Professor of History Zuoyue Wang has been elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the most influential general scientific organization in the United States. The title is one of the highest professional honors for…
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Preserving history takes patience and skill. It is a process that requires you to have an open mind and an ability to interpret, understand, and give meaning to the past. For Cal Poly Pomona history graduates Guadalupe Rojas and Cecilia…
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A mother whose daughter was killed during clashes over Apartheid in South Africa. A neurosurgeon who researches the effects of compassion on health. A filmmaker who told the story of the transformative power of meditation on a group of prisoners.…
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Mahmood Ibrahim, a longtime professor in the history department, has been named the 2016-17 recipient of the George P. Hart Award for Outstanding Faculty Leadership. Ibrahim specializes in teaching Middle East history in the College of Letters, Arts & Social Sciences and…
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Sabrina Lemmon can shift easily from working with a socket wrench at Temple City Powersports to taking lecture notes for her classes at Cal Poly Pomona. Making those kinds of abrupt adjustments have been part of Lemmon’s detour-filled path to…
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American-educated Chinese scientists have a long and mostly unknown history of contributions to the United States. History Professor Zuoyue Wang hopes to bring that history out of the shadows. His receipt of a multi-year $236,000 grant from the National Science…
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When John Pohlmann began his career as a history professor more than a half century ago, the world was a starkly different place. President John Kennedy had been assassinated, the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 had passed, and students…
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Provost Marten denBoer honored this year’s Outstanding Academic Advisors for their dedication to students at an awards reception on May 5 in the Bronco Student Center’s Ursa Minor. In addition to the 10 individual awards, one outstanding program was honored.…
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Gloria Ricci Lothrop, a pioneering California historian who was the first female professor hired to teach in Cal Poly Pomona’s history department, died Feb. 2 in Arcadia after battling chronic pulmonary disease and pneumonia. She was 80. Lothrop joined the…
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Scholars from the CSU, UC and universities abroad will come to Cal Poly Pomona to discuss top issues in the Middle East today ¿ the uprisings against repressive and dictatorial regimes, the causes, the forces behind the rebellions, and the…
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