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In 2018, Pomona College alumna Mackenzie Grieman ’09 spent weeks living in a tent in Antarctica for postdoctoral research. Six years later, she’s an associate editor at Springer Nature Group, the global publisher of scientific research.

Pomona strives to be a place where transfer students can seamlessly continue their academic journeys. Assorted transfer-specific programs help ease the transition by getting these students familiar with their new surroundings.

A deep-rooted curiosity in planets beyond our solar system led Kendra Nguyen ’24 to Pomona College, where they are a budding astrophysicist.

With 16 Fulbright U.S. students this academic year, Pomona College placed among the top three baccalaureate institutions nationwide.

Mikey Dickerson '01 helped rescue the HealthCare.gov website, a key part of the Affordable Care Act, in 2013. Now he is helping pilot a new program, "Return to Pomona," and teaching computer science spring semester at his alma mater.

Emeritus Professor of Japanese Stanleigh Jones has died at 92.

Thomas Aguilar '27 and Ricardo Camacho '27 became friends when they were both in the Pomona College Academy for Youth Success (PAYS) program. Now they are first-year students and roommates at Pomona College.

Sagehens forward Ka Kiu (Kyle) Lau ’25 donned his home city’s uniform last fall at the Olympics-styled multi-sport extravaganza, playing in front of thousands of fans during Hong Kong’s historic run to a fourth-place finish in soccer.

Masha Prokopenko, visiting assistant professor of geology, is part of a team that has received an NSF grant to explore how apparent “deserts” in the North Pacific Ocean defy the odds and obtain the nutrients they need to sustain the ecosystem.

Pomona College’s commencement ceremony, taking place May 12, 2024, will feature four distinguished speakers: Tani Cantil-Sakauye, Cecilia Conrad, Harry Elam and Emil Kakkis ’82.