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“Black Ecologies in Contemporary American Art,” which opened last month and shows through June at the Benton Museum of Art, is the unique product of interdisciplinary collaboration at Pomona.

Pomona College is offering admission today to a new generation of eager, thoughtful and reverent Sagehen students. The admitted Class of 2029 is expected to be one of the most academically accomplished to date.

Pomona College and the American Council of Learned Societies are jointly facilitating the Graves Awards to enhance teaching in humanities-related disciplines by early-career professors. 

The athletic calendar ramps up as the school year winds down, with new seasons for baseball and softball, men’s and women’s golf, women’s lacrosse, men’s and women’s tennis, men’s and women’s track and field, and women’s water polo.

Pomona College helps transfer students navigate the complexities of being a nontraditional student and pursue their academic and career goals. 

Dr. W. Benton Boone ’62, Louise Bryson, Justice Halim Dhanidina ’94 and David W. Oxtoby will address graduates at Pomona College’s 2025 Commencement ceremony to be held Sunday, May 18, at 10 a.m. on Marston Quad on the Pomona College campus. 

Biology major Isabel Ramos ’25 will spend the year after her Pomona College graduation in Asia as a Luce Scholar, expanding her knowledge of ecology, conservation and sustainable agriculture while immersed in a new culture.  

With 16 Fulbright U.S. students this academic year, Pomona tied at No. 2 with Amherst and Barnard Colleges among baccalaureate institutions nationwide.

Erica Dobbs, assistant professor of politics at Pomona College, has received a grant of $48,036 from the Russell Sage Foundation to study the effectiveness of efforts to unionize workers in the South using the Justice for Janitors model. 

Gary Smith, Fletcher Jones Professor of Economics at Pomona College, hears the hype about AI and sees in the overheated stock prices a bubble in the making. He shares thoughts on how to recognize a bubble and not succumb to the Fear of Missing Out.