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As a Napier Award for Creative Leadership recipient and a Projects for Peace awardee, Elisa Velasco ’23 will design and implement a summer program called Sin Límites (Without Limits) for Latinx high school freshmen and sophomores in Oklahoma.

The NSF fellowship will provide Pomona students and alumni with an annual $37,000 stipend and $12,000 cost of education allowance for three years over a five-year fellowship period.

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.

Zoë Batterman ’24 and Alexandra Turvey ’24 have been named Goldwater Scholars, one of the most prestigious awards for undergraduates in the fields of the natural sciences, engineering and mathematics.

Professors Joanne Nucho and Julie Tannenbaum will each receive a $6,000 stipend to support their respective humanities projects.

A $1.6 million award from the National Science Foundation and the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation will allow Wallace Meyer and his collaborators to identify solutions to keep species of Hawaiian land snails alive.

Chemistry Professor Daniel J. O'Leary is using colorful models representing the shape and form of molecular orbitals to help students visualize and learn principles of organic chemistry. They are made with a hobby-grade 3-D printer.

Rya Jetha '23 and Mohammed Ahmed '23 will pursue master's degrees in Cambridge University's Downing College during the next academic year as recipients of the Downing Scholarship. Each year up to two Pomona students are selected for the award.

The Forum on Education Abroad announced that Kiya Henderson '23  is the winner of its Award for Academic Achievement Abroad for her research paper, “A Retrospective Analysis of Maternal Mortality in Kisumu, Kenya from March 2021 to March 2022.

In this Q&A, Prof. Heidi Haddad explores the charges issued by the International Criminal Court against President Putin and Maria Lvova-Belova, and what they signal ahead for the Russian war against Ukraine.