Stories of Sagehen Impact

Remembering Chris Ponce, who led Pomona's advancement team from 2003 to 2012 and helped launch the College's "Daring Minds" campaign.

Nearly 27 percent of the Class of 2025 gave back to Pomona through their Senior Class Impact Project and Athletics Giving Day, besting the overall alumni giving participation rate of 18.8 percent for the 2025 fiscal year.

Pomona College welcomes 15 new faculty to tenure-track and tenured positions this fall. Six taught at the College previously, including an alumna. The other nine are newcomers.

Pomona College’s broad and rigorous liberal arts curriculum has helped Ashley Simons Hathaway ’18 succeed professionally. But, she says, it was a vector calculus class that unexpectedly changed her life.

Pomona students found themselves in research labs, nonprofit offices, creative studios and other career environments this summer discovering what sparks their passion through internships.

Zena Almeida-Warwin ’28, Dannhi Nguyen ’27 and Jonna Sobeloff-Gittes ’25 participated in the highly competitive eight-week CLS program, which provides American students the opportunity to learn languages of strategic importance to the United Sta

A trailblazer for aspiring women physicians in the 1940s and throughout her career, Marjorie “Marj” E. Belknap ’47, who lived to 98, will help advance the career aspirations of future Sagehens with a generous legacy gift for student scholarships.

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. 

Emma Gandonou ’26, Steven Kim ’26 and Leo Torres ’26 hone their coding chops in Prof. Joseph Osborn's lab this summer for their Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP) project.

Biology majors Thomas Amory ’27 and Max Distaso ’28 work with Prof. Nina Karnovsky in the Pomona College Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP).