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On Saturday, October 6, 1923, the Sagehens of Pomona College played USC in the first varsity college football game ever played on the field of the then-new Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. The stadium is celebrating its centennial in 2023.

Katrina Dank '20 spent the summer in Uganda learning how prevalent cancer is among the population. Before returning home, she wrote and illustrated a children's book to help the country's youth understand the disease.

Masago Armstrong helped thousands of students stay on track during her 30 years as registrar of Pomona College. Now, leaving a $1 million gift for scholarships at her passing, Armstrong will continue to shape students’ lives for years to come.

This summer, Lilly Bar ’23, Benjamin Cheng ’24 and Arivumani Srivastava ’26 made vast language gains as participants in the U.S. Department of State’s Critical Language Scholarship program.

Pomona College is making progress toward its sustainability goals and commitment to be carbon neutral by 2030. Results are documented in the recently published 2023 SAVE (Sustainable Action Visible Effects) annual report.  

Stephen A. Erickson, emeritus professor of philosophy, passed away on September 20 at the age of 83.

The Critical Inquiry seminar, or ID1, as it’s more commonly known, serves as both a rite of passage for first-year students and an introduction to academic life at Pomona.

Amanda Eric ’25 is driven to help global communities facing climate change challenges and has landed a scholarship to aid in this mission. Announced in late August, Eric was awarded the 2023 Obama-Chesky Scholarship for Public Service.

When Ernesto Gutiérrez Topete ’17 received his Ph.D. this past summer, he became the first Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship alumnus from the Claremont Colleges to achieve that goal. He will be teaching phonetics at Pomona.

Where do the paths of the campus nurse, the chair of the Politics Department, and an assistant vice president cross? This past summer, it was on the women’s softball field, as faculty and staff participated in the Summer Softball League.