A new study published on May 10 in the journal Royal Society Open Science has shown that in the Gila monster, a large venomous lizard, encounters between females are far more intense and violent than interactions between males. When male…
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Cal Poly Pomona graduate students Rachel Bockrath and Noah Szceszinski, who are pursuing master’s degrees in biology, have been awarded a $12,500 fellowship each to support their research of the Santa Clara River, called Utom, or Phantom River, by the…
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A pilot study to help close the equity gap and improve the graduation rates of underrepresented minority students in the apparel merchandising and management (AMM) program will receive a $48,000 grant from the CSU. The project, titled “Developing Culturally Relevant…
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Up and down the California coast, purple sea urchins have devastated kelp forests. In Southern California, hundreds of acres of the underwater giant kelp forests, Macrocystis pyrifera, have been devoured, leaving bare rock coastal terrain devoid of habitat for lobsters…
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Cal Poly Pomona is hosting the 35th annual California State University Research Competition on April 30 and May 1, a CSU-wide virtual event that honors and spotlights the innovative creations undergraduate and graduate students across various campuses have curated. During…
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There are 27 oil platforms located off the coast of California nearing the end of their useful life in oil and gas production. As multiple government agencies and stakeholders work to decide their fate, Biological Sciences Associate Professor Jeremy Claisse…
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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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Spacecraft assembly facilities harbor a low but persistent amount of biological contamination despite the use of clean rooms. Rakesh Mogul, a Cal Poly Pomona professor of biological chemistry, was the lead author of an article in the journal Astrobiology that…
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Three Cal Poly Pomona student research teams each earned second place in their subject category at the CSU system- wide Student Research Competition in Sacramento on May 4 to 5. Biological and Agricultural Sciences Janam Dave took second place in…
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Ángel A. Valdés, professor of biological sciences, is part of a team that discovered three new species of sea slugs. They named one of the new species Placida barackobamai, to recognize President Barack Obama’s efforts to reduce carbon emissions globally…
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