Not all internships are spent sitting behind a desk. 🐝🦗🪰🐛🦋 In Professor Joan Leong’s Entomology Lab, students are gaining hands-on experience through a paid micro-internship with the Rivers and Lands Conservancy. Their work is helping document insect biodiversity while supporting real conservation efforts across SoCal. Along the way, the students are: 🔎 Surveying protected habitats 🔎 Studying biodiversity in native plant gardens 🔎 Identifying and curating insect specimens in the lab 🔎 Gathering data that helps protect endangered species (like the Delhi Sands flower-loving fly) Read more: bit.ly/3UowcSs

5 days, 10 students, and countless ways to #BecomeByDoing. CPP’s "Wxmen in the Wild” program helps students turn their passion for wildlife and environmental science into real-world experience. Over five days, students conducted: 🐦 Bird surveys 🌱 Monitored vegetation 💧 Tested water quality 📷 Set wildlife camera traps 🤝 Connected with professionals across SoCal Led by professor Janel Ortiz, this year’s cohort represents majors across environmental biology, animal science, agricultural science, geology, and biology, and helps these students learn field research techniques that build career readiness. Read more: bit.ly/4g2LgMQ

There’s a good reason real-world clients are interested in the insights of CPP's faculty and students. @cpp_science’s new mass spectrometer gives industry and community partners access to high-end analytical capabilities. Who’s doing the work? CPP chemistry and biochemistry students! They’ll analyze samples, interpret complex data and gain hands-on experience with technology used across pharmaceutical research, environmental monitoring, food safety and more. 💻 💊 🌱 🍎 Acquisitions like the mass spectrometer are made possible by a historic act of generosity from philanthropist MacKenzie Scott and the establishment of our Bright Tomorrow Fund designed to propel institutional priorities and expand opportunity for students. Read more about this new technology why our undergrads are the first in the Western Hemisphere to train on it: bit.ly/4fVJQDT

Jason Bragg was in the break room at the @amazon fulfillment center where he works when he saw Cal Poly Pomona on a table sign for Amazon's Career Choice Program. In 2022, CPP was a new addition to Amazon.com's program that pays their employees' way through college. Fast forward to May 19, when Bragg became a #CPPgrad, proudly leading in the #Classof2024 as the banner holder at commencement for the Department of Geological Sciences. Over the two years of the program, CPP students have a 93% persistence rate. Read more: bit.ly/3x3kUaY

CPP won big at the 2023 RASC-AL competition, @NASA's longest-running higher education competition. 🛰️ 🌌 The competition challenged the 15 finalist university teams to develop new concepts to improve NASA's ability to operate on the moon, Mars and beyond. A group of recent @cppengineering #CPPgrads took home an award for "SciNAP," a design proposal they developed in their senior capstone aerospace design lab. SciNAP would operate as an advanced relay station to support persistent in-space communications. "It would act as a steppingstone for future space endeavors, enabling NASA and its partners to extend humanity’s presence deeper into the solar system and explore new frontiers.” -Faculty advisor and aerospace engineering professor, Navid Nahkjiri Learn more: bit.ly/44xFJGJ #NASARASCAL #RASCAL2023

Cal Poly Pomona has been recognized as one of the "Best Colleges in America" by Money magazine! 🎉 @Money awarded CPP 4.5 out of 5 stars based on quality of education, affordability and student outcomes. In addition, CPP was recognized for its renowned programs in: 🌟 Engineering 🌟 Business 🌟 Hospitality Management 🌟 Agriculture 🌟 Apparel Merchandising and Management Learn more: bit.ly/44ypo4I

#CPPgrad and @calstate Student Trustee Diana is getting ready to walk - and speak - at the @cpp_science commencement. Her two-year term representing 477,000 of her peers across the 23 CSU campuses will continue, as will following her dreams! Diana's post-grad goals include: ✨ Masters of public health at @csuf ✨ Ph.D in organic chemistry ✨ Medical school to become a pediatric neurosurgeon ✨ Running for an elected office ✨ Continuing to make a difference in her community Read more about how this biology grad is dreaming big and paving the way for her family: bit.ly/439nhUi

CPP is recognizing faculty and staff teams that work diligently to make student success a reality! Applications are open May 8 - June 16. @PresColeyCPP will announce the winner at Fall Conference, August 21. Learn more and apply: bit.ly/3LGGfdL

.@ASICPP is offering FREE grad photos for current CPP students on a first-come, first-served basis this Sat, April 8, 9am-5pm in the Japanese Garden. Details: Bring Bronco IDs. 10 min and 3 pose max per grad. Digital downloads ready April 22. More: instagram.com/p/Cqlpz5SrQO6/…