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Pomona College is one of a handful of schools in the nation committed to meeting the full demonstrated need of all students who are eligible for need-based financial aid. While loans are available, Pomona does not use them to meet a student’s financial need. “Pomona College is fortunate to have the financial support of many wonderful donors.
More than a year after Pomona—like so many colleges across the country—was forced to evacuate and close its campus in the face of the growing pandemic, there is finally a light at the end of the tunnel. After a devastating fall and winter surge, COVID-19 case counts dropped dramatically in Los Angeles County through late February and early ...
Dec 3, 2020 · Jennifer Doudna ’85 wins the 2020 Nobel Prize in chemistry. December 3, 2020 by Mark Wood. Jennifer Doudna at work in her lab at UC Berkeley. —Photo by Robert Durell. As word spread around the globe in the early hours of Oct. 7, 2020, that biochemist Jennifer Doudna ’85 had just been awarded a Nobel Prize in chemistry, the honoree herself ...
May 8, 2024 · With Pomona College’s graduation just days away, the pro-Palestinian encampment at Marston Quadrangle shows no signs of going anywhere, and is in fact growing. Pomona Divest from Apartheid demonstrators added more tents and erected a second layer of fencing on Tuesday ahead of the May 12 ceremony, which is scheduled to take place on the site of the encampment. Courier photo/Andrew Alonzo
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The College and the Pandemic
The year 2020 will be remembered at Pomona, as everywhere else in the world, as the year of COVID-19. In early spring, Pomona was confronted with a rapidly escalating pandemic that led with startling speed from monitoring the situation in February to a few cautious policy changes announced on March 5—involving mostly travel restrictions—to the cancelation of all public events on March 9, followed just two days later by the decision to evacuate all students from campus. Students were asked to...
Dean of the College
Professor of Geology Robert Gaines was named in January to serve as vice president for academic affairs and dean of the college for a term extending through June 2022. He had been serving as dean on an interim basis since July 2019. He retained his faculty title as the Edwin F. and Martha Hahn Professor. Gaines, a two-time Wig Award winner, was known for his groundbreaking international research.
Strategic Planning
Despite of the pandemic, a final version of the newly developed “Strategic Vision for Pomona College” was announced at the end of May, featuring intertwined themes of transformative knowledge and creativity, equity and access and flourishing and inclusion. In the months that followed, teams for each area began laying the groundwork for putting that vision into action during the years to come.
Campus Climate
The College contracted with Rankin and Associates to conduct a campus climate assessment to take a deeper look at the living, learning and working environment on campus for all members of our community. The goals of the project was to: 1) identify successful initiatives, 2) uncover any challenges facing members of our community and 3) develop strategic initiatives to build on the successes and address the challenges.
Nobel Laureate
In October, Jennifer Doudna ’85 was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for her groundbreaking work in discovering and developing the gene-editing tool known as CRISPR-Cas9, becoming the first Pomona graduate to become a Nobel Laureate.
A newly discovered coronavirus causing a new disease named COVID-19 engulfed the world in the greatest and most prolonged pandemic in a century, killing millions, sparking worldwide lockdowns and c...The first impeachment trial of President Donald Trump in January concluded with an acquittal vote along party lines.In October, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft briefly touched down on Bennu, becoming the agency's first probe to retrieve samples from an asteroid, with its cargo due for return to Earth in 2023.Oct 3, 2024 · Pomona College Magazine Winter 2004: Acts of Will. Monday, September 30, 2024. Pomona College alumnus Kris Kristofferson ’58 died on September 28, 2024, at 88. This story by Michael Balchunas, titled “Acts of Will,” was published in the Winter 2004 issue of Pomona College Magazine.
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The class of 2020 heard from two speakers: Noted literary scholar and Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Henry Louis Gates Jr. and renowned human rights lawyer and Pomona College alumna Martina Vandenberg ’90. Gates and Vandenberg received an honorary degree by Pomona College during the College’s 127 th commencement exercises.
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