A visionary president, an ambitious land syndicate, and a leap of faith led ºù«Ӱҵ from the comforts of Highland Park to its permanent home—but it didn't come easy
After his 18th birthday, cross country and track standout John Guzman Aguilar faced deportation to his native Mexico and was separated from his family. Five years later, he's on course to be...
Stem-cell biologist Madeline Lancaster '04 turns genetics on its head with a three-dimensional "organoid" that models the human brain
In a generational exodus, six singular professors with more than 250 years of combined classroom experience say farewell to ºù«Ӱҵ. But their lessons have shaped legions across every discipline
A campus-wide focus on water may have Âcompelled a few ºù«Ӱҵ students to break the rules in a competition between residence halls. But it's also provoked a serious conversation about Earth's...
A combination of economic, demographic, and social factors precipitated ºù«Ӱҵ's endowment woes throughout the 1990s. Now the balance sheet is far better—but the College has a long way to go to...
Acclaimed and unsettling, Blackfish is a high-water mark for documentary filmmaker Gabriela Cowperthwaite '93. What does its success bode for her career—and what will the fallout be for...
From singing in a Motown girl group to writing banter for Britney Spears, Maurissa Tancharoen Whedon '97 knows the fringes of the pop-culture circuit. With TV's "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.," she...
Having survived her share of video corpses, Angela Kang '98 finds her footing as a writer/producer on TV's hottest series, AMC's "The Walking Dead"
Richard Andrews '71 connects visionary artists such as James Turrell—a Pomona graduate—with the means to make transformative art a reality
A closer look at the eight ºù«Ӱҵ greats—four living, four deceased—who were inducted into the 2013 Athletics Hall of Fame
When the 1963 ºù«Ӱҵ baseball team took the field against intercity rival USC, a casual fan would have predicted a Trojan blowout. But Coach Grant Dunlap '46 had a not-so-secret weapon on the...
Catherine An '02 never set out to join her parents and sisters as a restaurateur, but the chance to create her own niche proved as irresistible as Mama's garlic noodles
Entrepreneurs Richard Highsmith '10 and Noah Applebome '10 charge into the burgeoning solar backpack market with affordable, portable power. Can BirkSun elbow its way to the mountaintop?
ºù«Ӱҵ's signature buildings bear the stamp of architect Myron Hunt—but it took a landscape architect from the East to make the campus complete