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Katrina Dank '20 spent the summer in Uganda learning how prevalent cancer is among the population. Before returning home, she wrote and illustrated a children's book to help the country's youth understand the disease.

When Ernesto Gutiérrez Topete ’17 received his Ph.D. this past summer, he became the first Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship alumnus from the Claremont Colleges to achieve that goal. He will be teaching phonetics at Pomona.

Peter Heckendorn ’22 has been awarded a Coro Fellowship for Public Affairs for 2023-2024. He will learn about how policies are shaped through meetings with city leaders, rotational field placements across various industries and weekly seminars.

Since striking out major league All-Star Mike Trout in the World Baseball Classic, Ryan Long '21 has moved two steps up the minor league ladder—and he also contributed to the union bargaining process.

For 20 years, the Pomona College Academy for Youth Success has helped students in Greater Los Angeles get ready for college through an intensive, three-summer residential program on campus. Students have gone on to attend the nation’s top colleges.

Botros, one of 30 New American fellows chosen in 2023, will use the funding to support their work toward a Ph.D. in history.

Pomona College alumni Linda Alvarado ’73, Michelle Williams Court ’88 and Peter Shelton ’73 are the recipients of the 2023 Blaisdell Distinguished Alumni Award. Ann Rose Davie ’58 is the 2023 Alumni Distinguished Service Award recipient.

Former Sagehens player Melissa Barlow '87 has worked 10 women's NCAA Final Fours and three championship games as a referee.

Selected from nearly 3,000 applicants, Solomon Olshin ’23 and Qingjie (Bob) Zeng ’18 will join the 2023-24 cohort of Schwarzman Scholars at Tsinghua University in Beijing next August.

Jason Torres-Rangel ’03 was named the California Teacher of the Year in October and is the nominee for the 2023 National Teacher of the Year competition.