Alumni Jennifer Doudna PO ’85, Stewart Smith PO ’68 announced as Pomona commencement speakers

Nobel Prize-winning biochemist Jennifer Doudna PO ’85 and Kinsmith Financial Corporation CEO Stewart Smith PO ’68 will speak at the Pomona College class of 2022’s commencement ceremony, Pomona President G. Gabrielle Starr announced to students via email Feb. 15.

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Pomona College alumna wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Pomona College alumna Jennifer Doudna PO ’85 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020 Wednesday for developing a genome editing method with Emmanuelle Charpentier. She is the first Pomona alumna to receive the prize and part of the first women duo to win a Nobel in the sciences. Doudna

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