Cal Poly Pomona has earned a three-year National Science Foundation (NSF) Innovation Corps (I-Corps) grant to identify promising research and development projects on campus and help find ways to commercialize them. The university is only one of three CSUs and…
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Ángel A. Valdés, professor of biological sciences, is part of a team that discovered three new species of sea slugs. They named one of the new species Placida barackobamai, to recognize President Barack Obama’s efforts to reduce carbon emissions globally…
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A faculty member in the physics and astronomy department has been awarded a $650,000 federal grant that will be used to fund research into star formation, as well as two outreach efforts: the Milky Way Project, a crowd-sourced search for…
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The Great California ShakeOut, the quarterly Safety Alert System test and a visit by the U.S. secretary of agriculture top President Ortiz’s weekly video update. The Great California ShakeOut will take place at 10:16 a.m. this Thursday. It is a…
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Cal Poly Pomona has received a $203,000 Major Research Instrumentation Program award from the National Science Foundation to purchase a scanning electron microscope (SEM). The microscope will be housed in an engineering lab, but will be accessible to other departments,…
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A recent profile from the American Society of Engineering Education shows that 21 percent of Cal Poly Pomona’s engineering faculty are women, putting the university second in California, and above all UCs and the other CSUs. Contributing to this success…
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In an effort to encourage girls to pursue cybersecurity and other high-tech careers, the College of Business Administration’s Center for Information Assurance is hosting a special “CyberGirlz” Summit July 12 on campus. More than 100 high school and middle school…
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In his first video update of the spring quarter, President Ortiz addresses a fatal bus accident in Northern California, reminds the campus community of an upcoming safety alert test, and talks about “solar-powered sea slugs.” Assistance is available for Cal…
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Sometimes the toughest thing about college isn’t college itself, but what comes immediately afterward. Recent graduates may enter the workforce and find that their classroom knowledge doesn’t necessarily translate into job skills. Those bound for doctoral programs might be prepared…
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A new grant worth nearly $8 million—the largest Cal Poly Pomona has ever received—will soon begin providing funding for a groundbreaking science education partnership with the Pomona Unified School District.
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