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Nov 26, 2024 | 
academic.oup.com | Pomona College |Space Research
Recent observations with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have uncovered unexpectedly high cosmic star formation activity in the early Universe, mere hundreds of millions of years after the Big Bang. These observations are often understood to reflect an evolutionary shift in star formation efficiency (SFE) caused by changing galactic conditions during these early epochs.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
tsl.news | Ansley Washburn |Pomona College |Pro-Palestinian activism
On Thursday, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) – the United States’ largest Muslim advocacy group – designated Pomona College as an “institution of particular concern,” citing its “hostile environment” and the “threat to the safety of Palestinian, Muslim, Arab, Jewish, and other students, staff, and faculty who stand against occupation, apartheid, and genocide.” The report also identified the University of Michigan and the University of Georgia in this category, claiming that...
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Sep 20, 2024 | 
tsl.news | Yuhang Xie |Trinity Tai |Pomona College
On Sept. 12, Pomona College’s Asian Studies Department hosted a lecture titled “Animals, Race, and the ‘Gospel of Kindness’: The American Whaling Fleet of the Pacific World.” The lecture, the first in a series led by the department’s alumni, shed light on how race relations aboard mixed-race whaling ships impacted sailors’ treatment of whales during the 19th century. Lissa Wadewitz PO ’95, a history professor at the University of Oregon, led the talk.
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Jun 17, 2024 | 
academic.oup.com | Pomona College
Our ability to accurately compare predictions from galaxy formation simulations to observations is fundamental in testing and improving physical understanding. Among the most important physics, we want to test include fundamental dark matter physics and the emergent physics of stellar feedback; dwarf galaxies are ideal laboratories for both.
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Apr 15, 2024 | 
academic.oup.com | Pomona College
The cosmological constant + cold dark matter (ΛCDM) model proposes the existence of non-luminous, collisionless (dark) matter that governs galactic dynamics and is essential for structure formation in the Universe (see review; Salucci 2019).
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Apr 10, 2024 | 
tsl.news | Jenna McMurtry |Pomona College
On Friday, April 5, students occupied Pomona College’s Alexander Hall in a protest condemning the administration’s removal of a ‘mock apartheid wall.’ Pomona had 19 of them arrested. The last thing that comes to mind when sounds of nearly two dozen police cars are blaring at the heart of campus is that your own college president has authorized a call for police on peaceful student protesters. In fact, the first thing that comes to mind is far worse.
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Mar 29, 2024 | 
tsl.news | Kahani Malhotra |Pomona College
Laughter and conversation emanated from Oldenborg dining hall on Wednesday, March 20 as it debuted its new Finnish language table, with attendees teaching each other phrases, passing around language books and conversing in Finnish. The Oldenborg Language Tables at Pomona College occur every weekday from 12 to 1 p.m., offering languages including Spanish, Amharic, ASL and now Finnish.
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Feb 9, 2024 | 
tsl.news | Ananya Vinay |Pomona College |Tish Harrison Warren
In the fast-paced nature of contemporary life, joy is often perceived as a goal to be achieved. On Feb. 1, Tish Harrison Warren asked the audience at Pomona College’s Rose Hills Theater to rethink this mindset at her talk “The Texture of Joy.” Warren, an Anglican priest, author and New York Times contributor, reflected on the complex process of defining and cultivating true joy and contentment.
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Jan 22, 2024 | 
hechoencalifornia1010.com | Pomona College
Margaret (“Peggy”) Dornish, emerita professor of religious studies, died in San Marcos, California, on December 27 at the age of 89. Dornish attended Smith College from 1952-1956, where she majored in English language and literature and graduated magna cum laude. While studying religion at Claremont Graduate School in the late 1960s, she became interested in Buddhism, both on a scholarly and personal level. “Her dissertation on D. T.
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Dec 9, 2023 | 
academic.oup.com | Pomona College
Understanding the evolution of satellite galaxies of the Milky Way (MW) and M31 requires modeling their orbital histories across cosmic time. Many works that model satellite orbits incorrectly assume or approximate that the host halo gravitational potential is fixed in time and is spherically symmetric or axisymmetric. We rigorously benchmark the accuracy of such models against the FIRE-2 cosmological baryonic simulations of MW/M31-mass halos.
