Stories of Sagehen Impact

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).

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. 

Gabriel Dalton ’25 uses his Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP) project to challenge the conventional theory that smallpox epidemics wiped out the indigenous people that once lived on the land around Pomona College.

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.