As schools invest more in student mental health support, Claire Latané, associate professor of landscape architecture and founder and director of the Collaborative for Healthy and Inclusive Learning Environments (CHILE), works with schools to create supportive spaces. Her recommendations include…
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Cal Poly Pomona’s Femineer program will be taught in four middle schools and two comprehensive high schools in a new partnership between the Downey Unified and CPP’s Women in Science and Engineering (WiSE) program. The agreement will provide opportunities for young…
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Are Oreos a good tool for teaching tectonics? Amie Gallardo (‘24, liberal studies), Sofia Vallejo (‘23, liberal studies), Afiya Kindle (‘23, political science), and Jacquelin Galvez-Coyt (‘23, liberal studies) are developing their skills in lesson design and delivery as they study Earth science concepts and prepare for careers…
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Ceasar Avelar (‘25, sociology) is this year’s Pomona poet laureate. A factory worker, he considers himself a blue-collar poet and is a regular at Café Con Libros, where he founded Obsidian Tongues, an open mic event for poetry and music. Avelar will…
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Priti Saxena, assistant professor of plant science and director of the Center for Turf, Irrigation and Landscape Technology at Cal Poly Pomona, says the center has been testing various technologies that could help businesses that use turf grass in places…
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Mary Anne Alabanza Akers, dean of the College of Environmental Design, discusses her childhood in the Philippines, her journey to attending school and working in the United States, her commitment to academia, and what it means to be an educator. This…
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Three Cal Poly Pomona civil engineering professors are featured for their work researching ways to make the state more water resilient. Ali Sharbat and his students are working on multiple projects including studying dry wells as possible locations for water recapture and storage. Seema…
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The pandemic saw a rise in pet ownership and current veterinarian services can’t keep up. David Driscoll, assistant professor and program director of animal and veterinary science, and two students are interviewed about increased enrollment and incorporating discussions about mental…
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Ayana Jamieson, assistant professor of Ethnic Studies specializing in African American Studies, analyzes the overlap of real-world climate change and its depictions in the fictional narratives of sci-fi author Octavia E. Butler, who is credited as the mother of the…
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Psychologists Jeffery Mio, professor emeritus, and Michi Fu, lecturer, are quoted about the illusory correlation between mental health and violence. “Illusory correlation” occurs when two infrequent events that happen together give the illusion that both are more common than they…
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