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Pomona Internship Leads Elena Shih ’04 to Career Focus on Human Trafficking

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James Solomon ’06 Wins Mayoral Election in New Jersey’s Second-Largest City

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Decoding Decisions: Kristine Cho ’21 Brings Behavioral Insights Back to Pomona

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Support for Pomona College Reaches Historic $82.8 Million Mark
Monday, August 25, 2025
More than 7,900 alumni, families and friends gave a record $82.8 million in gifts and pledges this past year—breaking all fundraising records in the institution’s 138-year history. 
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Pomona Students and Faculty Immerse Themselves in Mexico’s Economic History This Summer
Monday, August 25, 2025
Fernando Lozano, Morris B. And Gladys S. Pendleton Professor of Economics, and Karla Cordova, visiting assistant professor of economics, and 12 Pomona students traveled to Oaxaca and Mexico City for as part of Pomona’s third Global Gateways program.
Joseph Osborn and students
Cartography 101: Students Spend Summer Mapping Video Game Worlds
Thursday, August 21, 2025
For their Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP) project, three rising Pomona College seniors are determining whether it’s possible to not just map video games on the Nintendo Entertainment System, but any two-dimensional action game.
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‘The Energy is Unmatched’: Pomona College Welcomes Class of 2029 on Move-In Day
Tuesday, August 19, 2025
Hundreds of new students moved into their respective dorm rooms Saturday with the help of dozens of residential advisors and Pomona staff members. In total, 423 first-year students, as well as 30 transfer students, are joining Pomona this fall.
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Prof. Stephan Ramon Garcia on New Frontiers in Operators, Functions and Matrices
Thursday, August 14, 2025
Stephan Ramon Garcia, W.M. Keck Distinguished Service Professor and professor of mathematics, received a $285,236 grant from the National Science Foundation last month for a project that will fund many student researchers over the next several years.
Thomas Amory, Ross Pringle and Max Distaso kayaking near Redondo Beach, California
A Summer of Pelicans, Bullfrogs and Woodrats: Students Study Local Wildlife Diversity
Tuesday, August 5, 2025
Biology majors Thomas Amory ’27 and Max Distaso ’28 are spending their summer in search of radio-banded pelicans and studying American bullfrogs and two species of woodrat. They are among 241 students in the Summer Undergraduate Research Program.
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Pomona College Board of Trustees Elects Two New Members
Thursday, July 24, 2025
The Pomona College Board of Trustees has elected investment company founder Paul Ghaffari ’80 and journalist and healthcare advocate Evelyn Nussenbaum ’84 as new members of the 31-member board. Their four-year term began July 1. 
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Chloe Marple ’26 and Sage Santomenna ’26 Awarded Goldwater Scholarship
Tuesday, July 22, 2025
The two rising Pomona College seniors were among the 441 college students recognized by the Goldwater Foundation for their exceptional promise of becoming research leaders in the fields of natural sciences, engineering and mathematics.
Gabriel Dalton in Special Collections
Summer Research on Campus Probes Local Indigenous Population Demise
Friday, July 18, 2025
What led to the demise of indigenous people that once inhabited the land around Pomona College? Gabriel Dalton ’25 wants to challenge the conventional theory that smallpox epidemics in the late 1800s wiped them out.
Prof. Jessica Stern holding her book Beyond Difficult
Prof. Jessica Stern’s New Book Helps Readers Deal with Difficult People
Tuesday, July 15, 2025
Last month, Jessica Stern ’12 published Beyond difficult: An attachment-based guide to dealing with challenging people. Stern discusses why she wrote the book and how she hopes the content will help readers.  
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