oakley Chairman Scott Olivet '84 to Speak at Revamped Class Day
- Pomona College's Smith Campus Center Wins Facility Design Award for Renovation
- Pomona College Chemistry Professor Awarded $213,000 Grant
- Award-Winning Historian to Give Lecture on Slave Women Across Generations
- March
- Pomona College April 2010 Events
- Junior High Students Perform "As You Like It" Interwoven with Personal Stories at Pomona College
- Organist William Peterson Celebrates 30 Years at Pomona With a Performance
- Three Appointed to Named Professorships at Pomona College
- Professor Daniel Martinez Coauthors Paper in "Nature" on Sequencing of the Hydra Genome
- Janet Napolitano to Be Principal Speaker at Pomona's 117th Commencement
- "Your Brain, Its Language and Its Politics" Lecture to be Held at Pomona College
- February
- Pomona Student Union Debate: The Ethics of Abortion
- Pomona College President Named Board Chair of the Association of American College and Universities
- Art Professor Lisa Anne Auerbach Receives Tiffany Foundation Award
- Pomona Student Union Panel: "Is California Governable?"
- Justice Sandra Day O'Connor to Deliver the 2009-10 Pomona College Distinguished Speakers Series Lecture
- Award-Winning Author Edwidge Danticat to Give Sojourner Truth Lecture, Feb. 18
- "Preparedness and Mitigation as Aid: Preventing Another Haitian Crisis" Lecture at Pomona College
- January
- Museum Awarded $220,000 Getty Foundation Grant to Support Upcoming Exhibition
- Pomona College Professor Receives Outstanding Academic Title Award for Book on Los Angeles Unified School District
- Pomona College Museum of Art Presents "Helen Pashgian: Working in Light," an Exhibition of New Work by Pioneering Light and Space Artist Helen Pashgian
- Pomona College Museum of Art Features a New Multimedia Installation in "Project Series 40: Amanda Ross-Ho"
- Pomona College Museum of Art Exhibition Features Selection of Photographs Donated by the Andy Warhol Foundation
- Pomona College Presents New Film Festival About Food and Farming
- Renowned Pianists Karl and Margaret Kohn to Perform at Pomona College
- Pomona College Student Studying Anti-Malarial Compounds Wins Prestigious Pfizer Fellowship
2009
- December
- 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
- Film Screening: Papers: The Movie to Be Screened Nov. 18 at Pomona College
- Pomona College Expert to Lecture on Oil, Culture and Society in Venezuela
- Pomona College Receives $25,000 Grant for Summer Undergraduate Research
- U.S. Ninth Circuit Judges to Discuss: "Governing With the Gavel?"
- Comedian Sarah Haskins on Gender in Advertising: "All Women Love Yogurt, Right?"
- Student's Tuberculosis Research in Kenya Is Subject of Upcoming Journal Article
- Pomona College Ranked the Best Value Among Liberal Arts Colleges
- A Cappella Festival Slated for Nov. 6 at Pomona College
- Pomona Student Union Presents Debate: "Media Bias: Can We Trust the News?"
- October
- Pomona College November 2009 Events
- Contemporary Chamber Group EnsembleGREEN to Perform at Pomona College
- Corde a Vide to Perform at Pomona College
- RED Digital Cinema and Oakley Inc. Chair, D. Scott Olivet, Appointed to Pomona College Board of Trustees
- Pomona College Museum of Art Features New Multimedia Installation in "Project Series 39: Rachel Mayeri"
- "A Restless Country: Selections From the Permanent Collection" at the Pomona College Museum of Art
- For Third Year, Pomona College Leads Peers in Fulbright Fellowships, Tops Research Universities per Capita
- Pomona College Receives $7.5 Million for Sustainable Residence Hall
- Pomona College Recognized as a Leader in College Sustainability
- Pomona College Dedicates New Draper Center for Community Partnerships
- Los Angeles Times Columnist Steve Lopez to Discuss His Book "The Soloist"
- Pianist Genevieve Feiwen Lee to Perform at Pomona College
- September
- Former Congressmen Discuss "The Age of Obama" at Pomona College Congress to Campus Program
- Pomona College Professor John Seery Wins National Phi Beta Kappa Award
- L.A. Citizens Weigh In on Global Climate Policy
- Leading Experts to Debate: "Drug Wars: Legalization or Prohibition?"
- "Stuff White People Like" Blogger Christian Lander to Speak at Pomona College
- Pomona College Professors Awarded More Than $1 Million in Research and Lab Development Grants
- August
- Pomona College September 2009 Events
- The Pomona College Museum of Art Presents "The New Normal"
- Pomona College Unveils New Draper Center for Community Partnerships
- Pomona College Museum of Art Features New Paintings in "Project Series 38: Constance Mallinson"
- Pomona College Receives $300,000 Grant for Summer Undergraduate Research
- July
- Pomona College Is Best in Nation for Classroom Experience and in Top Five for Great Financial Aid, According to Princeton Review
- As Secretary Clinton heads to Africa August 5: Expert Available on African Politics and US-Africa Foreign Relations
- Sophie Dowse '09 Awarded Rotary Scholarship for Study in Australia
- June
- May
- Pomona College Students Rescue 400 Meals Per Week, Receive $10,000 to Expand Program
- Pomona College Museum Director Selected for Getty Leadership Institute
- Pomona College Museum of Art Assistant Director Selected for National Conference on "Stewardship of America's Legacy: Answering the Call to Action"
- April
- Harlem Ambassadors to Play at Pomona in Charity Game
- Three Pomona College Science Students Awarded Prestigious Beckman and Goldwater Scholarships
- Award-Winning Expert to Give Lecture on Gender and Science
- Pomona College Lecture on Gay Cuban Authors
- Pomona College Students Win $10,000 to Help Vietnamese-Americans in New Orleans
- A Native American Legend and the New England Landscape Subject of Guest Lecture
- JP Morgan Chase President to Speak on "The World Crisis in Banking"
- Best-Selling Author Reza Aslan to Speak "On the State of Middle Eastern Affairs"
- Cuba-U.S. Relations Expert to Speak at Pomona College
- Paul Efron Elected Chair of Pomona College Board of Trustees
- March
- Pomona College Receives $50,000 for Young Scholars Program
- David Plouffe, Obama Campaign Manager, Inaugurates Pomona College Speakers Series on March 25 at 8 p.m.
- James Morone to Discuss "The Politics of Sin" on April 2 at Pomona College
- Two Pomona College Students Awarded Prestigious Watson Fellowships
- Pomona College April 2009 Events
- Poet and Translator Jen Hofer, 2009 Moseley Fellow in Creative Writing, Will Give a Reading, at Pomona College, on April 21
- World-Renowned Performance Artist Guillermo Gomez-Pena to Present Show at Pomona College
- February
- Pomona College President Named Vice Chair of Association of American College and Universities
- Pomona College Jazz Concert Featuring Bobby Bradford and the Mo'Tet
- A Cappella International Quarterfinals at Pomona College Feb. 14
- Pomona College Panel Discussion: "Human Rights in the 21st Century"
- Comedian Bill Santiago's Live Performance: "Pardon My Spanglish"
- "The Many Lives of RNA" Subject of Pomona College Lecture Series
- Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra Members to Perform at Pomona College
- Pomona College March 2009 Events
- January
- Pomona College Ranked the Best Value Among Liberal Arts Colleges
- Pomona College February 2009 Events
- Pomona College Workshop Provides "Motion & Forces" Physics Lessons for High School Teachers
- Pomona College Ranked a Best Value Among Liberal Arts Colleges by Second National Publication
- Pomona College Museum of Art Features "suddenly: where we live now," an Exhibition Exploring the Future Life of Cities
- Pomona College Professor Receives $216,556 Grant for Innovative Research in Developmental Neuroscience
- Pomona College Hosts French Film Festival: Feb. 6 to March 6, 2009
- "Globalization and the Nation-State" Subject of Lecture at Pomona College
2008
- November
- Pomona College Museum of Art Awarded $190,000 Getty Foundation Grant
- "China's Place In the Global Financial Crisis" Subject of Pomona College Lecture
- Environmental Trade-Offs: Dams Versus Salmon Panel at Pomona College
- Leading Finance Expert Lectures on Distressed Investing
- Pomona College Lecture on the Future of Biotechnology
- Pomona College Artist Mark Allen's "Machine Project" at LACMA on Saturday
- October
- Pomona College Museum of Art Exhibits "Kara Walker: Annotating History"
- Pomona College Professor Receives Grant for Electronic Nose Research
- Pomona College Leads Peers in Fulbright Fellowships, Tops Research Universities in Fulbrights per Capita
- November 2008 Events at Pomona College
- "Newsweek Editor" and Best-Selling Author to Analyze Election Results at Pomona College, Nov. 6
- 2008 Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author Junot Diaz to Give Reading at Pomona College
- A Cappella Festival Slated for Nov. 7 at Pomona College
- Pomona College Lecture on "Energy Options for America"
- Cecilia Conrad Named VP and Dean of Pomona College
- September
- PC Magazine Names Pomona College One of Top Five Wired Colleges
- Pomona College Music Department Presents "Celliola and Friends"
- The Pacific Basin Institute at Pomona College Presents Series on Sustainability and Consumption in Asia
- October 2008 Events at Pomona College
- The World-Renowned Martin Neary Conducts The Millennium Consort Singers
- August
- July
- June
- Pomona College Hosts Program to Increase Success of Minority Women Students in Graduate Mathematics Programs "Giving the EDGE to Women in Mathematics"
- Co-authors of "Houseonomics" Available to Explain Why Owning a Home Is Still a Great Investment
- Pomona College Tops Peers in 2007 Fulbright Fellowships, Tops Research Universities in Fulbrights per Capita
- Pomona College Class of 2008 Awarded 17 Fulbright Fellowships
- May
- Pomona College Junior Wins 2008 Rudolph Polk Memorial Award in Music Given by the Claremont University Consortium
- Two Pomona College Juniors Win Fellowships for Aspiring Teachers of Color
- Pomona College Financial Aid Director Patricia Coye to Retire
- Pomona College Senior Selected as Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar
- Pomona College Juniors and Seniors Awarded Goldwater and National Science Foundation Fellowships
- New National Survey of College Student Political Behavior & Attitudes
- Pomona College Model Arab League Delegation Awarded an Honorable Mention
- Seven Exceptional Pomona College Faculty Members Voted Wig Professors by Students
- Three Appointed to Named Professorships at Pomona College
- From Bird Song to Bacteria, From Campus to Dubai to India: Pomona College Awards Record Number Summer Research Grants
- April
- Zoot Suit Returns After 30-Year Absence; Outreach Focuses on Area Teens
- Visual Illusions, Nanosurgery and Light Bending Subjects of Public Lectures at Pomona College
- Spoken Word Artist Suheir Hammad to Perform at Pomona College Friday, April 18, 2008
- Palestinian and Israeli Youth Activists to Speak at Pomona College
- Wizards of Finance to Lecture at Pomona College
- U.N. Consultant to Give Lecture on “Islamic Feminism and the Women’s Movement in the Islamic Republic of Iranâ€
- Health Care Debate at Pomona College: A critical examination of presidential candidates' health care policies
- Pomona College Lecture on “Why We Need to Recast the Debate on Immigrationâ€
- Pomona College Holds 115th Commencement: Producer/Director Alex Gibney Will Be Keynote Speaker
- Pomona College Student Eleanor Cameron Wins Award for Best Molecular Biology Talk
- Debate Union Places Second at National Championship
- Pomona College Professor Named Fulbright Scholar to New Zealand
- Pomona College Takes Sixth in College Bowl National Championship, Sophomore Named to All-Star Team
- March
- "Environmentalism and Social Justice" Subject of Pomona College Lecture
- Claremont Colleges Celebrate Cesar Chavez With Series of Events
- Pomona College Named One of the Nation's Best Values in Liberal Arts Education
- Pomona College Workshop Provides Physics Lessons for High School Teachers
- L.A.'s Chief Administrative Officer Named New VP and Treasurer of Pomona College
- 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
- March 2008: 40th Anniversary of First Chicano Student Walkouts; Experts Available
- Pomona Math Professor Named to Scientific American's Top 50 Innovators
- Pomona College Wins College Bowl Regional Competition, Advances to Nationals
- January
2007
- December
- October
- Pomona College Professor Named to Chemistry Hall of Fame
- First-Ever Claremont Colleges Wall Street Weekend Brings Top Finance Experts to Campus
- "Project Series 34: Iva Gueorguieva" Opens at the Pomona College Museum of Art
- Pomona College Theatre Presents "Melancholy Play" by Sarah Ruhl, Pulitzer Prize Finalist
- Pomona College Students Create Slinky Bomb, Win $25,000 in Computer Game Contest
- Car-Sharing Comes to the Claremont Colleges
- Pomona College Is No. 1 in Fulbright Fellowships Among Liberal Arts Peers, Tops Research Universities in Fulbrights Per Capita
- Expert Available on Wildfire Policy and Southern California
- September
- PBI Lecture: "Islam in China and Beyond: Connecting Asia with the U.S. and the Middle East"
- The Pacific Basin Institute at Pomona College Presents the Series: "Muslim Asia: Cultures, Contexts, and Connections"
- "Martyrdom, Persecution, Politics" Is Subject of Religion Lecture Series at Pomona College
- "Hollywood Left and Right: How Movie Stars Shaped American Politics" Lecture at Pomona College
- Top 10 Ways to Keep Women in Science: Pomona College Professor's List Published in Top Science Journal
- August
- May
- Pomona College Professor of Politics Awarded $195,000 Mellon Foundation Grant
- Pomona College Delegation Wins Model Arab League Western Regional Competition
- Two Pomona College Students Named Beckman Scholars
- Daniel Hickstein Awarded Churchill Scholarship to Cambridge
- Evan Hall and Sylvan Long Awarded Downing Scholarships to Cambridge
- Extraordinary Student Leadership on Environmental Practices Celebrated at Pomona College Graduation
- Ajoy Vase Awarded Rockefeller Fellowship for Aspiring Teachers of Color
- Five Exceptional Pomona College Faculty Members Voted Wig Professors by Students
- Claremont Colleges Transfer Bridges Auditorium Ownership to Pomona College
- Goldwater Fellowships Awarded to Pomona College Students
- Fulbright Grants Awarded to 24 Members of the Pomona College Class of 2007, Breaking School's Record
- Pomona College Receives $60,000 Grant for Student Research
- April
- March
- Internationally Acclaimed Organist Martin Jean to Perform at Pomona College
- Award-Winning Author to Lecture on Renowned Feminist Artist Judy Chicago
- Pomona College Named One of the Nation's Best Values in Liberal Arts Education
- Pomona College Presents Annual Ena H. Thompson Lecture Series "Film, Race, and History"
- National Book Award Finalist Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum to Give Reading at Pomona College
- "I'm No Angel" The Blonde in Fiction and Film" Author to Give Reading at Pomona College
- February
- Angela Davis to Discuss Civil and Human Rights in Pomona College Talk
- Visual Politics in California Subject of Lecture at Pomona College
- Award-Winning Poet and Translator Erin Moure to Give Reading at Pomona College
- Pomona College Hosts Symposium on "The Sixth War 2006: Israel, Lebanon and the Creation of the 'New Middle East'"
- Miriam Feldblum Named Vice President and Dean of Students at Pomona College
- Pomona College Lecture on Religious Violence in the Pacific Basin
- "Moral Consequences of Economic Growth" Is Subject of Pomona College Event
- Pomona College Dedicates New Academic Buildings Built to U.S. Green Building Standards
- January
- Robert A. Walton Announced as Chief Executive Officer for Claremont University Consortium
- "Kickboxing Geishas": A Lecture at Pomona College on How Modern Japanese Women are Changing Japan
- Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author Lectures at Pomona College on "America in the Age of Genocide"
- "Play Like a Girl" Pomona-Pitzer Athletes Provide Inspiration to Middle School Girls
- Playwright/Director Luis Valdez Leads Theatre Workshop at Pomona College
- Comedian Lewis Black Performs at Pomona College
- Acclaimed Pianist Performs at Ussachevsky Memorial Festival at Pomona College
- Pomona College Professor and Student Achieve Nanomechanical Breakthrough
- Tuvan Throat Singers to Perform at Pomona College
- Pomona College Workshop Provides "Cool & Groovy" Physics Lessons for High School Teachers
- New York Times Foreign Editor to Explain Why Covering Iraq is "A War Like No Other"
2006
- December
- November
- Southern California A Cappella Festival Slated for Nov. 3 at Pomona College
- Pomona College Biology Building Receives National Environmental Award
- Polish Puppet Theatre Troupe Performs at Pomona College
- Pomona College Professors in Group Receiving $480,000 Grant to Develop Educational Materials
- Political Islam Subject of Pomona College Panel
- David Oxtoby Named a Fellow of The American Association for the Advancement of Science
- October
- Pomona College Student Union Debates America's Role in the World
- Pomona College Theatre Presents "Arcadia" by Tom Stoppard
- Award-Winning Humorist David Sedaris Coming to Pomona College
- Jean Walton Memorial Service Set for October 28, 2006
- "Telling Our Stories: Japanese Americans in the San Fernando Valley" Exhibit Coming to Pomona College
- Pomona College Courses Receive National Recognition
- "Japan's Changing International Role": Lecture by Dr. Masahiro Kohara at Pomona College
- Michael Armacost to Lecture on U.S. Policy in North East Asia at Pomona College
- The Pomona College Museum of Art Presents "Wide Angle: Recent Photography Acquisitions"
- "LA Freewaves: New Videos by Oliver Ressler" Opens at the Pomona College Museum of Art
- "Project Series 31: Katie Grinnan: The Rise and Fall" Opens at the Pomona College Museum of Art
- Pomona College Names Three to Board of Trustees
- September
- Pomona College Faculty Members Recognized With Endowed Professorships
- Screenwriter/Producer/Director Tom Musca Named 2006-2007 Moseley Fellow in Creative Writing at Pomona College
- Carolyn Bartel Lyon Memorial Service Set for Sept. 30, 2006
- Author Lectures on Japan's "Lost Generation"
- "Life at the Limits" Claremont Colleges Lecture Series Continues Sept. 28
- Pomona College Student Hannah Crumme Appointed to National Hillel Board
- Lucerne Festival Strings 50th Anniversary Tour Comes to Pomona College
- U.S. Foreign Policy and Power Focus of Pomona College Hart Lecture Series
- Pomona College to Participate in Teach-in on Guantanamo
- August
- June
- May
- Six Exceptional Pomona College Faculty Members Voted Wig Professors by Students
- David Alexander Elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Fulbright Grants Awarded to 12 Members of the Pomona College Class of 2006, Breaking School's Record
- Pomona College Prof. Arden Reed Receives Guggenheim Fellowship
- April
- Pomona College to Hold 113th Commencement on May 14
- Frank B. Gibney, 81, One of the Nation's Preeminent Experts on Asia and President of the Pacific Basin Institute at Pomona College, Has Died
- Pomona College Senior Coauthors Study on Ethical Decision-Making in Bioscience Firms
- Pomona College Professor Gary Wilder Receives $195,000 Fellowship
- New President of the Pacific Basin Institute at Pomona College Selected
- March
- Author Charles Baxter to Give Reading at Pomona College
- Korean Films Are Focus of Seventh Annual Asian Film Festival Hosted by the Pacific Basin Institute at Pomona College
- Pomona College Theatre Presents "Big Love"
- A Conversation With Raymond Pettibon at the Pomona College Museum of Art
- Two Directing Debuts and an Original Play Showcased in Pomona College Theatre Productions
- Challenges in the Contemporary Middle East to Be Examined in Pomona College Symposium
- Pomona College Symposium Focuses on Mexico's Upcoming Presidential Election
- Pianist Robert Satterlee to Premier Rzewski's "Second Hand, or Alone at last" in Pomona College Performance
- Pomona College Presents Author Michael Shermer on "The Boundaries of Religion and Belief"
- Best-Selling Mystery Writer Paula L. Woods Named 2005-2006 Moseley Fellow in Creative Writing at Pomona College
- February
- Pomona College Workshop Provides High School Physics Teachers With Experiments for Their Classrooms
- Debate on Prisoner Detention at Guantanamo to Be Hosted at Pomona College
- Japanese Manga Comic Symposium to Be Held at Pomona College
- Best-Selling Memoirist and Novelist Anchee Min to Give Reading at Pomona College
- Pomona College Professor Makes Groundbreaking Discovery of Molecular Mechanism Behind Learning and Memory
- Symposium on "Vietnam and the Major Powers" to Be Held at Pomona College
- Jim Taylor, Academy Award Winning Screenwriter, to Speak at Pomona College
- “China, Energy & U.S. Security†Symposium to Be Held at Pomona College
- January
2005
- December
- November
- Susan Estrich, Political Strategist and News Commentator, To Speak on the Political Scene & Media Coverage
- Acclaimed Guitarist and Percussionist to Perform at Pomona College
- American Star on Chinese Television to Speak at Pomona College
- Panel to Explore Science in the American Media At Pomona College Event
- Stem Cell Research, it’s Ethical and Political Implications, Subject of Debate at Pomona College
- Pomona College Theatre Presents Sondheim’s “Into the Woodsâ€
- Pomona College Professor Helps Solve 30-Year Space Mystery
- October
- Former Senate Leader John Burton to Speak on Redistricting Initiative in Pomona Student Union Event
- Pomona Student Union Debate on the Consequences of Debt Relief for Africa
- Do Your Initials Spell Earlier Death? New Pomona College Study Contradicts Previous Findings
- Pomona College to Screen Film on Islam and Southeast Asia
- New Tool for Relief Operations in Pakistan Will Increase Effectiveness and Reach of Assistance
- Collection of WWII Japanese Diaries Offers Powerful Accounts of the Impacts of War
- September
- Pakistani Education: Pomona College Professor’s Lecture Exposes Media Frenzy and Sets the Record Straight
- Pomona Student Union to Hold Debate on the Supreme Court’s Future
- New Republic Editor to Speak on China’s Power and International Foreign Policy in Pomona Student Union Event
- Expert Available on North Korean Deal on Nuclear Arms and the Impact on Northeast Asian Security
- China's Economic and Diplomatic Resurgence is Subject of Lecture at Pomona College
- Pulitzer-Prize Winning Novelist Edward P. Jones to Give Reading at Pomona College
- "Jesus for President" Pomona College Lecture on a Constitutional Amendment on Age Qualifications for Federal Office
- Noted Civil Rights Attorney John Payton Named to Pomona College Board of Trustees
- August
- Groundbreaking ceremony for new academic buildings set for Aug. 30.
- "Keys to the Koop: Humor and Satire in Contemporary Printmaking" Opens at the Pomona College Museum of Art
- "Project Series 27: Kaz Oshiro" Opens at Museum of Art
- Pomona College Senior Wins Library Prize
- Pomona College Ranked #6 in U.S. News & World Report
- July
- June
- May
- Pomona College’s Clarence “Motts†Thomas Honored by Pomona Unified School District
- Six Exceptional Pomona College Faculty Members Voted Wig Professors by Students
- Three Pomona College Students Awarded Rotary Club Ambassadorial Scholarships
- Manuel Ricardo Townes Appointed Dean of Campus Life at Pomona College
- Pomona College Appoints Director of College Writing
- Kingdom of Heaven Is A Step Forward in Portrayal of Both Sides in Crusades, Says History Professor
- April
- Community Health Fair at Pomona College To Provide Medical Assistance for Low-Income Families
- Pomona Professor Wins $400,000 National Science Foundation Grant
- Pomona College Dance Concert 2005
- 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
- Pomona College Junior Kameelah Rasheed Lands Two Big Scholarships after Whirlwind Trip
- Pomona College Junior Receives Beinecke Scholarship To Pursue Graduate Degree in Social Psychology
- Best-Selling Mystery Writer Paula L. Woods Named 2005-2006 Moseley Fellow in Creative Writing At Pomona College
- Four Pomona Students Awarded Goldwater Scholarships
- Pomona College Holds 112th Commencement on Sunday, May 15
- Students At Pomona College Get Rare Opportunity Involving a Mars Spacecraft
- March
- Silk Road Theatre Project Comes to Pomona College
- Suzan-Lori Parks, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Playwright, To Speak at Pomona College
- “Caring for Circumcised Women†Subject of Sojourner Truth Lecture Series At Pomona College
- International Cognitive Science Conference to Honor Pomona College Professor Jay David Atlas
- Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room - Film Screening at Pomona College
- Peking Opera & Kabuki Focus of Pomona College Lectures
- Outstanding Faculty Mentors at Pomona College Recognized With Fellowships
- Verlyn Klinkenborg, Author & Essayist, Serving as 2005 Moseley Fellow at Pomona College
- Romeo & Juliet On Stage at Pomona College
- February
- Chinese Films are Focus of Sixth Annual Asian Film Festival Hosted by the Pacific Basin Institute at Pomona College
- Local Star Science Teacher Enriqueta Ramirez Earns Pomona College Inspirational Young Alumni Award for 2005
- Pulitzer Prize-Winning Cartoonist Art Spiegelman To Speak at Pomona College
- Middle School Girls To Get Coaching, Inspiration From Pomona-Pitzer Women Athletes
- How Israel Lost: Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist & Author To Speak at Pomona College
- "Cast-Iron Chef" Competition On the Menu for Pomona College
- High School Physics Teachers Get Help From Pomona
- 25th Annual Woodford-Eckis Lectureship Brings Prominent Geologists to Pomona College
- Pomona College Summer Scholars Program Now Accepting Applications From Ninth-Graders
- Award-Winning Poet Cole Swensen To Give Reading at Pomona College
- Chris Dialynas Named to Pomona College Board of Trustees
- “Reading Human Bones†Subject of Pomona College Lecture Series
- Why the Democrats Lost & What They Need to Do, Subject of Debate at Pomona College
- Pomona College Dedicates New Energy-Conscious Biology Building
- China’s Soaring Economy, the Political Implications & Environmental Consequences are the subjects of Pomona College Conference
- Alumna Gives $10 Million to Pomona College For Construction of Two New Buildings
2004
- December
- November
- Pomona College Professor Receives National Credit Union Achievement Award
- New Bilingual Memoir Takes Readers on Lyrical Multicultural Journey
- Pomona College Awarded $800,000 Grant to Support Cognitive Science Program
- Cecilia Conrad Named Associate Dean at Pomona College
- Award-Winning Novelist Jonathan Franzen to Give Reading at Pomona College
- Pomona College Senio's Research Recognized at National Science Conference
- Former U.S. Army Chief of Staff Eric Shinseki to Lecture at Pomona College
- Pomona College Hosts Debate on U.S. Immigration Policy by National Commentators
- Pomona College Welcomes Eight New Faculty Members
- October
- September
- August
- July
- Students Receive Prestigious Fellowship Awards for Study Abroad
- New Book by Professor Reveals Link Between Artisans and Science
- Pomona College Promotes 11 Outstanding Professors
- Record Number of Pomona College Seniors Awarded Fulbright Fellowships
- 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
- New Director Appointed to Pomona College Museum of Art
- Two Named to Board of Trustees of Pomona College
- New Director Appointed to Oldenborg Center at Pomona College
- May
- Pomona College Announces 11 Winners of Avery China Adventure Program Grants
- Pomona College to Demonstrate New Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope at Open House
- Pomona College Senior Wins First Place in Elie Wiesel Essay Contest
- Three Pomona College Professors Appointed to Endowed Chairs
- Five Exceptional Pomona College Faculty Members Voted Wig Professors by Students
- Pomona College Receives $1.3 Million Grant for Science Education
- Pomona College Physics Professor Leads Kids on Adventure in Magnification
- April
- Pomona College Student Wins Prestigious Fellowship
- Three Pomona College Students Awarded Goldwater Scholarships
- Same-Sex Marriage Debate Comes to Pomona College
- Professor Wins Award for Book on Joshua Tree National Park Geology
- Pomona College Junior Awarded Pfizer Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship
- Pomona College Student Awarded Beinecke Brothers Memorial Scholarship
- Pomona College to hold 111th Commencement
- March
- Pomona Students, Professor Publish Laser Tweezers Research in Professional Journal
- Pomona College Joins Other Claremont Colleges in Canceling Classes for One Day in Response to Hate Crime
- Pomona College Joins Other Claremont Colleges in Day of Solidarity
- Two Pomona Seniors Awarded Prestigious Watson Fellowships
- In Wake of Police Report Calling Hate Crime at CMC a Hoax, Colleges Reaffirm Commitment to Improving Our Community
- 50 Lynwood Eighth Graders to Visit Pomona College Mentors on Campus
- Posters on Racism, Sexism and Human Rights on Exhibition at Pomona College
- Accomplished Foreign Service Officer Named Inspirational Young Alumnus at Pomona College
- Actor Richard Chamberlain to Lecture at Pomona College
- February
- Pomona Professor Wins Grant for His Documentary "Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria"
- World Premiere of Student Film "Erasure" at Pomona College
- Pomona College Summer Scholars Program Now Accepting Applications
- Outstanding Faculty Mentors at Pomona College Recognized With Fellowships
- New Study Offers Insights on Why We Can't Remember "What's-Her-Name"
- January
- R. Carlton Seaver Named to Pomona College Board of Trustees
- Pomona Welcomes Six New Faculty Members
- Pomona College Professor Uncovers Bizarre Lifestyle of Trilobites
- "Project Series 21: Sandeep Mukherjee" Opens at Pomona College Museum of Art
- "Blue Sky: Visionaries, Romantics, Dreamers" Opens at Pomona College Museum of Art
- Pomona College Ranked #13 in Kiplinger's "Best Private College Values"
- Pacific Basin Institute's Frank Gibney Talks About the 50th Anniversary Reprinting of His Classic Book
- Ethics Expert Available on Abortion Debate as 31st Anniversary of Roe v. Wade Approaches
- Expert Available on Democratic Primary, Political Campaigns and Elections
- Memorial Service for Professor William Whedbee to Be Held at Pomona College on Feb. 14
- Sharp Inequities Among Public Schools Throughout the Los Angeles Region Found by Education Research Group
2003
- December
- November
- October
- Pomona College to Inaugurate David W. Oxtoby as its Ninth President on October 11, 2003
- New President David W. Oxtoby's Inaugural Address Center of a Weekend of Celebration
- Alumni Athletes Inducted Into Pomona-Pitzer Athletic Hall of Fame
- Beverly Wilson Palmer Receives NEH Grant for Edition of Florence Kelley Letters
- September
- August
- Record-Breaking Swimmer Penny Lee Dean Ends 22-Year Retirement for Benefit Swim
- Fresh Look at Intellectual Property Puts Borrowing, Sampling and Plagiarism in Historical Context
- Pomona College Selected as One of The Nation's 328 Most Interesting Colleges
- Backpacking and Surfing Among the Adventures Offered to Pomona College Freshmen as Way to Meet Peers Before Classes
- Focus on Tribal People Takes Local Professor to Laos and Pakistan and, in an Unexpected Twist, to Southern California
- Pomona College Students Second Happiest in National Survey of 351 Colleges
- Mars at its Brightest, Pomona College Offers Community Viewing Through Observatory Telescopes
- New Study on Effects of 9/11 Attacks Charts Impacts and Effective Coping Mechanisms
- Pomona College Ranked #4 in U.S. News & World Report
- Pomona College Breaks Ground for New Environmentally "Green" Biology Building
- 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
- Pomona Alumnus Bill Keller '70 Named to Lead "The New York Times" Through Troubled Times
- Pomona College Astronomers Take Part in Rare Viewing of Pluto
- Joshua Tree's Unique Landscape Explored in Book Coauthored by Pomona College Professor