Iris
An iris blooms in the Rose Garden at Cal Poly Pomona on February 28, 2014.…
Neto to Lead Semester Conversion Efforts
Dr. Francelina Neto, chair of the Department of Civil Engineering, has been named by Provost Marten denBoer as director of the semester conversion initiative. The campus will convert to a semester calendar in fall 2017. Neto will chair the University…
New Websites Launching This Week
The next phase of the university’s website redesign project will be launching at the end of the week. Phase 2a includes nearly 100 sites in several divisions across the university. The redesign is a long-range project to make the university’s…
PolyCentric to Feature University Events Calendar
The upcoming redesign of PolyCentric news will feature a number of changes designed to take advantage of the university’s master Events Calendar. PolyCentric currently has an events page that lists user-submitted events. In the redesign, PolyCentric’s Events link will directly take…
Redesign of PolyCentric Coming Soon
PolyCentric will be upgrading its design and infrastructure in a few weeks, improving the way stories and photos are displayed and organized. The changes are part of the university’s web redesign project, whose goal is to better serve the needs…
College Expo for Asian & Pacific Islander Students
When Thavery Lay-Bounpraseuth decided to apply for colleges, she faced far more obstacles than the average student. Lay-Bounpraseuth immigrated to the United States when she was 5 as a refugee from Cambodia. Since her parents had no experience with the…
Pizza with the Presidents Recap
Semester conversion, the new recreation center and parking were on students’ minds during the winter quarter Pizza with the Presidents. University President Michael Ortiz also addressed a couple of questions about his retirement at the end of the year during…
Photo Contest Winners Announced
How do you capture Cal Poly Pomona in photos? Arabian horses, Cal Poly Pomona’s scenic campus, and the CLA Building are the three winners of an online vote in the 75th Anniversary Photo Contest. The photos are: “Oscillation in Space”…
Pizza with the Presidents is Tuesday, Feb. 4
Students can get a free dinner and ask questions of university leaders at the quarterly Pizza with the Presidents on Tuesday, Feb. 4. The hour-long Q&A with university President Michael Ortiz and ASI President Christine Hall will begin at 6 p.m.…
“Solid year seen for region’s real estate in 2014”
Michael Carney, director of the real estate research council and a finance and real estate professor at Cal Poly Pomona, said that across Southern California home prices appreciated 18.3 percent in the year although the volume of home sales was…