Admitted Students: Welcome New Sagehens!

Recorded in the studios of KSPC, Pomona’s FM radio station, Sagecast offers our extended community a chance to listen in on vibrant intellectual conversations with Pomona College faculty and students. Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts or Google Podcasts. We’ve curated a few for you to try.

• The Psychology and Biology of Stress Response with Professor of Psychology & Neuroscience Nicole Weekes
• Language and Identity with Professor of Linguistics & Cognitive Science Nicole Holliday
• From the Marines and Army to Pomona with Jordan Petersen ’19 and Travis Werling ’21
• Summer Undergraduate Research Projects with Ian Poveda '21 and Pauline Bekkers '21
• Mentorship Stories: Professor of Theatre & Dance Giovanni Ortega and Anais Gonzalez Nyberg '20
• Mentorship Stories: Professor of Chicana/o Latina/o Studies Gilda Ochoa and Rene Valenzuela '20

Pomona’s YouTube channel offers visual insights into campus, residence halls, days in our students’ lives, Ski Beach Day and more.

• Tours: what’s it like to live at Pomona? Pro tip: new students live on South Campus.
  • Virtual Campus Tour
  • Tour The Claremont Colleges
  • Lyon Residence Hall (South Campus): DIY on steroids
  • Harwood Residence Hall (oldest hall on South Campus): a friendship suite
  • Mudd Hall (South Campus): the perks of air conditioning
  • Clark I Residence Hall (North Campus): 4-year residents reminisce
  • Lawry Court Residence Hall (North Campus): turning your room into a shrine to your home state

• Sagehen Life: what’s life really like at Pomona?
  • Sagehen Life: Elena Vedovello '23, a student from Italy, visits many dining halls, introduces you to some hoodie entrepreneurs, works as a videographer, goes to classes at several of the 5Cs (Claremont Colleges), attends an environmental conference, and goes to a lacrosse class.
  • Sagehen Life: Bria VarnBuhler '20, a chemistry major and National Soccer Player of the Year, takes you along to soccer practice, a session at the Hive (the 5C Center for Collaborative Creativity), and to the chem lab.
  • International Students at Pomona: Sagehens from China, Japan, Nepal, Pakistan and Thailand share their experiences.
  • The Power Is in the Relationships: the impact of friends and mentors
  • Move-In Day 2019: sneak preview of what happens in August!
• Adventures Off Campus: when you’ve got to get out.
  • Orientation Adventure 2019: new students, meet Southern California.
  • Ski-Beach Day 2020: where else can you ski in the morning and body surf in the afternoon?​
  • The Adventure Is in the Opportunities: research, internships, study abroad—​figuring out what's important to you
  • The Promise Is in the Place: California, Los Angeles—​a location to love for (at least) four years
• Post-Pomona: bearing their riches for mankind
  • Sagehens at Work: meet an ER doctor, an MLB analyst, an art conservator, a TV reporter, an entrepreneur and an engineering PhD student. 
  • Outcomes for the Class of 2019

Voices is a Pomona College student blog that opens a window into student life at Pomona College.

• Why Did I Choose Pomona? by Myles Ashitey ’22
• Ten Things to Look Forward to Your First Year at Pomona, by Jack Buyske ’18
• Learning to Love Los Angeles, by Elias van Emmerick ’21
• How to Start a Club (It’s Really As Easy As the Tour Guides Make It Sound), by Danny DeBare ’22 
• From Cornfields to Palm Trees, by Max Ober ’22
• A Letter for Incoming Black Students, from a Black Student, by Ebere Amadi ’22
• Good Weather Is a Good Basis for Making Your College Decision, by Sarah Binau ’19
• Tips About Financial Aid, by Kensi Martinez ’21
• Need Aware Does Not Mean No Aid, by Ebenezer Mensah '23
• On Being Part of an Underrepresented Group at Pomona, by Daniel Garcia ’21
• How Pomona Shot to the Top of My List, by Libby Rose ’19

• Professor of Economics Fernando Lozano named co-chair of California’s Council of Economic Advisors 
• Assistant Professor of Linguistics Nicole Holliday on Amy Klobuchar’s speech on NPR
• Assistant Professor of Politics Amanda Hollis-Brusky’s work made it into an amicus brief for an upcoming Supreme Court case [pdf]
• Assistant Professor of Politics Tom Le and Daphne Yang ’20 write about Japan-Korea relations in Tokyo Review
• Assistant Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies Aimee Bahng has been awarded a $285,000 grant as part of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s highly competitive New Directions Fellowship program
• Professor of Creative Writing & English Jonathan Lethem’s novel Motherless Brooklyn comes to the big screen under Edward Norton’s direction
• Professor of Physical Education Frank Pericolosi’s Baseball Analytics class builds on the success of Pomona grads who have gone on to work in major-league sports

• Alumni Answer the Call and Respond to the Coronavirus Crisis
• Career Stories: read about alumni in varied career fields
• Kanye West’s Fascination with James Turrell ’65 Explained in Rolling Stone
• Jennifer Doudna ’85, one of the world’s most sought-after scientists 
• Erika James ’91, first woman and first person of color to be appointed dean of Wharton’s Business School
• Art philanthropists Kiki Ramos Gindler ’83 and David Gindler ’81 featured by the Smithsonian National Museum of American History
• NASA Scientist Laura Kerber ’06 on terraforming Mars
• Laszlo Bock ’93, former Senior VP of People Operations at Google, talks machine learning with the Wall Street Journal

• Linguistics major Franco Liu ’20 awarded Downing Scholarship to pursue his master’s degree at the University of Cambridge
• Chemistry major Yanni Kashtan ’20 is Pomona’s first recipient of the prestigious Knight-Hennessy scholarship at Stanford University
• International relations major Daphnide Nicole ’20 incorporates art activism into her Pomona experience
• Chemistry major Brendan Terry ’20, winner of a Gates Cambridge scholarship, will focus on disease and disparities in pursuing a Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge
• A double major in math and physics, Elise Koskelo ’20 is awarded a Churchill Scholarship to pursue research and study at the University of Cambridge
• History major Paul Kiefer ’20 researches Islam in the American South
• Chemistry major Bria VarnBuhler ’20 is National Soccer Player of the Year