Leslie Rivers, a professor emerita from the theatre department, recently won a National Indies Excellence Award for her novel “Fiery Star: The Journals of Emma Rose Lightfoot.” Rivers won the top prize in the regional fiction west category. She also…
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California Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis shared her personal story and congratulated the Class of 2019 at Cal Poly Pomona’s College of Letters, Arts, and Social Sciences. Kounalakis, a member of the CSU Board of Trustees, is the daughter of a…
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Flutist Shannon Canchola, an adjunct music lecturer, will perform with her award-winning chamber ensemble ACE Trio at the Music Teachers’ Association of California (MTAC) convention. Each of the members of the ACE Trio will give their own master class, as…
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Elizabeth Zangenberg was in her early 60s – a nontraditional student – when she first caught a glimpse of the Native American Student Center at University Plaza during her first-year orientation campus tour. She was uncertain if she was Native…
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The Associated Students Inc. (ASI) elections committee announced Pasindu Senaratne and Rachel Hunter as the 2019-20 ASI president-elect and vice president-elect, respectively, after voting concluded on April 18. Senaratne is a third-year student studying finance, real estate and law. He…
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Outgoing ASI President Jenny Greenberg aspires to be a difference maker. The graduating senior, who will cross the stage to receive her bachelor’s degree in sociology with an emphasis in criminology on May 18, has felt that pull since she…
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Marisol Ibarra first honed her political chops taking on leadership roles in high school and rubbing elbows with city leaders as a volunteer at community events in her native South Gate. Now, the graduating political science senior is helping a…
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A recently launched discussion series called “Dudes Understanding Diversity and Eliminating Stereotypes (DUDES) Dialogues,” hosted by liberal studies major Arturo Castro in partnership with the Women’s Resource Center, will continue to examine issues of masculinity and gender expectations. The next…
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A new composition titled Double Klondike (2018) by Kevin J. Garnica was recently premiered on campus. Yafei Lin and Vernon Snyder, performing as the Lin-Snyder Duo, debuted the piece at the CPP Piano Ensemble concert in November. Snyder is an…
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Service-learning courses in the music department give Cal Poly Pomona students an opportunity to work with the university’s community partners such as the Pomona Unified School District. The classes also enable the students to extend the learn-by-doing approach beyond the…
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