Professor Lauren Weiss Bricker has been appointed interim dean of the College of Environmental Design following the retirement of Michael Woo. Her one-year appointment begins Aug. 19. Bricker, a professor of architecture for 20 years, is the current director of…
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Michael Woo, the first urban planner, the first Asian American and second-longest-serving dean of the College of Environmental Design, is retiring after 10 years of service. Lauren Bricker, professor of architecture and director of the ENV Archives-Special Collections, begins her…
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The team of Paraday Sarun, Mariana Uy and Matthew Rivera, all architecture students from the class of 2019, won the Los Angeles Business Council’s 2019 Julius Shulman Emerging Talent Award, following their presentation to industry leaders. Each year the Los…
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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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* This article was updated on 5/14/19. Cal Poly Pomona’s 63rd Commencement ceremonies will award degrees to about 6,070 students over eight ceremonies on May 17, 18 and 19. The events will feature high-profile guest speakers, including Lt. Governor Eleni…
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In his six-decade career, Frank Gehry revolutionized architecture’s aesthetics and techniques and recast its relationship with cities as one of the modern era’s early advocates of design’s inherent social responsibility. For his pioneering work, the Department of Architecture honored Gehry…
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Landscape architecture professor Andrew Wilcox was voted one of the nation’s Top 25 Most Admired Educators in Architecture, Interiors, and Landscape Architecture by DesignIntelligence, a national firm whose closely followed annual surveys track industry and education trends in the design,…
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A group of 65 Cal Poly Pomona students accepted the NASA eXploration Systems and Habitation (X-Hab) Academic Innovation Challenge and designed and built a functional, innovative prototype that increases functionality for human space exploration missions. The Mars habitation module (CPP-HAB),…
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New Mexico-based artist Sasha vom Dorp wants you to see the interplay of light, sound and water in fleeting, microscopic moments. Vom Dorp captured these split-seconds in a series of photographs and multisensory video installations that are at the heart…
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Two top Disney executives, Chipotle’s chief of HR and the president of Harvey Mudd College are the featured guest speakers at Cal Poly Pomona’s 62nd Commencement ceremonies, from June 8 to 10. About 6,600 students are graduating with bachelor’s, master’s…
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