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This summer, 139 Pomona College students conducted research through the Summer Undergraduate Research Program, more familiarly known as SURP.

In her new book, Just in Time, Pomona College President G. Gabrielle Starr explores how the experience of beauty results from neurological and psychological processes in which time is a key element. It was published in June by The MIT Press.

When and how the Rocky Mountains were created are questions that Professor of Geology Jade Star Lackey offers paradigm-shifting answers to in a new paper.

Santiago Serrano ’25, a neuroscience major, and Alexandra Turvey ’24, a biology major, have been selected as Beckman Scholars to conduct in-depth, mentored research over the next 15 months.

On June 3, Kyla Wazana Tompkins, professor of English and gender and women’s studies, won a James Beard award for her essay “On Boba,” published in the The Larb Quarterly of the Los Angeles Review of Books.

Students in Prof. Heidi Haddad’s politics class this spring researched abortion measures, introduced or enacted post-Dobbs, across all 50 states. They presented their findings to staff from the office of California Gov. Newsom in Sacramento in May.

Three Pomona College students did research this summer in the Center for Computational Astrophysics at the Flatiron Institute in New York City, thanks to the efforts of Jorge Moreno, assistant professor of physics and astronomy. 

Rosalia Romero, assistant professor of art history, is an organizer for a pair of exhibitions showing through May 28 at The Cheech in Riverside, Calif., and Samuel White ’23 and Daniel Velazquez ’25 have served as her research assistants.

This year’s Wig Award recipients are Konrad Aguilar, 

Oona Eisenstadt, 

Jo Hardin, Sara Masland, David Menefee-Libey, Prageeta Sharma and Arely Zimmerman.

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.