Kylene Glisson knows how to wrangle a class of 3- to 5-year-olds. The preschool teacher is an expert at getting them focused when their attention wanes and keeping them entertained. But doing all of that through Zoom, once the campus…
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Up and down the California coast, purple sea urchins have devastated kelp forests. In Southern California, hundreds of acres of the underwater giant kelp forests, Macrocystis pyrifera, have been devoured, leaving bare rock coastal terrain devoid of habitat for lobsters…
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The Office of Student Life and Cultural Centers held a joint virtual cultural graduation celebration on May 14, celebrating graduating students with the inclusion of traditions and practices from the six traditional cultural graduation celebrations. The theme of the program…
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From the time she was a senior in high school, Karina Ortiz Villa knew she wanted to be a philosopher seeking and finding answers to complex questions. While taking a class in high school where she read the works of…
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This year’s Scholarship Fest awarded over 340 scholarships and $1.65 million to Cal Poly Pomona students, a 20 percent increase in scholarships and an additional $300,000 more than the $1.35 million awarded the previous year. The “fest,” launched in 2019,…
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Commencement looked much different from year’s past for the classes of 2020 and 2021. Graduates and their families and friends drove their cars into rows in front of a stage set up at Fairplex in Pomona instead of making the…
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Cal Poly Pomona’s virtual Alumni Professor for a Day (PFAD) featured more than 140 industry professionals from the graduating classes of 1968 through 2020. Held since 1998, alumni partner with faculty to speak with university students in their classroom. Alumni…
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Gov. Gavin Newsom’s May revise of his proposed budget includes more than $800 million in recurring and one-time funding slated for the CSU system. Faced with a recession brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, Newsom cut $299 million in funding…
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Kelly Wong entered Cal Poly Pomona as an engineering technology major, but a lifelong love affair with art will see her graduate with a BFA in visual communication design and double-minors in art history and studio arts at the top of her class…
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The Classes of 2020 and 2021 will celebrate their graduation at commencement ceremonies over the coming days, ending a long journey they shared with family, friends, professors and classmates, to name a few. For many of these graduates, the COVID-19…
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