Cal Poly Pomona’s cybersecurity team repeated last year’s win to again take first place at the 2022-23 Collegiate Penetration Testing Competition (CPTC). After beating nine colleges to win the regionals, CPP’s Cybersecurity team took on 15 finalists to win the final…
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Physics and Astronomy Department Chair Hector Mireles died Sept. 16, after a 14-month battle with cancer. He was 56 years old. Mireles came to Cal Poly Pomona in 2002. In 2016, he stepped into the role of department chair. Like…
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Desert rock? The phrase may conjure up images of Coachella, but we’re talking granite rock, mostly, and the star is Associate Professor Nicholas Van Buer from the Department of Geological Sciences. Van Buer is using his sabbatical to film a YouTube series…
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Beloved Professor Emerita Jill Adler-Moore, who dedicated 47 years to teaching and mentoring students at Cal Poly Pomona, died on June 14 after a recurrence of pancreatic cancer. She is survived by husband Larry J. Moore; son and daughter-in-law Matthew…
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Professor Emeritus Laszlo Szijj, who taught in the Department of Biological Sciences for 40 years, has died of cardiac arrest after a lengthy battle with leukemia. He was 88. Szijj (pronounced “see”) immigrated to Canada from Hungary and received his…
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Barbara Dev, who served as a lecturer and taught biochemistry in the College of Science, died on Oct. 8 after a long battle with ovarian cancer. She earned her bachelor’s degree at Holy Names College in Oakland, California then attended…
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Astronomy student Christina Vides wants to assure you that we have not made contact with aliens. At least not yet. “We definitely want to emphasize that we did not find aliens,” Vides quipped. “But we did come up with a…
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Cal Poly Pomona is part of a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to increase the number of underrepresented minorities pursuing Ph.D.s in mathematics. The project, called BAMM! Bolstering the Advancement of Masters in Mathematics, is a…
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The Cal Poly Pomona College of Science was awarded a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation to support the success of socio-economic disadvantaged scholars in the sciences through a new program called “SPIRES,” which stands for Scholars Program…
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Junjun Liu, professor of biological sciences, has received a four-year $420,000 National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to study “How Usp16-Mediated Histone Deubiquitination Regulates Breast Cancer Cell Invasion.” “The study is expected to reveal a new mechanism of metastasis regulation and…
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