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Margaret (“Peggy”) Dornish, emerita professor of religious studies, died in San Marcos, California, on December 27 at the age of 89. 

Hudson Colletti '27 was classically trained at a young age and fell hard for the piano. The Pomona first-year student has since given others in his home state of Pennsylvania a chance to fall in love with the ivories too.

Zoë Batterman ’24, a mathematics major, has been awarded the prestigious Churchill Scholarship. 

Pomona College's Music Department announces the lineup for its spring 2024 season.

As 2023 comes to a close, we look back at some of the key moments and memories made possible by our Pomona College students, faculty and staff.

Several runners on Pomona-Pitzer's men's cross country team raced independently as first-year Sagehens at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic. As seniors this fall, they captured the program's third NCAA title in four years.

When Ruben Murray ’19, wrote his senior thesis on the small East African country of Djibouti, the international relations major didn’t expect to end up there two years later as a foreign service officer for the U.S. State Department.

Diana Castellanos '24 created the Plant Babysitters Club last year for Pomona students who needed someone to care for their plants during winter break. In its second year, nearly 40 faculty and staff have signed up to help.

Pomona College students studying in Paris and Edinburgh are among 96 Sagehens studying away from their home campus fall semester through the College's International and Domestic Programs Office. There is a resurgence of interest in off-campus study.

Two months after receiving her diploma, Julia Frankel ’23 started reporting on issues in the Middle East from Jerusalem for the Associated Press. Now covering the Israel-Hamas war, her stories shed light on the trauma felt throughout the region.