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Language learning has continued to flourish at the Oldenborg Center despite the disruption brought on by the pandemic. The center’s co-directors, Carolina De la Rosa Bustamante and Prof. Paul Cahill tell us more.

Professor of Psychological Science Patricia Smiley has received a research grant from the National Science Foundation to study the changes in stress response in adults and children brought on by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

As the line goes, “everything old is new again,” and on a Pomona College stage, a 400-year-old Shakespearean play is no exception. 

Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Martina Vandenberg ’90 will deliver commencement addresses to Pomona College’s Class of 2020 at 10 a.m. on Sunday, May 17, on the College’s Marston Quadrangle. 

From winter break we transition into a new spring semester at Pomona College in just a few days. This semester, the College breaks in the new decade with a host of big events on campus from late January to early May. 

“Red Velvet,” as presented on Pomona’s Seaver Theatre stage, will differ from “Red Velvet” as written. The work about the great classical black actor Ira Aldridge is reimagined as a tale of triumph rather than tragedy. 

Robert Goldberg, chief operating officer of Barnard College and a former senior budget official for the U.S. State Department, will become vice president, chief operating officer (COO) and treasurer of Pomona College.

For the first time, five Pomona College students are bringing their self-produced plays to the Hollywood Fringe Festival,  an annual three-week celebration of theatre with more than 400 shows.

“Crumbs from the Table of Joy” has themes that deeply resonate with the issues of our day, according to Saundra McClain who is directing students in this final play of the Pomona College Theatre Department’s 2018-2019 season.

Opening in fall 2020, Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College (The Benton) will provide a space for some of Southern California’s most compelling and experimental exhibitions.