At her high school in suburban Boston, Iris Levine’s aptitude tests earmarked her for a career as an accountant. Her mother sounded a different note. “If you want to go to school for accounting, you’ll live at home and go…
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For English Professor Kate Ozment, the 18th century holds literary artifacts important to history, especially as it relates to the voices of Black and Indigenous people. Ozment’s continued research and reading of 18th century Black and Indigenous writings have won…
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Michael Reibel, a dedicated and beloved professor in the Department of Geography and Anthropology, died unexpectedly on Nov. 12. Reibel began teaching at Cal Poly Pomona in 1998. He was an urban geographer and demographer who specialized in geographic trends…
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Earlier this month, under yellow skies from local fires, Downtown Los Angeles recorded the worst smog in 26 years. Since the winter of 2018, an on-campus air quality monitor located on top of the Colleges of Letters Arts and Social…
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Elgrie Jones Hurd III has taught every grade from kindergarten to 12th, as well as graduate school. He has been a dean of student services at a private college, developed a tutoring program at a chiropractic school and ran an…
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For Anthony Ocampo, it’s a chance to bolster faculty diversity across the CSU system. For Bri Sérráno, it’s needed financial support as they work to complete their doctorate and an opportunity to tap into their research to impact policy related…
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Students everywhere found summer plans disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Jobs and internships evaporated. Research in some labs ground to a halt. But not for everyone: These students from Cal Poly Pomona’s College of Letters, Arts, and Social Sciences are…
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The “Transnational ‘Good Life’ Ecuadorian Social Clubs as Spaces of Resistance” is the latest published work of anthropology and geography lecturer Linda Hall. Hall’s inspiration for the book stems from the friendships she made throughout her education with Ecuadorians studying in the…
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The College of Letters, Arts, and Social Sciences’ Geography Professor Gabriel Granco was awarded the Agricultural Research Institute (ARI) Grant for nearly $10,000. The research aims to address the production of specialty crops in California by tapping into geospatial technology…
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Nearly three decades after the beating of Rodney King by LAPD officers was caught on tape, echoes of the past are resurfacing in the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers and the ensuing protests and…
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