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Maya Soetoro-Ng, a peace educator and the younger sister of former President Barack Obama, will speak at Cal Poly Pomona on Feb. 23. Photo Credit: Peter Liu, Flickr Creative Commons

Peace Educator Maya Soetoro-Ng to Speak on Campus

Posted February 14, 2017 / Melanie Johnson

Maya Soetoro-Ng, director of the University of Hawaii at Manoa’s Spark M. Matsunaga Institute for Peace & Conflict Resolution and the younger sister of former President Barack Obama, will visit Cal Poly Pomona to discuss her work in the area…

Mary Yu Danico, associate dean of the College of Environmental Design, received a $100,000 gift for the Asian American Transnational Research Initiative.

Initiative Aims to Turn Cal Poly Pomona Into Hub for Asian American Research

Posted July 5, 2016 / Gary Fong

An interdisciplinary research initiative supported by an initial $100,000 gift could make Cal Poly Pomona a global hub for information about Asian American transnational communities. The Asian American Transnational Research Initiative’s (AATRI) overarching mission aims to assess the impact of Asian…