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Eight Books by Pomona Authors to Read this Winter

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Pomona College Professor Co-Leads Study on Global Benefits and Trade-Offs of Natural Climate Solutions

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Pomona College Closes Out a Historic Year of Fundraising

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The Unclaimed: A Story of Abandonment and Hope
Friday, November 8, 2024
Pamela Prickett, associate professor of sociology, shares insights from a recent book she coauthored telling the stories of people who were abandoned after death in Los Angeles County and the heartwarming ways strangers stepped in to provide dignity.
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Prof. Yanshuo Zhang Wins National Grant to Promote Ethnic Diversity in China Studies
Thursday, October 24, 2024
Yanshuo Zhang, assistant professor of Asian languages and literatures, won a $150,000 grant from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) for her project to bolster the field of China studies at North American colleges and universities.
Prof. Chuck Taylor and Tymmaa Asaed ’25
Student Researchers Participate in a Chemistry and Neuroscience Faculty Collaboration
Friday, October 18, 2024
Tymmaa Asaed ’25 works closely with both Elizabeth Glater, professor of neuroscience, and Chuck Taylor, professor of chemistry, who have been teaming up for about a decade.
Nikki Moore sits on a pile of large rocks in the Sierra Nevada
Prof. Nikki Moore Uses NSF Grant to Explore Independence Dikes in the Sierra Nevada
Friday, August 16, 2024
This summer, Prof. Nikki Moore took three trips to the Sierra Nevada, each accompanied by different Claremont Colleges students. The two hiked to dikes Moore targeted and mapped, collecting dike rock samples for lab analysis.
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What Can Recent Irish Local Elections Tell Us About Immigration as a Political Issue?
Wednesday, August 7, 2024
Erica Dobbs, assistant professor of politics, studies political representation and social protection. Recently she collaborated with a team of Pomona College students to study this summer’s local elections in Ireland and their ramifications. 
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Summer Research: Math, Music, the Adolescent Brain and More
Wednesday, July 31, 2024
This year, 195 Pomona College students have received a total of just over $1 million in grant funding through the Summer Undergraduate Research Program. It provides an opportunity to get hands-on, practical experience while still in college. 
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Prof. Omer Shah Receives National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend for Book Project
Monday, July 29, 2024
Prof. Omer Shah is spending his summer writing two chapters of his monograph on Mecca, Saudi Arabia. The Pomona cultural anthropologist has long been fascinated with exploring religious migration and movements such as the Hajj pilgrimage.
Daniel Gao '25
Daniel Gao ’25 Named 2024 Goldwater Scholar
Thursday, June 6, 2024
Daniel Gao ’25, a molecular biology major, has been awarded the prestigious Goldwater Scholarship, given to sophomores and juniors who show exceptional promise of becoming research leaders in science, engineering and mathematics.
Jorge Moreno and Francisco Mercado in the campus planetarium
Astronomy Post-Doc and Professor Publish Paper on Dark Matter and Galaxies
Monday, April 22, 2024
Francisco Mercado, a post-doctoral research fellow at Pomona College, and Jorge Moreno, associate professor of physics and astronomy, published a paper on April 16 in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 
Prof. David Divita holds his new book in his office
Prof. David Divita Documents Untold Stories of Spain’s Dictatorship in New Book
Friday, April 12, 2024
Published in March by University of Toronto Press, Untold Stories presents an ethnography of impoverished Spaniards who fled General Francisco Franco’s dictatorship in the 1960s as part of a wave of labor migration to northern Europe.
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