http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/ The Latest Headlines from Cal Poly - San Luis Obispo en-us http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/images/news_symbol.gif http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/ http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2012/January/startup.html More than 80 participants on 12 teams presented their prototypes at San Luis Obispo’s first Startup Weekend, which ended Sunday night, Jan. 22. The sold-out, three-day event brought community members and Cal Poly students together in a dynamic environment to build their ideas in just 54 hours. http://calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2012/January/king.html Cal Poly students will help collect food for the less fortunate, feed the homeless and hold an on-campus celebration in coming days to honor the life and work of Martin Luther King, Jr. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2012/January/american.html Cal Poly’s School of Education is sponsoring a free screening of “American Teacher” followed by a panel discussion with local education leaders. The event begins at 6:30 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 23, at the Fremont Theater in San Luis Obispo. “American Teacher” is a new documentary by Oscar-winning filmmaker Vanessa Roth, narrated by actor and Oscar-winning screenwriter Matt Damon. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2011/December/aerial.html Cal Poly students in San Luis Obispo and their peers at California State Polytechnic University in Pomona are joining forces on a project to advance aerial robotics technology and sharpen teamwork skills required in the professional world. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2011/December/ncwit.html The Cal Poly Computer Science Department and the National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) will recognize 10 high school female students for their accomplishments and aspirations in computing and technology. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2011/November/fulbright.html The Institute of International Education and the Fulbright Program have named Cal Poly as one of this year’s Fulbright Scholarship Top Producer of U.S. Fulbright Scholars and acknowledged the excellent work of Raymond Zeuschner, interim director of International Education and Programs. http://calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2011/November/designintelligence.html Cal Poly continues to lead the nation’s architecture and design programs in an annual survey by the monthly journal DesignIntelligence. http://calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2011/November/grant.html Cal Poly’s Center for Coastal Marine Sciences won a scientific competition for a $720,000 state grant to help improve how California manages its near-shore fishing grounds. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2011/October/geology.html Cal Poly Geology Professor Scott Johnston and student Kenjo Agustsson spent the summer of 2009 on the chilly slopes of Greenland, delving into the roots of ancient mountains to study the history and makeup of the Earth’s crust. In October, they presented their research findings at the 2011 Meeting of the Geological Society of America. http://calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2011/October/engineers.html Cal Poly Society of Women Engineers (SWE) again set the gold standard for university SWE chapters across the nation at WE11, the society’s Annual Conference held Oct. 13-15 in Chicago. Cal Poly brought home the Gold Award as the nation’s top Outstanding Collegiate Section, and repeated history with two teams that tied for first in the Team Tech competition. http://calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2011/October/meat.html Cal Poly’s College of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Sciences is opening the doors of the new J and G Lau Meat Processing Center and teaching facility. The hands-on learning facility will be open for public tours from 2-5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 22. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2011/September/news.html For the 19th straight year, Cal Poly has been rated the best public-master’s university in the West in U.S. News & World Report’s 2012 America’s Best Colleges guidebook. http://calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2011/September/forbes.html For the fourth year in a row, Cal Poly ranks on the Forbes magazine list of the country’s best colleges and universities Cal Poly ranks No. 9 among California’s public universities and, just as last year, is the top-ranked California State University campus on the list. http://president.calpoly.edu/fallconference/ Cal Poly's Fall Conference is under way. The annual, week-long event provides faculty with orientation programs, technology updates, campus updates and networking opportunities. Cal Poly President Jeffrey D. Armstrong will give the keynote address Tuesday, Sept. 13 at 9 a.m. The address will be streamed live. http://calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2011/September/downtown.html About 4,000 new Cal Poly students and their Week of Welcome (WOW) leaders will visit downtown San Luis Obispo on Friday, Sept. 16 for SLO Bound, an annual WOW event that introduces incoming students to their new community. http://calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2011/September/competition.html Cal Poly Engineering won first place in the Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) System Selection category of the 2011 student design competition held by the American Society of Heating Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE). http://calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2011/August/gearhart.html Well-known and popular KSBY-TV morning news anchor Richard Gearhart is joining Cal Poly’s Journalism Department as an associate professor beginning in September. http://calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2011/August/underwater.html Tracking the movements of sharks may become a bit easier soon thanks to a project involving students and faculty from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and CSU Long Beach. http://calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2011/August/journalism.html Cal Poly’s Journalism Department recently hosted the California Scholastic Press Association (CSPA) journalism workshop for high school students for the 60th consecutive year. http://calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2011/August/challenge.html Cal Poly is one of 250 colleges and universities nationwide that will participate in President Barack Obama's Interfaith and Community Service Campus Challenge, which calls on institutions of higher education to commit to advancing interfaith and community service initiatives over the course of the 2011-12 academic year. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2011/August/revoke.html Cal Poly has revoked its recognition of the California Tau chapter of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity and requested that the national chapter of the organization dissolve the local chapter, the university announced today. http://calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2011/August/China.html Students and faculty from the Orfalea College of Business MBA program recently returned from a 14-day Learn by Doing tour of China that included stops in the cities of Shenzhen, Shanghai and Beijing. http://calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2011/July/faculty.html Cal Poly’s Graphic Communication Department will begin the academic year in September with new faculty and staff equipped to address current and future industry issues, according to Department Head Harvey Levenson. http://calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2011/July/scientists.html Thanks to an $848,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health, 14 students from Allan Hancock College in Santa Maria are spending their summer as paid research interns at Cal Poly. http://calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2011/July/bookbuilders.html Three Cal Poly Graphic Communication students were awarded scholarships at the 2011 Bookbuilders West Scholarship Competition. Christina Dillon, Daniel Triassi and Jeannie Nguyen each won $500 for their book design projects. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2011/June/larson_dean.html Debra Larson, a civil engineering professor and Academic Affairs administrator with Northern Arizona University, has been named the new dean of Cal Poly Engineering, university President Jeffrey D. Armstrong announced today. http://calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2011/June/great-grads-2011.html Cal Poly's Class of 2011 includes more than 4,000 graduates who will participate in commencement ceremonies in the Spanos Stadium on Saturday, June 11, at 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. http://calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2011/May/Ind-Eng-Student-Best-in-West.html Robby Nielsen, student technician for Cal Poly’s Student Project Lab and Robby NielsenMustang ’60 machine shop, is best in the West among state and regional student employees. http://calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2011/May/fellowship.html Kevin Yamauchi, a master’s candidate in the biomechanics program in Cal Poly’s College of Engineering, has been awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship worth $90,000 over three years. http://calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2011/May/CSU-Awards.html Three Cal Poly projects were among the statewide winners recently at the 25th Annual California State University student research competition. The student projects ranged from an exploration of the roots of the Wright Brothers’ inventiveness, to a mathematical solution for non-invasive detection of melanoma, and a non-toxic coating to prevent corrosion in metal structures. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2011/May/Fulbright.html Cal Poly Marine Biology Professor Mark Moline has been named the 2011 Fulbright Arctic Chair, one of the most prestigious awards in the international Fulbright Scholars program. This will be the sixth Arctic research trip for the professor. http://www.cosam.calpoly.edu/news/2011/Jackson.html/ Cal Poly's STRIDE Center will host a nationally-known physician and a panel of local government and health speakers May 18 to discuss environmental factors behind America's obesity epidemic and community changes needed to combat it. http://www.cosam.calpoly.edu/news/2011/Bergen.html Cal Poly Biology Teacher in Residence and alumna Anne Marie Bergen will be flying to Washington D.C. in May to receive the prestigious Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching. http://www.cosam.calpoly.edu/news/2011/star.html Come learn about the world of astronomy and stargaze with University of Riverside astronomy professor and author Tyler Nordgren and the Cal Poly Astronomy Club May 7 on campus. http://calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2011/May/Harman.html Sidney Harman, founder of Harman International Industries, Inc., publisher of Newsweek magazine and friend of Cal Poly, died of Tuesday, April 12, of complications from acute myeloid leukemia. He was 92. http://calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2011/April/pier.html The Cal Poly Pier in Avila Beach will be open to the public from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, April 23. The event is free, and the community is invited to come learn more about the marine research there. http://calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2011/April/fair.html A magic show, balloon animal creations and face painting are only a few of the exciting activities taking place during Cal Poly’s 18th annual Open House. http://calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2011/March/bloomberg.html For the third consecutive year, Cal Poly’s Orfalea College of Business has been named to Bloomberg Business Week magazine’s list of the nation’s top undergraduate business colleges. http://calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2011/March/kennedy.html Cal Poly’s Robert E. Kennedy Library will mark its 30th anniversary with a rededication ceremony and reception beginning at 2 p.m. April 8. http://calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2011/March/rising.html Cal Poly’s College of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Sciences has a star in its midst. Adam Jarman was named "Rising Star of 2011" by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) District VII conference committee in Los Angeles on March 4. http://calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2011/March/marine.html Researchers from Cal Poly’s Center for Coastal Marine Science will spend most of March in the Western Equatorial Pacific studying ocean currents and how they interact with coral reef islands as part of a $370,000 grant from the Office of Naval Research. http://calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2011/February/honorary.html The national honorary band fraternity Kappa Kappa Psi has designated Cal Poly’s chapter as a 2009-11 Kappa Kappa Psi Leadership Award recipient. http://calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2011/February/athletics.html Cal Poly today announced the three finalists for the university’s Athletics Director position and the schedule of open community forums for each candidate. http://calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2011/February/dow.html In its continued effort to educate the best and brightest to enter the graphic communication industry and lead it in the future, Cal Poly’s Graphic Communication Department has unveiled the Dow Jones and Company Web Printing Laboratory. http://calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2011/February/awareness.html Kevin Hines, who survived a suicide attempt in which he jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge, will speak Feb. 26 at Cal Poly as part of a student-coordinated event aimed at raising awareness about depression, self-harm and suicide prevention. http://calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2011/February/ocean.html Cal Poly students will host an “Explore the Oceans Day” from 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 12, at the Avila Beach Sea Life Center. http://calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2011/February/sustainability.html Cal Poly’s Orfalea College of Business will host University of Massachusetts professor Adam Sulkowski, who will discuss sustainability at the Spanos Theatre on Wednesday, Feb. 16 from 2:15 to 3:15 p.m. http://calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2011/January/bioneers.html The Central Coast Bioneers nonprofit group is hosting a benefit dinner Feb. 13 to support Cal Poly’s Guateca Project, which aims to bring education and sustainable technology and development to the mountain village of San Pablo in Guatemala. http://calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2011/January/neca.html The Cal Poly student chapter of the National Electrical Contractors Association placed first in the poster competition portion of the NECA Green Energy Challenge, which took place in October. http://calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2011/January/haiti.html Cal Poly’s College of Architecture and Environmental Design will join several national organizations to help the State University of Haiti construct a new Haiti Built Environment Resource Center. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2011/January/rose-float.html The Cal Poly Rose Float won the Rose Parade Viewers' Choice Award for 2011. It's the third year in a row the float has taken home the trophy. The float also won the Tournament of Roses Fantasy Trophy for most outstanding display of fantasy and imagination. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/ Cal Poly President Emeritus Robert E. Kennedy, who led the university for more than 12 years and who remained engaged with Cal Poly for decades after his retirement, has died. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2010/December/vote.html The Cal Poly Rose Float has won the Viewer's Choice Award in the annual Tournament of Roses Parade for the past two years straight. Will the float keep the title in 2011? Only with your help. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2010/December/Kennedy.html Cal Poly President Emeritus Robert E. Kennedy, who joined the faculty in 1940 and led the university as president for more than 12 years of major growth, has died. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2010/December/thailand.html Cal Poly Journalism Professor Brady Teufel is in the village of Huai Nam Khun, Thailand, chronicling students working with Engineers Without Borders there. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2010/December/engineering.html Aerospace engineering professor Kira Abercromby and electrical engineering professor Lynn Slivovsky have received two-year, $40,000 Lockheed Martin Endowed Professorship awards. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2010/December/armstrong_president.html The California State University Board of Trustees has named Jeffrey D. Armstrong, dean of the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources and professor of Animal Science at Michigan State University, as president of Cal Poly. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2010/December/engineers.html Cal Poly's Society of Women Engineers came home from nationals with first-place awards in the Team Tech design contest and two other competitions. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2010/December/cheese.html The historic Cal Poly Creamery is offering gift packs of its student-made cheeses for the holidays. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2010/December/hockey.html Cal Poly's club sports Women's Field Hockey Team took a national title amassed a 15-0 regular-season record and then hosted the Western Collegiate Field Hockey Conference, beating UCSB and other rivals at the tournament. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2010/December/finalists.html CSU Trustees will meet Dec. 13 to select Cal Poly's next president. Find out how to give feedback on the finalists. http://calpolynews.calpoly.edu/magazine/Winter-10/index.html The Winter 2010 edition of Cal Poly Magazine is now online with multimedia extras. Read it today. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2010/November/candidates_announced.html The three finalists for the Cal Poly president's seat are Robert E. Palazzo, Thomas C. Skalak and Jeffrey D. Armstrong. They will visit campus Nov. 30-Dec. 2; read on for details. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2010/November/salaries.html Cal Poly graduates and alumni top all other UC and CSU campuses and plenty of private universities when it comes to their median starting career salaries. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2010/November/holiday.html Take It SLO, Cal Poly's a cappella ensemble, will present its second annual Holiday Concert Sunday, Dec. 5. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2010/November/sustainability.html Cal Poly earned a B-plus for its sustainability efforts from the North American organization GreenReportCard.org. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2010/November/hispanic.html A new "Dual Sports" robot earned SHPE members the top award in a national competition. The team took two more awards before coming home. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2010/November/engineers.html Cleaning up water for Thai villages earned Cal Poly's chapter of Engineers Without Borders a top award. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2010/November/marine.html Cal Poly Biological Sciences Professor Mark Moline was recently awarded two grants from the National Science Foundation. He'll use the grants and his robot submarines to study Antarctic penguin feeding grounds and California marine currents. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2010/November/pesticide.html Cal Poly and California Certified Organic Farmers will host the ninth annual Sustainable Pest Management Conference in San Luis Obispo Dec. 3 and 4. http://www.flickr.com/photos/30208331@N03/sets/72157625300377624/show/ Mariachi costumes. Babies in Mustang Gear. Student football fans in body paint and fuzzy yellow wigs. A solemn moment of silence for the victims of a plane crash that brought down the Mustang Football Team in 1960. See it all and more in a photo slideshow. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2010/November/homecoming.html Cal Poly's Homecoming 2010 celebration was full of honors, victories and the return of student traditions. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2010/October/tech-park.html The new Cal Poly Technology Park is open and aiming to be the place where business, Cal Poly research and Cal Poly ideas blend and grow on campus. http://calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2010/October/Poster.html A Cal Poly Graphic Communication senior took first place in the Graphic Arts Education and Research Foundation 2010 Student Design Competition. http://www.homecoming.calpoly.edu/ There are still a few tickets available for the annual Tailgate Barbecue and Wine Tasting and the big game Saturday (Oct. 30). Get them before they sell out this week. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2010/October/center.html The Cal Poly Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship celebrated its official opening with a forum showcasing student ideas and projects. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2010/October/sst_dedication.html The Simpson Strong-Tie Materials Demonstration Lab is getting ready for classes. The privately funded laboratory is the final element of a multi-year building project for the College of Architecture and Environmental Design. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2010/October/rose-float.html The Cal Poly Rose Float is heading south Friday, Oct. 22, in preparation for the 2011 Tournament of Roses Parade, and Rose Float Teams on two campuses are asking for help securing enough yellow roses to decorate a 10-foot planet. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2010/October/sst_dedication.html Cal Poly's new Simpson Strong-Tie Materials Demonstration Lab will be dedicated at a special ceremony on Friday, Oct. 22 at 4:30 p.m. The privately funded laboratory will serve all five departments of Cal Poly's College of Architecture and Environmental Design. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2010/October/Thiel.html Cal Poly will host a candlelight vigil memorial service for student Andrew Thiel, who died Oct. 15 in an airplane accident in Mexico while volunteering on a medical mission. The service is set for Monday, Oct. 25, at 5 p.m. in the University Union plaza. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/eventsindex.html Find out what the Founding Fathers really thought about separation of church and state during a free lecture Tuesday afternoon by a visiting Notre Dame professor, all in honor of Constitution Day. http://calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2010/October/Kaffir.html South African writer Mark Mathabane will speak Oct. 21 at Cal Poly about his 1986 autobiography “Kaffir Boy,” a frequently banned book. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2010/October/mcchrystal.html Retired Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal, a pivotal leader in U.S. military operations in Afghanistan from 2002 to 2009, will speak at Cal Poly Dec. 2 as part of Cal Poly Arts' lecture series. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/update/2010/October.html Cal Poly graduation rates are soaring, UGS makes for a'Graphic' video, flying frog dancers are leaping onto campus soon -- it's all in the October Cal Poly Update e-newsletter. Online now and online only. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2010/October/wsj.html Cal Poly is among the top universities in the nation at producing the best graduates to hire in business and engineering, according to recruiters polled by the Wall Street Journal as part of a special report. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2010/October/GRC.html After completing an extensive self-study and hosting a site visit by a three-member team of industry and education experts, the Graphic Communication Department at Cal Poly has received national re-accreditation through 2016. http://calpolynews.calpoly.edu/magazine/Fall-2010/index.html The Fall 2010 edition of Cal Poly Magazine is now online - and online only. Read it and share the link with a friend. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2010/September/NASA.html More out-of-this-world learn by doing experience is heading for Cal Poly students. NASA has signed a $5 million contract designating Cal Poly as the provider for a broad range mini-satellite services for NASA's CubeSat program. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/ Fresh this month at the Cal Poly Orchards: pears and apples. Taste the difference and pick your own Wednesday afternoons and Saturday mornings. Take the Highland Drive entrance to campus and watch for signs. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2010/September/Bonderson.html 1975 Electrical Engineering grad Paul Bonderson Jr. has already donated $8 million to create the Bonderson Projects Center for students. Now he's donated another $550,000 to help pay for student projects, center technicians, student and faculty travel to competitions and more. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2010/September/Aero.html For the eighth time in the past nine years, Cal Poly aerospace seniors soared above the competitors at the national Undergraduate Team Aircraft Design competition. http://www.gopoly.com/ Alison Cone, Cal Poly’s director of athletics since 2004, announced she will retire in December after 16 years at Cal Poly. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2010/September/Aero.html For the eighth time in the past nine years, Cal Poly aerospace seniors soared above the competitors at the national Undergraduate Team Aircraft Design competition. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/ Fresh this month at the Cal Poly U-Pick Orchards: pears and apples. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2010/September/arch-fulbright.html Architecture Professor Thomas Reich has been selected as a Fulbright Scholar and will teach and research in Italy this year. The Fulbright Program is an international educational exchange activity established in 1946, sponsored by the U.S. State Department's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/update/2010/September.html Find out about Cal Poly's bumper crop of record-setting students and more in the September edition of Cal Poly Update, the university e-newsletter for alumni, parents, and friends. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2010/August/savor.html Cal Poly students, faculty and food will be in the spotlight at the first annual "Sunset-Savor the Central Coast" gourmet festival Sept. 30 through Oct. 3. http://www.gopoly.com/ Cal Poly's football team is heading to the Big Sky Conference. The Mustangs, along with UC Davis, will begin competition in the expanded NCAA Football Championship Subdivision conference, likely beginning with the 2012 season. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2010/August/Recruit.html Aviation Week and Space Technology has named Cal Poly as the best university in the nation to find job-ready employees. Cal Poly took the No. 1 spot, besting the Georgia Institute of Technology, Pennsylvania State University, Virginia Tech and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (tied), and Purdue University. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2010/August/Schwartz.html A Cal Poly professor and grad student part of a team organizing a historic civil rights photography collection for the Smithsonian Institution. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2010/August/2010-us-news.html For the 18th year in a row, Cal Poly has been rated the best public-master's university in the West by U.S. News and World Report, in its 2011 America's Best Colleges guidebook. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2010/August/Forbes.html Forbes Magazine ranks Cal Poly in the top third of universities in the nation on its 2010 list of "America's Best Colleges." http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2010/August/ranch-horse.html Cal Poly students will hold the annual Performance and Ranch Horse Sale on Saturday, Aug. 28. Fifteen Cal Poly students have spent several months training 22 young Quarter Horses and Appaloosas to get them ready for the sale. http://www.calpoly.edu/ Cal Poly has a new president for the first time in 30 Years - Robert Glidden. President Glidden took the reins Aug. 1 on the retirement of longtime president Warren J. Baker. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2010/July/toffee.html A Cal Poly business sophomore and her booming gourmet candy company will be featured on The Food Network show "Chefs vs. City" on Friday, July 23. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2010/July/dairy.html Three Cal Poly students earned top team and individual awards in an international dairy cattle judging competition in Scotland. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/update/2010/July.html The July Edition of Cal Poly Update, the e-newsletter for alumni, parents and friends, is online now. Find out about summer games with alumni, Cal Poly's new interim president, the Pentagon's look at a Cal Poly biotech lab, and more. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2010/July/wine.html Two Cal Poly wines received gold medals recently at the Orange County Commercial Wine Competition. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2010/July/billboard.html Thanks to its No. 1 finish at nationals, the Cal Poly Concrete Canoe team was featured on electronic billboards overlooking Times Square and Las Vegas. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2010/June/tech-park.html Construction on the first phase of the Cal Poly Technology Park wrapped up in June, and two tenants are signed to move in. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2010/June/veggies.html Sign up now for a season of summer fruits and vegetables grown on Cal Poly's 11-acre organic farm. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2010/June/cparts.html Bill Cosby, Steve Martin, The Russian National Ballet, "Spamalot," and "A Midsummer Night's Dream" are just a few of the performances Cal Poly Arts is bringing to the Central Coast. http://www.youtube.com/user/mustangdaily#p/u/3/bdhiRQUkKec See the Concrete Canoe team make the prize-winning Amazona in this video from Mustang Daily, Cal Poly's award-winning student newspaper. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2010/June/concrete.html Cal Poly's Concrete Canoe team earned first place in the 'America's Cup' of Civil Engineering Saturday (June 19), pulling past 21 other collegiate teams to win American Society of Civil Engineers’ 23rd annual National Concrete Canoe Competition. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2010/June/glidden.html Robert Glidden, president emeritus of Ohio University, has been named interim president of Cal Poly, effective Aug. 1. http://www.youtube.com/calpoly#p/a/u/0/Ic3OPfYA8cg Can't get enough 'Pomp and Circumstance'? Watch the Spring Commencement video http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/slideshows/Commencement-10/ See photos from Cal Poly's spring commencement 2010. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2010/June/commencement.html More than 3,800 students are eligible to graduate in two separate ceremonies at Cal Poly’s Spring Commencement on Saturday, June 12. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2010/June/pres_search_cont.html California State University Chancellor Charles B. Reed announced Tuesday that a new search for a president for Cal Poly will begin this fall. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/magazine/index.html Read the latest edition of Cal Poly Magazine online now, with additional photos and features. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2010/May/candidates.html Three candidates for the position of President of California Polytechnic State University are tentatively scheduled to visit the campus May 24-26. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2010/May/Mastache.html Megan Mastache, a Cal Poly graduate and member of the Central Coast Volunteer Corps on campus, was named California's inaugural AmeriCorps Member of the Year. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2010/May/arch_design_win.html Cal Poly Architecture students David Lee and Anthony Stahl were awarded the highest honor at the recent 2010 Mock Firms International Skyscraper Challenge: Collegiate Division sponsored by Chicago Architecture Today. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2010/May/ag_careerfair_win.html Cal Poly agriculture students took placed first and second for their public speaking and research skills at the 2010 conference of Minorities in Agriculture Natural Resources and Related Sciences. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2010/April/groundbreaking.html Thanks to $19 million in donations and $113 million in state bond money, Cal Poly's six-story Center for Science and Mathematics will become a reality.Formal construction of the nearly 200,000-square-foot building is scheduled to begin later this year. http://www.continuing-ed.calpoly.edu/specialprograms/grci.html Cal Poly's Graphic Communications Institute is offering one-day InDesign workshops Saturdays through May. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2010/April/Triathlon.html Cal Poly student Chris Stehula captured his first national title at USA Triathlon's Collegiate National Championship. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2010/April/Champs.html Cal Poly's Women's Volleyball team captured a national championship, and the university's Women's Water Polo squad prevailed over eight other teams to win the Pacific Coast Division Championship. Both teams are part of Cal Poly's active Club Sports program. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2010/April/dairy_win.html Cal Poly's dairy team received a "Platinum" first-place award at the 2010 North American Intercollegiate Dairy Challenge. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2010/April/Marshal.html Cal Poly President Warren J. Baker will serve as this year's Poly Royal Parade Grand Marshal at Open House April 17. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2010/April/NBC.html Journalism Alumna Vivi Zigler, president of NBC Digital Universal Entertainment, will speak on campus April 15 about climbing the career ladder from local reporter to entertainment executive. The event starts at 5 p.m. in the Kennedy Library. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2010/April/Fire.html Cal Poly will offer a new master's degree program in Fire Protection Engineering, one of only three such programs in the nation and the only one on the West Coast. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2010/April/Mustang.html The Mustang Daily was named the College Newspaper of the Year for the second consecutive year at the College Newspapers Business and Advertising Managers (CNBAM) annual convention in Los Angeles. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/nisei.html Cal Poly is looking for Japanese American alumni who had their education interrupted by relocation to internment camps during World War II. http://www.calpolyarts.org/performances/performancedate.php?id=31 Cal Poly Arts presents Los Lobos an guitarist Leo Kottke teaming up for an acoustic concert April 1 at the Cohan Center. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2010/March/corps.html Californians love the outdoors, want to get out and walk and bicycle more -- and they like campgrounds with restrooms. They think parks and recreation programs help the economy and keep children and teens out of trouble. And they think being in harmony with nature is important. Those are just some of the findings in a new report on park use in California that was powered by research by faculty in Cal Poly's Recreation, Parks and Tourism Administration Department.