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Pomona College is a private liberal arts college in Claremont, California. It was established in 1887 by a group of Congregationalists who wanted to recreate a "college of the New England type" in Southern California. In 1925, it became the founding member of the Claremont Colleges consortium of adjacent, affiliated institutions.
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Mary Sue Wilson Coleman is an American chemist and academic administrator who served as the president of the University of Iowa from 1995 to 2002, the 13th president of the University of Michigan from 2002 to 2014, and as the interim president of the University of Michigan in 2022.
Yolanda Theresa Moses is an anthropologist and college administrator who served as the 10th president of City College of New York (1993–1999) and president of the American Association for Higher Education (2000–2003).
Elijah Wilson Lyon was an American diplomatic historian who was the sixth president of Pomona College from 1941 to 1969. Born in Mississippi, he studied at the University of Mississippi and Colgate University, and was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University. During his tenure at Pomona, he guided the college through a transformational and turbulent period, and he is credited with helping shape it into a leading liberal arts institution. After his retirement, he wrote a history of the college, published in 1977.
Ami Elizabeth Radunskaya is an American mathematician and musician. She is a professor of mathematics at Pomona College, where she specializes in dynamical systems and the applications of mathematics to medicine, such as the use of cellular automata to model drug delivery. In 2016 she was elected as the president of the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM).
The Spirit of Spanish Music is a sculpture by Burt William Johnson . It was commissioned by the Pomona College class of 1915 and placed in the Lebus Court of the Mabel Shaw Bridges Hall of Music at Pomona College, one of a group of buildings conceived for the expansion of Pomona College and built in the mid-1910s by architect Myron Hunt using details of the "ornamental Spanish style".
Gina Gabrielle Starr is an American literary scholar, neuroscientist, and academic administrator who is the 10th president of Pomona College, a liberal arts college in Claremont, California. She is known for her work on 18th-century British literature and the neuroscience of aesthetics. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, an NSF ADVANCE award, and a New Directions Fellowship from the Mellon Foundation. From 2000 to 2017, she was on the faculty at New York University. In 2017, she became the first woman and first African-American president of Pomona College. Starr was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2020.
Stephen A. Erickson is an American philosopher. He is an emeritus professor of philosophy at Pomona College in Claremont, California, where he held the E. Wilson Lyon Professor of the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy title. He is known for his lectures in The Great Courses titled "Philosophy as a Guide to Living". He received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Yale University.
The Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College, known colloquially as the Benton, is an art museum at Pomona College in Claremont, California. It was completed in 2020, replacing the Montgomery Art Gallery which had been home to the Pomona College Museum of Art (PCMA) since 1958. It houses a collection of approximately 15,000 works, including Italian Renaissance panel paintings, indigenous American art and artifacts, and American and European prints, drawings, and photographs. The museum is free to the public.
Gary R. Kates is an American historian who specializes in the European Enlightenment and the French Revolution. He is the H. Russell Smith Foundation Professor of History at Pomona College in Claremont, California. He previously served as the dean of the college from 2001 to 2009.
Michael Karl Kuehlwein is an American economist. He is the George E. and Nancy O. Moss Professor of Economics at Pomona College in Claremont, California.
Valorie D. Thomas is an American Africana studies scholar, consultant, and screenwriter. She is the Phebe Estelle Spalding Professor of English and Africana Studies at Pomona College in Claremont, California.
Margaret "Peggy" Waller is an American scholar of 19th-century French literature. She is the Mary Ann Vanderzyl Reynolds Professor of Humanities and Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures at Pomona College in Claremont, California.
David Menefee-Libey is an American political scientist who has done research on the education policy of the United States. He is the William A. Johnson Professor of Government at Pomona College in Claremont, California.
Amaud Jamaul Johnson is an American poet. He is the Arthur M. and Fanny M. Dole Professor of English at Pomona College in Claremont, California.
Eric C. Lindholm is an American music conductor. He is the Harry S. and Madge Rice Thatcher Professor of Music at Pomona College in Claremont, California, and conducts the Pomona College Orchestra.
Fernando Lozano is an American labor economist. He is the Morris B. and Gladys S. Pendleton Professor of Economics at Pomona College in Claremont, California.
Erin M. Runions is an American religious studies scholar whose research focuses on the influence of the Bible on contemporary culture and politics. She is the Nancy J. Lyon Professor of Biblical History and Literature at Pomona College in Claremont, California.
David M. Tanenbaum is an American experimental physicist whose research involves surface science. He is the Osler-Loucks Professor in Science at Pomona College in Claremont, California.
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- ↑ Harry, Lorraine Wu (June 13, 2022). "Nine Faculty Members Appointed to Endowed Professorships". Pomona College. Retrieved June 25, 2022.
