Eating isn’t just essential to our survival — it’s engrained in our social, cultural and political worlds. In this compilation of articles, students from BIOL 183: Nutritional Biology go behind the issues that affect our bodily and mental health.
Tag: Science
CMC’s Robert Day Sciences Center opens nearly four years after breaking ground
This fall, the Robert Day Sciences Center (RDSC) at Claremont McKenna College has officially opened after starting construction nearly four years ago.
Lab Notes: Professors weigh in — ‘everyone should try research’
Summer research continues this week, but it’s time to ask professors about the value of student research. Professor Aaron Leconte and Visiting Professor Taia Wu recount their Scripps-Pitzer lab that modifies DNA polymerase to improve drug delivery systems. Wu, a Scripps student researcher turned professor, now guides students through summer research and shares the benefits of summer research from the lab’s lead professors.
Lab Notes: Newts, rats and summer research at Claremont
You’ve seen the fliers dotting the boards in the halls of the Nucleus and Estella advertising mysterious summer opportunities, maybe you even fought through rounds of interviews yourself to no avail. Fear not, Malin Moeller SC ’27 answers the question on the minds of many: What is summer research even like?
Science as a Human Endeavor: A mole of calcium walks into a lab … and gets replaced by lithium
Big Pharma uses it. It costs $44,000 (a price that has now risen to over $82,000). Pomona students and chemistry professor Nicholas Ball are developing smarter ways to make the molecules behind common medicines.
Science as Human Endeavor: Turning science education into scientific practice
Have you ever wondered how your science education connects to the global challenges that will define your future? Columnist Gabriel Brenner PO ’26 writes on the CHEM23 Discovering Chemistry w/ Lab course, which aims to blend scientific education with real-life applications.
Centering Black technoscientific aesthetics in science and beyond
Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein spoke at CMC’s Pickford Auditorium on March 7 for the 37th annual Sojourner Truth Lecture, which has brought outstanding African American women to campus since 1983. Prescod-Weinstein, a theoretical physicist and theorist of Black feminist science studies, discussed Black cosmological storytelling.
The 61st Robbins Lecture: Carolyn Bertozzi on bioorthogonal chemistry
Bioorthogonal chemistry, a new field pioneered by Carolyn Bertozzi, has significant applications ranging from tuberculosis testing to cell therapies. A recipient of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Bertozzi spoke at the Pomona College Chemistry Department’s 61st annual Robbins Lecture Series from Feb. 24 to 26.
Science as a Human Endeavor: A professor’s call to humanize science education
Many students enter into science majors out of curiosity about our world and their place in it. Gabriel Brenner PO ’26 discusses recentering scientific learning around human experience, and physics professor Elijah Quetin’s efforts to do just that.
Art history’s physics problem: Charles Falco speaks at the Benton
In an age where many fear the automation of art, physicist Charles Falco reminds us that the intersection of technology and art is anything but new. On the afternoon of Nov. 14 at Pomona College’s Benton Museum of Art, Falco presented the Hockney-Falco thesis, regarded as having “shak[en] the foundations