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California’s deadliest wildfire is now 100% contained. The Camp Fire in Butte County killed 84 people, destroyed 14,000 homes and burned 153,000 acres. The Woolsey Fire in Los Angeles and Ventura County killed 3 people, destroyed 1,600 structures and charred 96,000 acres, including more than 80% of the Santa Monica Mountains federal parkland. Soils in…

Cal Poly Pomona has earned a three-year National Science Foundation (NSF) Innovation Corps (I-Corps) grant to identify promising research and development projects on campus and help find ways to commercialize them. The university is only one of three CSUs and one of 10 institutions in California to be awarded the grant.   The grant provides…

Cal Poly Pomona is launching a Cyber Security Instructional Research Project (CSIRP) that will promote innovative teaching, research and collaboration.   The project, which integrates existing campus IT services, will be a cross-disciplinary hub that offers collaborative lab and office space, equipment and high-performance computing resources to faculty and students for cyber-security research and teaching.…

Sometimes it’s money for tuition that slows a student’s path to graduation. Sometimes it’s not being able to get that final class needed for a degree. Cal Poly Pomona tackled both obstacles with an innovative Summer Completion Initiative.   The result: an impressive 93% degree completion rate for participants.    What’s Unique: Free Tuition and…

Cal Poly Pomona ranked No. 3 in the nation among the universities that help low income students find financial success after graduation, according to the “2018 Social Mobility Index.” The university is one of only five that has ranked in the  top 20 for five consecutive years.   The “2018 Social Mobility Index” (SMI), developed…

A group of 65 Cal Poly Pomona students accepted the NASA eXploration Systems and Habitation (X-Hab) Academic Innovation Challenge and designed and built a functional, innovative prototype that increases functionality for human space exploration missions.   The Mars habitation module (CPP-HAB), created by students in architecture and civil engineering classes, was inspired by a ‘roly…

Innovation Orchard is a new open-space environment for student startup teams to discuss ideas, collaborate, and reach their entrepreneurial goals. Founded by the Cal Poly Pomona iLab and located at Ganesha High School, the space gives students the resources to implement their ideas.   The 2,100-square-foot Innovation Orchard has 25 pieces of equipment, multiple maker stations,…

A new center at Cal Poly Pomona will offer students an opportunity to take a deeper look at important issues facing Californians.   The California Center of Ethics and Policy (CCEP) was launched with the financial support of a university emeritus faculty member and will be fully operational in spring 2019.   The CCEP held…

A group of ethical hackers from Cal Poly Pomona are finalists in a top cybersecurity penetration testing competition after finishing second to regional host, Stanford University. They now advance to the national round November 2-4.   The Collegiate Penetration Testing Competition invites students to play the role of a technology firm hired to attack a…

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 Nissenson, as well as Juliana Fuqua and Faye Wachs, faculty in the psychology and…