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Giving Tuesday at Palomar College Will Raise Two for One This Year

November 14, 2017

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The spirit of Thanksgiving will be extended in more ways than one at Palomar College this season. Every gift dollar donated to the Palomar College Foundation on Giving Tuesday, November 28 will be doubled this year, thanks to a generous College supporter. “We are thrilled and appreciative that each dollar raised this year will be…
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On eve of Veterans Day, Palomar College honors its own

November 11, 2017

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With the largest veteran population of any community college or university in California, Palomar furthers a tradition of serving the military that goes back to the college’s founding in 1946. SAN MARCOS — On a picture-perfect afternoon, students gathered on balconies and on the edges of the quad as the bell in the clock tower…
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Palomar hosts ‘Exploring Darwin’ lectures

November 10, 2017

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As series founder and coordinator Phil de Barros prepares to retire in December, hundreds of students attend talks on landmark theory. SAN MARCOS — On Tuesday afternoon, as a fellow professor discussed population growth on stage inside the Howard Brubeck Theatre, Phil de Barros sat nearby, listening intently and asking questions. It was de Barros’…
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Inside the Palomar College food pantry

November 7, 2017

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The Student Affairs team at Palomar tackles food insecurity and plans 2018 expansion of Anita and Stan Maag Food & Nutrition Center. SAN MARCOS — By noon on Thursday, Nov. 2, at least a hundred students had filed through a room filled with free food, picking up produce, pastries and bags of bagels on their…
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Lecture series explores wide range of current events

October 27, 2017

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Political Economy Days draws hundreds of students for lectures ranging from climate change to labor movements to white privilege. SAN MARCOS — In a darkened theater at Palomar College on Wednesday afternoon, 200 people gathered for a one-man show about an influential labor organizer in mid-20th-century San Francisco. The following day in a packed lecture…
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Palomar professor’s work featured in photography show

October 24, 2017

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Amy Caterina went all the way to Iceland to bring home a pair of Polaroids on display Oct. 27-29 in Medium Festival of Photography’s “Size Matters” exhibition. SAN MARCOS — When the photographic elite of San Diego descend on Bankers Hill for the Medium Festival of Photography on Oct. 28, two of the images on…
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Looking north: Palomar’s Fallbrook site under way

October 20, 2017

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Summer 2018 opening planned for North Education Center near Interstate 15 and Highway 76. FALLBROOK — As a fleet of heavy machinery began moving the first of more than 750,000 cubic yards of earth in preparation for a new Palomar College location this summer, commuters had a front-row seat, following the progress from Interstate 15…
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Meet Pepper, the face of A.I. at Palomar

October 12, 2017

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Campus debut for robot that can answer questions, interact with students—the first of its kind on a U.S. college campus. SAN MARCOS — On a sunny morning at Palomar College, a four-foot-tall robot named Pepper took its first turns as the mascot and team captain of Palomar’s Artificial Intelligence Project. In its signature high-pitched voice,…
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