Achievements

Elke Azpeitia

Veterans Center Coordinator to Receive Women of Achievement Award

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The coordinator of services at the Cal Poly Pomona Veterans Resource Center has been selected to receive a 2017 Women of Achievement Award in the 22nd State Senate District.

 

Elke Azpeitia (’07, philosophy; ’11, master’s in public administration), who led the establishment of the Veterans Resource Center in 2012, will receive the honor during a ceremony on March 24 at the Covina Center for the Performing Arts.

Azpeitia is being recognized for her impact on the lives of military service members, veterans and their families.

“I am humbled and honored. This award is a symbol of Cal Poly Pomona’s commitment to supporting student veteran success,” Azpeitia said. “I am …

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Accounting Professor Sharyn Fisk was one of five new members selected to the Internal Revenue Service Advisory Council (IRSAC).

Accounting Professor Selected for Influential IRS Advisory Council

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A College of Business Administration faculty member has been chosen for an elite group of taxation experts that provide the Internal Revenue Service with policy-shaping input.

Accounting Professor Sharyn Fisk was one of five new members selected to the Internal Revenue Service Advisory Council (IRSAC), a group established in 1953 that the IRS commissioner and leadership turn to for feedback.

“If there was an issue before, I could write to someone in the IRS or a taxpayer advocate with no guarantees it would make it all the way up the chain,” Fisk says. “To be working inside the IRS and present issues directly is phenomenal.”

The 20-member IRSAC team, which …

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Team of Cal Poly Pomona at the Golf Course Superintendent Association of America’s Collegiate Turf Bowl Competition.

Cal Poly Pomona Team Takes 2nd Place in National Turf Competition

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They fought to the bitter end, only to come up a little short.

For the second year in a row, a team of Cal Poly Pomona students took second place at the Golf Course Superintendent Association of America’s Collegiate Turf Bowl Competition.

The team of Brian Fuertes, Mark Nakatsui, Eric Green, and Sean McLaughlin actually tied Penn State for first place during the Feb. 9 competition in Orlando, forcing a tiebreaker. But Penn State emerged as the champion for the second year in a row.

The Cal Poly Pomona team took home $2,000 in prize money. It finished ahead of teams from schools such as Auburn, Michigan State, Nebraska, Maryland …

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Mark Allen, longtime Cal Poly Pomona anthropology professor, has been published in a prestigious journal.

Professor’s Study on Prehistoric Violence Published in PNAS

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A longtime Cal Poly Pomona anthropology professor who studies violence among prehistoric people in California has been published in a prestigious journal.

Professor Mark Allen’s study, titled “Resource scarcity drives lethal aggression among prehistoric hunter-gathers in central California,” was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, one of the top journals highlighting the general sciences. Allen teamed up with professors at U.C. Davis, the University of Utah, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and an archeologist for the Sacramento-based Millennia Archeological Consulting.

“You have to have something significant,” Allen says of what it takes to be published in the journal. “You have …

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MingHeng Li, a professor of chemical and materials engineering, has been named an associate editor of a peer-reviewed journal focused on renewable and sustainable energy.

Engineering Professor Named Associate Editor of Journal

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MingHeng Li, a professor of chemical and materials engineering, has been named an associate editor of a peer-reviewed journal focused on renewable and sustainable energy.

Li, who joined Cal Poly Pomona in 2007 and received his Ph.D. from UCLA in 2004, will be an editor for the Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy, which is published by the American Institute of Physics. The editors chosen for the publication are scholars from universities and research labs.

Li has also worked for PPG Industries, which manufactures paints and coatings, has published more than 40 peer-reviewed articles on topics ranging from energy to water desalination. He received the College of Engineering’s Outstanding …

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Gerry and Rayhan Patia won first place at Hack Harvard for their Polyglot translator.

Brothers Teaming Up Translates into HackHarvard Win

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A pair of brothers, who have invented a device that can translate a conversation into other languages on the fly, won this year’s HackHarvard, a 36-hour hackathon sponsored by Harvard University.

Gerry Fernando Patia, a College of Engineering computer engineering student; and Reyhan Fernando Patia, a College of Science computer science student, say their product, which they dubbed PolyGlot, was born out of a trip to Japan.

“During a trip last summer, my brother and I had difficulties communicating with the people,” says Gerry. “Just asking for simple things such as directions, ordering foods, or how much things were worth was extremely difficult since we didn’t know Japanese. The experience …

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Dennis Quinn, interim associate dean in the College of Education & Integrative Studies, was recently published in an anthology on Christian theology.

Interim Associate Dean Publishes Essay in Anthology

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Dennis Quinn was recently published in the anthology “Suffering and Evil in Early Christian Thought,” the fourth book in the Holy Cross Studies in Patristic Theology and History series.

His essay, “The Enemies of God,” focuses on the Christian intellectual Lactantius and how his experience of the Great Persecutions formed his view of demons and God.

“Lactantius believed that the pagan rulers of the Roman Empire were being ruled by demons, particularly the persecuting emperors like Diocletian,” he says. “He saw Constantine as the savior of the empire, with God on his side. This parallels his cosmic view of the fall of the angels and Christ’s power to bring God’s …

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Darren Isomoto, Bruce Kennedy, Daniel Mello and Christina Wade are recipients of the Amelia Hammond Staff Council Scholarships.

Amelia Hammond Scholarship and Emeritus Award Recipients Celebrated

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Recipients of the 2016 Amelia Hammond Staff Council Scholarship got a welcome surprise when University President Soraya M. Coley doubled the amount of money they would receive this year.

The scholarship award was $300, but Coley told the crowd at the Nov. 8 ceremony that her office would match it, increasing the amount to $600.

“We’re proud of you, of your commitment to pursue knowledge and continue your education,” she said to the four scholarship winners. “We know for many of us, it is not a straight path…I want to acknowledge your determination and applaud you for that.”

The Amelia Hammond Staff Scholarship was created in 1979 to help staff …

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Marketing management students Jessica Rockwell and Kevin Schroyer win big at 2016 Pi Sigma Epsilon Western Regional Pro-Am Sell-A-Thon held last month in San Diego.

Two Years, Two Wins for CBA Sales Fraternity

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The site of the 2016 Pi Sigma Epsilon Western Regional Pro-Am Sell-A-Thon moved south to San Diego, but the result for the College of Business Administration’s chapter was the same as last: The top two spots belonged to its members.

Third-year marketing management student Jessica Rockwell took top honors at Sell-A-Thon, held Oct. 21-22, where students sold Liberty Mutual group benefits to judges taking on the role of executives from Falcon Data Services.

“It felt like all of the preparation paid off,” Rockwell says. “Going from second place last year to first place this year, it definitely tells me that I’ve grown as a soon-to-be sales professional.”

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Femineer students from Fremont Academy of Engineering and Design in Pomona met recently with Sirisha Yadlapati, senior program director at the Motorola Solutions Foundation, and shared their experiences with the Wearable Electronics and Raspberry Pi programs as part of the first cohort of Femineers at Cal Poly Pomona.

University and Motorola Team Up on Programs for Women in STEM

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Cal Poly Pomona, along with Motorola Solutions Foundation, is helping female students excel in the STEM fields through innovative and interactive educational programs.

For two consecutive academic years, Cal Poly Pomona has received  grants totaling $45,000 as part of the Innovation Generation Grant program from the Motorola Solutions Foundation, the charitable arm of Motorola Solutions, Inc. The grants helped launch the Wearable Electronics program and the Raspberry Pi program in the College of Engineering. These programs are part of Femineers, a college-wide program that inspires young female students to pursue education and careers in STEM.

The Motorola Solutions Foundation’s Innovation Generation program awards organizations and universities that support STEM …

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