Emma Espinoza is grit personified. She is triumph over tragedy, determination in the face of despair and the victory of belief in the battle with self-doubt. And on May 21, the single mom who first started taking college courses at…
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Rosalia Armas learned the importance of education from her mom but being the first in the family to pursue college meant that she lacked guidance on how to navigate admissions and student resources. During the second week of her first…
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Elgrie Jones Hurd III has taught every grade from kindergarten to 12th, as well as graduate school. He has been a dean of student services at a private college, developed a tutoring program at a chiropractic school and ran an…
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Students everywhere found summer plans disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Jobs and internships evaporated. Research in some labs ground to a halt. But not for everyone: These students from Cal Poly Pomona’s College of Letters, Arts, and Social Sciences are…
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When Brianne Dávila was new to teaching, she got an early education on how to be a professor through a National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity (NCFDD) program boot camp. That 2012 experience helped the associate professor of sociology…
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Laura P. Diaz, a junior studying sociology, will be Cal Poly Pomona’s recipient of a California State University 2019 Trustees’ Award for Outstanding Achievement. She will receive the award during the CSU Board of Trustees meeting on Sept. 24. The…
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They came together to test whether transforming a mechanical engineering course from a more traditional lecture-based class to one that offers students more opportunities to interact would improve learning outcomes. More than three years later, Mechanical Engineering Associate Professor Paul…
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A champion for diversity in science, a recognized expert on mentoring, and an advocate for sustainable engineering solutions comprise the winners of the 2018 Provost’s Awards for Excellence. Alexander Rudolph, professor in the Department of Physics & Astronomy; Felicia Friendly…
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The trio of professors honored with the 2017 Provost’s Awards for Excellence and the professor who received with the George P. Hart Award will be the keynote speakers at the Provost’s Awards Symposium and George P. Hart Presentation. The event…
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Because of a travel ban since the 1960s, Cuba has remained a land of mystery to many Americans. Anecdotes from Cuban defectors and asylum seekers have provided snippets about life on the island, but to most Americans, the communist nation…
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