Chocolate Pod
BioTrek Curator Mike Brown shows Upward Bound students a cacoa pod at BioTrek. Brown taught the recent high school grads how to make chocolate.…
BioTrek Welcomes Several New Additions
For those who love baby animals, BioTrek recently welcomed six new additions to The Rainforest Learning Center. All of the newcomers are endangered in their native habitat, which makes their arrival more meaningful to the campus and all the students…
BioTrek Waterfall
The waterfall at the Ethnobotany Lab at BioTrek at Cal Poly Pomona.…
Waterfall
Waterfall in the Ethnobotany lab at BioTrek at Cal Poly Pomona.…
BioTrek Curator Named Provost’s Award Staff Member of the Year
Hands-on learning doesn’t get much more hands-on than with Mike Brown, whose hands happen to come with green thumbs. Brown was responsible for envisioning and creating Rain Bird BioTrek, an on-campus simulated rainforest used in education and outreach. In his…
Ceonothus
Greenbark Ceanothus blooms at the Rainbird Ethnobotany Lab at BioTrek at Cal Poly Pomona.…
Chinese Students Discover Science at Cal Poly Pomona
A group of 52 visiting Chinese students dissected sharks and got up close and personal with Cal Poly Pomona’s resident spectacled caiman (a crocodile-like repitile) at this summer’s Discovery Camp. Students from the Second Foreign Languages School of Nanshan Shenzen…
Discovery Camp goes to BioTrek
Chinese students meet Galaxy, a green iguana, during a tour of BioTrek during Discover Camp at the College of Science at Cal Poly Pomona.…
Sierra Madre Lobelia
Sierra Madre Lobelia blooms in the Ethnobotany Lab at BioTrek.…
Biotrek Bloom
A flower blooms at the Biotrek Ethnobotany Learning Center at Cal Poly Pomona.…