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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.

Pomona College’s Department of Music is thrilled to share a series of free campus concerts with the local community.

Pomona College has been named a top school for financial aid by The Princeton Review, ranking fourth on the list of “Top 20 Best Schools for Financial Aid (Private Schools).”

Konrad Aguilar, assistant professor of mathematics and statistics at Pomona College, has received a two-year National Science Foundation grant of $189,661 to study how information is passed on at the quantum level.

A research team led by Prof. Charlotte Chang of Pomona College found that in the six months following Musk’s acquisition of Twitter, nearly half of Twitter users identified as environmentally oriented had ceased being active on the platform.