Backstories: Robby Goldman '15
This week, we chat with volcanologist Robby Goldman ’15. Mentored at Pomona by Prof. Eric Grosfils, Goldman studies the physics of eruptions from Hawaii's volcanoes and how scientists communicate erup...
16 Sep 202045min
Backstories: Professor Pey-Yi Chu
This week, we welcome Associate Professor of History Pey-Yi Chu, a historian of Russia and the former Soviet Union, who discusses her research aimed at understanding the environment through the histor...
9 Sep 202045min
Backstories: Joe Palca ’74
This week, we welcome longtime NPR science correspondent Joe Palca ’74. Since joining NPR in 1992, Palca has covered a variety of science topics, from biomedical research to astronomy. He is currently...
2 Sep 20201h 2min
Backstories: Jennifer Doudna '85
This week, we’re joined by internationally renowned biochemist Jennifer Doudna ’85, the co-discoverer of CRISPR-Cas9, a revolutionary gene-editing tool that has had an unprecedented impact on the worl...
26 Aug 202048min
Backstories: Professor Jo Hardin '95
This week, our guest is Professor of Mathematics Jo Hardin ’95, who specializes in statistics and bioinformatics, the use of statistical data to study the human genome. In this episode of Sagecast, Ha...
19 Aug 202041min
Backstories: Douglas Preston '78
This week we’re joined by The New York Times bestselling author Douglas Preston ’78. An accomplished journalist, Preston is the author of more than 20 novels including the Special Agent Pendergast ser...
12 Aug 202056min
Backstories: Professor Sam Yamashita
This week we're joined by Henry E. Sheffield Professor of History, Sam Yamashita. A longtime Pomona College professor, Yamashita shares about his early childhood passion for baseball growing up in Haw...
5 Aug 202050min
Backstories: Lynda Obst '72
In this episode, we’re joined by Lynda Obst ‘72, the renowned film producer of such groundbreaking films as The Fisher King, Sleepless in Seattle, Interstellar —among many more. Several of her films a...
29 Jul 202053min
