The ISLA department is looking to hire a student assistant for a few hours to help develop our newsletters and web pages.  If you have experience working with code and writing HTML and can prove your experience, please email your resume, and cover letter to: IS@calpoly titled: HTML Writer.  For more information, please reach out to Nicole at nriver10@calpoly.edu

Students can now create a personalized slide for the virtual ceremony with their preferred name, celebratory headshot, and custom message for the virtual ceremony. We have a lot of early engagement but would love to see as many students as possible creating slides!  See below for more information.

 

In preparation for Virtual Spring Commencement 2021, all graduates are invited to create a personalized slide to be showcased in the academic college ceremonies. Your personalized slide will feature your name (which will be read aloud), a celebratory headshot, a personal message, and will list your college, major, degree and honors (if applicable).

 

In addition to being showcased in your college ceremony, each personalized slide will be featured on the Commencement website and emailed to you directly so that it can be downloaded and shared with family and friends.

 

Follow these quick steps to create your personalized graduate slide today:

 

 

 

April 27 @ 6pm: Screening and discussion of the film Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People (co-sponsored by the Cal Poly Multicultural Center and Theatre and Dance Department, and Cultural Creations). Register here.

You are invited to attend Cal Poly Undergraduate Research Week (taking place virtually) - starting on M April 19th. This is part of a national celebration of undergraduate research organized each year by the Council on Undergraduate Research.

 

Cal Poly Undergraduate Research Week events are open to all members of the Cal Poly community and all disciplines. They are sponsored by the Office of Student Research in coordination with the BEACoN Mentors Program, the College of Engineering, the College of Liberal Arts, the Dream Center, the CSU-LSAMP Program, and the Multicultural Engineering Program. See details below.

 

Questions may be directed to lsamp@calpoly.edu.

Download the pdf here!

This year’s theme will be “Connected in our Collective Power.” Throughout the month, topics will be centered on raising marginalized voices, identifying paths to healing, and developing strategies for collective care.

 

Here are some of our highlighted events for the month:

 

Other ways you can get involved and show your support:

 

 

Visit Safer’s website for a full list of events, flyers and graphics to download, and registration information. Thank you for being our amazing campus partners, and for continuing to engage with our programming and conversations about creating a campus free from gender- and power- based violence. We're so excited to see you (virtually) at some, or all, of our events for the month! 
 

Dr. Anthony Hatch is a critical sociologist who studies the intersections of science, technology, and medicine with special emphases on racial, gender, and socioeconomic inequality. His teaching and published research interrogate sociological questions about science and technology as economic and political forces in society. His areas of intellectual specialization are science and technology studies, medical sociology, critical social theories, and political sociology. He is the author of Silent Cells: The Secret Drugging of Captive America (Minnesota, 2019) and Blood Sugar: Racial Pharmacology and Food Justice in Black America (Minnesota, 2016). In Spring 2021, he started Black Box Labs, an undergraduate research and training laboratory that offers students training in qualitative research methods aligned with science and technology studies and the opportunity to collaborate with faculty on critical social research.

 

This event is sponsored by Tech Workforce Strategic Research Initiative, Center for Expressive Technologies, and The Technically Human Podcast. Hosted by the Social Sciences Studies Department. This event is free and open to the public.

 

 

Webinar ID: 822 4395 5872

Passcode: 583721

SLO Behavioral Health Service is offering FREE Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) trainings in May during Mental Health Awareness Month. The registration date for the first set of trainings says today- but we have some spaces available and can accommodate people who register by the end of this week until the training is full.

 

The club represents the College of Liberal Arts in public relations events such as Open House, Orientation, and almost all CLA related events. We engage and hold information sessions for prospective students and connect students with students in majors / opportunities they may be interested in. It is a great opportunity to develop public speaking and leadership skills and be involved in CLA on a deeper level.

 

 

Here is the link to our application: https://forms.gle/3FHdiBQwGdAG2Nyn9

The WGS Department is pleased to announce that we are now soliciting applications for WGS Scholarships for the 2021-22 academic year. Our departmental deadline for students to apply via the campus-wide online application is April 30; please see the attached flyer for more information.

 

Corona Virus Updates:
The safety, health, and wellbeing of all campus community members and visitors is a primary commitment for Cal Poly. For the latest updates and information regarding coronavirus and our campus preparedness, please visit
https://chw.calpoly.edu/coronavirus.  

The Basic Needs Task Force: Cal Poly wants every student to have access to food and housing in order to focus on their education. There are many resources to help students meet their basic needs.  To learn about the food pantry, meal vouchers, emergency grants and more visit here.

To learn more about other Resources, like Health & Counseling or Disability, you can visit the Office of Student Rights and Responsibilities.

If you have any further questions:

 

STS Minors:
sts@calpoly.edu
805-756-2740 
Dr. Kirby's Office Hours: 
2-4 PM Wednesdays and by appointment.
dakirby@calpoly.edu