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Associate Professor of History Angelina Chin researches the global history of assistive technologies, starting with East Asia, and is developing a website to teach the public about different types of assistive technologies.

The National Science Foundation awarded a $114,000 grant to geology department chair Jade Star Lackey. He and fellow researchers will measure halogen concentrations in igneous rocks that formed California’s Sierra Nevadas.

From sciences to the arts, Pomona faculty and staff members secured numerous grant awards during the 2021–22 academic year.

The Institute for Inclusive Excellence will serve as the hub for existing Pomona programs that foster inclusive environments, develop new programming, and provide program assessment and outcomes reporting.

College students in Southern California can take part in collaborative multi-institutional ecological research with fellow students and professors thanks to the leadership of Pomona College biologists Nina Karnovsky and Wallace "Marty" Meyer.

Five Pomona College students in the Summer Undergraduate Research Program have an opportunity to engage with faculty in research projects having potential to help improve medical treatments and contribute to human well-being. 

Robert Gaines, geology professor and dean of Pomona College, will work with a team in Australia's Outback this summer to study Earth's oldest animals and the environment in which they lived.

Environmental advocacy organizations now have new tools to help them motivate their constituencies, thanks to groundbreaking research on Twitter use in 14 countries that identified six distinct personas.

Research found that wildfire did not have a significant impact on soil bacteria communities in sites sampled in the Santa Monica Mountain National Recreation Area before and after the 2018 Woolsey Fire.