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A Shale's Tale: Professor Jade Star Lackey’s Lab Provides Important Research Analysis

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9 Great Things Happening at Pomona This Summer

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After Graduation, Darartu Doto ’18 Heads to Ethiopia to Launch Menstruation Education Project

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Prof. Samuel Yamashita Discusses How Ramen – and other Japanese Dishes – Went Global and Glamorous

Monday, March 19, 2018

In this Q&A, Professor of History Samuel Yamashita tells the story behind the globalization of Japanese cuisine, its path into fine dining and explores the future of Asian fusion as a transnational culinary sensation.

Uncertainty and Sorrow: The Unexplored Japanese Response to the Pearl Harbor Attack

Monday, December 4, 2017

Poring over city records and personal diaries, Prof. Yamashita chronicles how ordinary Japanese responded to news of the Pearl Harbor attack, not only through mass gatherings but also in individual reflections.

Inspiration Drawn from Deserts, Medieval Monks and Data Mining Spark New Critical Inquiry Courses

Wednesday, September 6, 2017

Call it Sagehen submersion. Twice a week, first-year students participate in one of 30 Critical Inquiry (ID1) sections – intensive classes that introduce the new students to both the joy and rigor of academia at Pomona.

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Senior Theses Chronicle Pomona Students’ Intellectual Journeys

Wednesday, May 3, 2017

As Pomona College seniors prepare to slip into their graduation gowns and turn to an exciting new chapter of their lives, there is a big item on their to-do list that awaits a checkmark: senior thesis.

Sana Khan ’17 and Jiwon Yi ’17 Awarded Downing Scholarships

Wednesday, April 5, 2017

Sana Khan ’17 and Jiwon Yi ’17 received prestigious Downing Scholarships to study at the University of Cambridge for 2017-18.

Prof. Tomás Summers Sandoval Will Bring the Stories of Latino Vietnam Veterans to the Stage

Tuesday, February 28, 2017

Professor of History and Chicana/o Latina/o Studies Tomás Summers Sandoval will bring the stories of Latino veterans of the Vietnam War to the theatre stage thanks to a new fellowship.

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Mexican Economic Discontent and the New U.S. Presidential Administration

Tuesday, January 24, 2017

Professor Miguel Tinker Salas Comments on Mexican Economic Discontent and Possible Repercussions for the United States and its New Presidential Administration

The Claremont Colleges Library Receives National Grant to Digitize California Water Resources

Thursday, January 5, 2017

The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) awarded the Claremont Colleges Library a $333,574 grant to digitize and help preserve primary source documentation of water history in California.

How a Professor and a Pope Sparked a Passion for Research

Thursday, April 14, 2016

Kai Dowding '16 didn't plan on becoming a history major, but then a professor and a pope sparked a passion for research.

A Fresh Look at the Lives of Japanese During World War II

Wednesday, February 10, 2016

Pomona College History Professor Samuel Yamashita’s new book Daily Life in Wartime Japan, 1940-1945 offers readers revealing details of lives unknown to most Americans until now.

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