Larry McMillan, a former engineering professor who mentored faculty and students and was instrumental in helping to raise funds for the construction of Building 17, has died. McMillan, a Los Angeles native and a U.S. Navy veteran who served in…
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The Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program has selected its first faculty fellow. Alejandro Morales, an associate professor of psychology, has been awarded the fellowship. The McNair Faculty Fellow will play a critical role in supporting first-generation and low-income, or…
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Stephen Cosmas, professor emeritus in the international business & marketing department, died Nov. 23 at his home in the Philippines. He was 70.
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Wherever she goes, Babette Mayor brings her camera. “I know from experience that I could find the most amazing image right around the corner,” she says. The art professor’s perception paid off when three of her photographs were accepted into…
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Francelina A. Neto, chair of the civil engineering department, won the Bentley Educator of the Year award for her achievements in higher education and academics.
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An industrial and manufacturing engineering professor collaborated on a mobile app website platform that garnered national attention this summer from the White House. Shokoufeh Mirzaei and five other developers and entrepreneurs helped found UrbanFruit.ly. The mobile app and website platform…
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Cal Poly Pomona will award an honorary doctorate to alumnus and South Korean immigrant Hae Park at commencement this year, President Ortiz said in his weekly video update.
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Mary Kay Switzer, associate professor of communication, has been recognized for her contributions to the Inland Empire at the 2013 International Women’s Festival. The festival, hosted in Santa Barbara on Feb. 8, is a celebration of women in leadership positions.…
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Walter Coombs, a professor emeritus and longtime chairman of the social sciences department, died March 31. Coombs, 94 had served as a professor in the then-social sciences department from 1971 to 1992.
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When someone sets out to buy a house, they might make their decision based on wall-to-wall carpeting, some well-tended shrubs, or a white picket fence, right? Not so much, says Cal Poly Pomona economics Professor Carsten Lange. Prospective buyers generally…
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