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By Samson Zhang 2670 Views 2022, Alumni, Andrea Pierre, ASPC, Board of Trustees, Commencement, Gerardo Rodriguez, Graduation, Huntington Library, Jennifer Doudna, Kinsmith Financial Corporation, Nirali Devgan, Nobel Prize, Pomona College, President, Smith Campus Center, Stewart Smith

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.

Arts & Culture

March 8, 2021 2:14 pm

Nobel Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro captivates audience at Scripps Presents collaboration

By Gabriel Sherman 4141 Views Author, Events, Kazuo Ishiguro, Literature, Nobel Prize, Novels, PEN Out Loud, Scripps College, Scripps Presents, Speaker Event, Writing

Winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in literature, Kazuo Ishiguro spoke at Scripps Presents on March 4. to discuss his most recent novel “Klara and the Sun,” his past career as a musician and his tendency to write about “ordinary” people.

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October 7, 2020 1:53 pmOctober 8, 2020 10:46 am

Pomona College alumna wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry

By Anushe Engineer 8860 Views Biochemistry, CRISPR, Genome editing, Jennifer Doudna, Nobel Prize, Pomona College

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