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Konrad Aguilar, assistant professor of mathematics and statistics at Pomona College, has received a two-year National Science Foundation grant of $189,661 to study how information is passed on at the quantum level.

A research team led by Prof. Charlotte Chang of Pomona College found that in the six months following Musk’s acquisition of Twitter, nearly half of Twitter users identified as environmentally oriented had ceased being active on the platform.

In her new book, Erica Dobbs, assistant professor of politics, and her coauthors explore how people around the world meet their needs for health care, education and other aspects of the social safety net, often by crossing borders.

This summer, 139 Pomona College students conducted research through the Summer Undergraduate Research Program, more familiarly known as SURP.

When and how the Rocky Mountains were created are questions that Professor of Geology Jade Star Lackey offers paradigm-shifting answers to in a new paper.

Professors Fernando Lozano and Emiliano Huet-Vaughn will research on two issues key to Southern California's economy: minimum wage increases and entrepreneurship.

Three Pomona College students did research this summer in the Center for Computational Astrophysics at the Flatiron Institute in New York City, thanks to the efforts of Jorge Moreno, assistant professor of physics and astronomy. 

Professor Ousmane Traoré spent a year in Senegal conducting research as part of his New Directions Fellowship.

Rosalia Romero, assistant professor of art history, is an organizer for a pair of exhibitions showing through May 28 at The Cheech in Riverside, Calif., and Samuel White ’23 and Daniel Velazquez ’25 have served as her research assistants.

In her second book, Angelina Y. Chin, chair and associate professor of history at Pomona College, explores the history of people who lived in limbo outside the borders of mainland China in Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan during the Cold War.