Office of Academic Innovation

This is your reminder that we have a great common read book this year! The Moth is full of stories of defining the impossible. Check out the common read website to learn about all the activities related to the book and listen to FREE audio recordings! Visit: bit.ly/CommonRead20

It's not too late to get involved with CPP's Common Read! The Moth Presents: Occasional Magic is this year's Common Read book. Inside you'll discover true 'moth...' stories about finding strength to face the impossible. There are a couple of ways to get involved: 1 Listen to the stories in the book! Visit https://www.cpp.edu/studentsucce//common-read-events.shtml for a curated list of links to the Moth website. 2 Submit to our essay contest! Write your own Moth story, a true personal story about finding the courage to face the impossible and make your world better. Find the prompt and submit by November 6 at https://www.cpp.edu/studentsucce//common-read-events.shtml. 3 Participate in the Learn Through Discovery Challenge with CPP A.I.! With a team, identify a social justice issue from the book and develop a creative and innovative solution that addresses the issue that can be implemented or launched. Find the prompt and submit by November 6 at https://www.cpp.edu/studentsucce//common-read-events.shtml. 4 Share your Moth story! The current social context of a global pandemic and the continued fight against racial injustices challenges us to recognize the "Occasional Magic" of this moment. Think about the most important and impactful moments during your time at CPP, and tell your Moth story using the free platform Microsoft Sway. Swipe through for more details and check https://www.cpp.edu/studentsucce//common-read-events.shtml to get started. DM us if you have any questions! #CalPolyPomona

Introducing Season 2 of our LTD podcast "Uncharted Horizons!" This season will explore innovation across the Cal Poly Pomona, featuring a diverse set of guests from across campus. Episode 1 features Dr. Kate Ozment, Assistant Professor in the English and Modern Languages Department in the Cal Poly Pomona-College of Letters, Arts, and Social Sciences. Dr. Ozment works on women’s writing and text technologies, focusing on how re-creating historical printing practices helps us learn more about the interplay of manuscript, print, and digital technologies in our modern world. Her research is currently investigating how women book collectors have shaped the study of material artifacts in the United States in the mid-twentieth century. Listen now: bit.ly/UnchartedHorizons2

Do you want the Office of Undergraduate Research and/or Learn Through Discovery teams to present a workshop about their offices and programs to your club, class..., or organization? Well you’re in luck! The OUR and LTD Hatchery teams are now offering customized workshops to help inform Cal Poly Pomona students about various ways to get involved with research and related programs, like the Hatchery! Sign up two weeks in advance: bit.ly/LTDandOUR

The National Science Foundation (NSF) I-Corps program just completed the Fall 2020 short course on Friday, 10/9 and 10/23. The 2-day course covered how to take an idea, product, technology, and/or research and translate it into the marketplace. 6 teams for a total of 13 participants of faculty and students made up Cohort 5, led by an 8 person teaching team. Project Spotlight: Orangeosity Orange pomace (byproduct of orange juice production, typically thrown away or used in... livestock feed) is full of antioxidants, but it is too bitter for people to incorporate into their diets. Orangeosity plans to develop ways to reduce the bitterness of orange pomace and incorporate it into foods, reducing waste along the way. Highlight 1 Isabel Gutierrez from Cohort 2 spoke about her company, Vistendo, and offered advice to Cohort 5. She said it has been a difficultyet very rewardingexperience to combine her interests in engineering and medicine to create an app that can help detect athletes’ injuries on the field. https://vistendo.com Highlight 2 Returning team HyStack also offered advice and words of encouragement. They said that it took them a couple of tries for them to understand the I-Corps lessons, so they encouraged this current cohort not to give up hope if they didn’t yet understand everything. Now that the lessons have clicked for them, they feel confident in their technology and the improvements they made along the way. #NSFStories We hope you all will join Cohort 6 this upcoming Spring 2021. Details coming soon. Learn more about I-Corps in the meantime: www.cpp.edu/i-corps

BIG NEWS: THE POLY PANTRY IS BACK! Introducing... Poly Pantry 2 Go, an outdoor, no-contact, appointment-based food distribution service for CPP students ...& families. Registration appointments will open on 10/28, and food distribution will begin on 11/4. We’re so excited to be serving our Broncos again! For more information, visit bit.ly/polypantry See more

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Hey Broncos, looking for a virtual research conference to attend? Save the date for the National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR), happening virtua...lly April 12-14, 2021. Submit your abstracts by November 1, 2020 to be eligible for the early-decision registration period in December (otherwise, abstracts are due December 1, 2020 for the January-March, 2021 registration period). Get more info about NCUR: bit.ly/NCUR2021 You can get help paying for NCUR registration fees and other virtual conferences by applying to the OUR's Conference Presentation Award, which has monthly deadlines. Get more info about the Conference Presentation Award: bit.ly/conf-award Plus, we'd love to hear from you about any virtual conferences you plan to attend in 2020/2021! We want to make sure other research students know about all the opportunities available to them, even during these uncertain times. If you have any questions about NCUR or the Conference Presentation Award, email the OUR team: [email protected].

Happy Friday Broncos! We have some very exciting news to share with you all: the BRAND NEW OUR website is live! The updated website was crafted by the OUR staff... with student-usability in mind, so we hope that you all enjoy the new look and structure! We’d like to invite you all to participate in a scavenger hunt and be entered in a raffle to win a prize! As part of the scavenger hunt you will learn more about research opportunities and will provide important feedback. Participate by Friday, November 13th Start here: Bit.ly/our-scavenger-hunt20

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Last call! Survey closes this Friday, 10/23.

Congrats again Dr. Bhavsar on your retirement!

Hey Broncos, today is the FINAL DAY to register to vote in California! Register easily online--it only takes a few minutes. https://registertovote.ca.gov ... #VoteSafeCA

Happy National Transfer Student Week!!