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Dr. Gwen D'Arcangelis earned her Ph.D. in Women's Studies at UCLA. Dr. D’Arcangelis w
as a postdoctoral scholar with the UC Center for Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology (CEIN) working at CNS-UCSB from 2010-2011. Her areas of teaching and research include postcolonial theory, trans-American studies, science and technology studies, gender and ethnic studies. She has published on the recent SARS disease scare, and on new forms of security and surveillance in the biosciences. She is a feminist science studies scholar interested in non-expert engagements with emerging science and technology. In her dissertation she studied the production of cultural discourses about disease during the post-9/11 disease scares and "biosecurity" policies implemented in their wake. She illustrated the centrality of cultural constructions of gendered and racialized disease carriers and biodefense personnel to the persistence of both the disease scares and subsequent disease control policies. Her current research focuses on the gendered and raced cultural productions surrounding the 2009 H1N1 "swine" flu scare. She is also involved in community engagement projects on science policy and environmental justice. More about her current projects can be found at gwenspagesite.
The Ludwick Professorship in Early Childhood Education will be funded through the generosity of Art and Sarah Ludwick, long time friends of Cal Poly Pomona. Sarah's dream of becoming an early childhood educator will now be fulfilled by countless teacher candidates thanks to the commitment to early learning and generous gift of the Ludwicks. We are forever in debt to Art and Sarah! For more information please see the artile in Polycentric.
Time Warner Cable donated $15,000 to Cal Poly Pomona to help promote science, technology, engineering and mathematics education. The full story is available in both PolyCentric and the Inland Valley Daily Bulliten.
Education student, Pamela Pernisco, was selected as one of four Outstanding Student Teachers by the Kappa Delta Gamma Society International (Chi State - Southern California region) and was honored at a dinner on May 19, 2009. |
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Congratulations to the Ethnic and Women’s Studies department for receiving the 2009 Excellence in Community Engagement Award from the Center for Community Service Learning! This award is given to a department that promotes a commitment to service, serves as a role model to others and actively engages its employees in service, service-learning activities or civic engagement opportunities. The Ethnic and Women's' Studies Department requires students to perform 50 hours of community service-learning. In 2006-07, the department reported that 11 faculty members, 30 classes and 710 students participated in community service-learning. Faculty members are very passionate about civic engagement and organize projects such as the Dia de los Muertos event and the Cesar E. Chavez Day of Service-Learning.
The Professional Associated Program partnership with The College of Education and Integrative Studies, TQE, and surrounding schools is featured in the Cal Poly Pomona Panorama magazine this month.
An excerpt:
Credential Students Learn From Education Pros
“Puberty, gangs, peer pressure, teen pregnancy and homelessness are just a few of the issues teachers face in today’s classrooms. For prospective teachers who want to know what the job is like, there’s no better way than to learn from the veterans.”
The Professional Associates Program is funded by a $6.3 million Teacher Quality Enhancement (TQE/Teacher PREP) grant from the U.S. Department of Education that Cal Poly Pomona received in 2004. For more information, visit TQE / Teacher Prep.
View the complete article in the Cal Poly Pomona Panorama magazine (PDF, 2.4 MB)
Four Gender, Ethnicity, and Multicultural Studies (GEMS) students from our Ethnic and Women’s Studies department were selected as “McNair Scholars” for 2008-2009: Raul Bravo, Ashley Faytol, Phi Su, and Rosa Portugal. The program assists undergraduates to prepare for graduate school and advanced degrees.
