Get your student-grown, certified-organic produce at the Cal Poly Pomona Farm Store! The first vegetables that were grown organically at the university’s Spadra Farm — romaine lettuce and kale — were harvested Feb. 21 and are now on sale at…
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A Huntley College of Agriculture staff employee has received a prestigious U.S. Department of Agriculture fellowship. Rosa Lamas Serratos, the college’s Student Success Center coordinator, applied and was selected for the E. Kika De La Garza Education Fellowship. She will…
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Before Shelby Guillen could advocate for more transparent food labels, for state funding for Cal Poly Pomona, and for her fellow students to do their best academic work, she had to advocate for herself. When she finished high school in…
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Apparel merchandising and management and civil engineering professors were awarded a four-year, $241,000 USDA grant that will provide learn-by-doing research experiences for undergraduate students with U.S. sheep farms and wool use. Sheep farmers who want to turn their wool into…
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Agriculture students Coral Story and Amber Yoder were the first Cal Poly Pomona students to participate in a new internship program with the U.S. Department of Agriculture. “We were the pilot students so that was a little nerve racking,” said…
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture and Cal Poly Pomona have signed an agreement to create a joint Student Enrichment Program that will provide students with internships, information on careers within the USDA Agricultural Marketing Services (AMS) division and improved access…
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Nine Cal Poly Pomona students got a glimpse of agriculture’s high-tech future during a three-day trip through Northern California and the Salinas Valley in mid-June. The students were part of a cohort in a collaborative project known as the Careers…
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James Becerra, lecturer with the landscape architecture department, has received a United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Science fellowship. The E. Kika De La Garza fellowship program gives faculty from Hispanic-Serving Institutions the opportunity to learn about federal agencies that…
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Students in the College of Agriculture will have access to a leadership program that will prepare them for their future careers, thanks to a grant of nearly $290,000 from the Department of Agriculture’s Hispanic-Serving Institution National Program. The College of…
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David Still, plant science professor, has received a United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Science fellowship. The E. Kika De La Garza fellowship program gives faculty from Hispanic-Serving Institutions the opportunity to learn about federal agencies that support research and…
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