Margaret Kerrison, the award-winning immersive story designer and writer behind Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge, Avengers Campus and other notable Disney projects, will share the multi-faceted influences that shaped her 15-year storytelling career. Kerrison will give a public lecture on the…
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Mary Ann Villareal, the inaugural vice president for equity, diversity and inclusion at the University of Utah, offered some sage advice to the Cal Poly Pomona community in its search for a chief diversity officer. Select a candidate who can…
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The 2022 Cal Poly Universities’ “Stargrazers” float, which beckoned Rose Parade viewers to dare to dream, has won the Animation Award. The team was last recognized for animation in 1984. The entry, the 82nd float of 86 in the Jan.…
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Stargrazers, the 2022 Cal Poly Universities’ Rose Float, features three giant cows working on jetpacks to achieve their dreams of jumping over the moon. A jetpack cow soars over a crescent moon trailing a stream of cloudy vapor. For the…
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A referral that seeks to merge the Department of Interdisciplinary General Education (IGE) with the Department of Liberal Studies to strengthen interdisciplinary course offerings is currently being considered by the Academic Senate. If approved, the official merger would take place…
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The university has received a $3 million award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for a program designed to expand research and career-readiness opportunities for undergraduate STEM students. While the NSF STEM grant funds many projects annually, it only gives…
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Hey diddle, diddle, did you ever wonder how the cow jumped over the moon? The Cal Poly Universities 2022 Rose Parade float tells the tale. It features a cow with a jetpack soaring over the moon and high above the…
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Kylene Glisson knows how to wrangle a class of 3- to 5-year-olds. The preschool teacher is an expert at getting them focused when their attention wanes and keeping them entertained. But doing all of that through Zoom, once the campus…
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The Early Exit Program (EEP), one of several measures Cal Poly Pomona is taking to eliminate a $20 million budget gap this fiscal year (FY 20-21), could save the university an estimated $7 million, according to preliminary estimates. The EEP—which…
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The Tournament of Roses will feature a behind-the-scenes look at the Cal Poly Universities’ Rose Float program during a televised New Year’s Day special. The segment will showcase the year-long process of creating award-winning floats each year, including design, construction…
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