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/2009/November/Panel.html Hear executives from Starbucks, IBM and Disney speak from 11 a.m. to noon Thursday, Nov. 19 in Philips Hall at the Performing Arts Center. Free and open to the public. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/November/climate.html Cal Poly students will present their ideas for the future of transportation in the city and county of San Luis Obispo Thursday afternoon. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/November/KML-Center.html Cal Poly students and faculty, representatives of information technology companies, and government researchers will work in a new center outside St. Louis to streamline and improve the process of delivering equipment and supplies to U.S. military around the world. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/November/grad_rates.html Cal Poly's graduation rates increased to an all-time high with the graduating class of the spring of 2009. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/October/Bandfest.html You'll hear "A Whirlwind of Color and Sound" at Saturday's Bandfest 2009 in the Performing Arts Center. Listen to the Cal Poly Wind Orchestra, Wind Ensemble and Mustang Band. Showtime is 8 p.m. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/November/sub.html Cal Poly professors are launching and receiving training on the use of the REMUS 600 unmanned underwater vehicle today (Nov. 10) in Avila Beach. Cal Poly is the first academic institution in the U.S. get the remote ocean drone, which will greatly enhance the university's ability to do research. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/ The Cal Poly Mustangs will tackle the U.C. Davis Aggies Saturday in Davis. Kickoff is set for 1 p.m. in Aggie Stadium. Can't get to there? Catch audio and video streaming at www.gopoly.com. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/November/arch-award.html A Cal Poly architecture student was recognized for her inhabitable library design at the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture conference in Chicago. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/October/weight.html Successful weight-losers have more exercise equipment and fewer TVs in their houses than obese people. That's one of the surprising findings in a newly-released study led by Cal Poly Kinesiology Professor Suzanne Phelan. http://www.wasc.calpoly.edu/ Tell the university where you think it is now -- and where it should go in the future. Cal Poly wants YOU to comment on the university's self-study by Nov. 6. The self-study is part of the current review by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC). http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/October/SWE-awards.html Cal Poly Society of Women Engineers (SWE) took home four first place awards at the SWE National Conference. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/October/aerospace.html Aviation Week and Space Technology has named Cal Poly second in the nation for industry workforce recruiting - just behind No. 1 Virginia Tech. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/October/HandsonHealth.html Cal Poly's 'Hands on Health' celebration is offering a series of free fun events Friday and Saturday, Oct. 30 and 31. Events include a 5K Fun Run, a Monster Dance Children's Costume Contest, a performance by Big Daddy's Blues Band, and more. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/October/maze.html Cal Poly's popular Haunted Corn Maze will start the fright on schedule Friday night despite recent rains. The Cal Poly Crops Club Haunted Corn Maze is set to run Oct. 30 from 5 to 9 p.m. Families with younger children can take advantage of family hour -- with less fright -- from 5 to 6 p.m. http://www.wasc.calpoly.edu/ Tell the university where you think it is now -- and where it should go in the future. Cal Poly wants YOU to comment on the university's self study by Nov. 6. The self study is part of the current review by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC). http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/October/book.html Cozy up to a Kindle and explore beautiful, bound books as students and professors discuss "What is a Book?" The event is free and open to the public. It's an informal discussion (plus refreshments!) on everything bookish. From 4:30 to 6 p.m. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/ Some 2,250 parents and family members are expected on campus this Saturday for Cal Poly's annual Parents' Weekend events. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/October/Barden.html Cal Poly Alum Ramses Barden announced this week that he is going to donate a minimum of $7,500 back to the Mustang football program this season. The NFL player says that he'll donate $1,000 for every Cal Poly Mustangs football victory and $500 for every touchdown he scores this season for the New York Giants. He's challenging everyone to match him. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/October/dairy_herd.html Cal Poly announced Tuesday that it is putting a plan to reduce the size of its dairy herd on hold thanks to offers of help from alumni and dairy industry supporters. http://calpolyparent.calpoly.edu/parentsweekend.asp Thousands of family members will be on campus this Saturday for Cal Poly's annual Parents' Weekend. The schedule of events includes a Parents for Philanthropy reception, the Mustang Tailgate BBQ, Oktoberfest, a football game vs. Dixie State, the Cal Poly Choirs’ concert and Deyo Dances. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/October/pollan2.html Harman Hall's 1,300 seats were packed and the crowd of listeners spilled out into the Christopher Cohan Center lobby and surrounding Performing Arts Center Plaza at Cal Poly Thursday, Oct. 15 for a panel discussion on agriculture. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/update/2009/October.html The October edition of Cal Poly Update e-newsletter is online. Read it for the video interview with gold-medal student winemakers, plus news and photos on a multi-million dollar alumni company that made TIME Magazine for making tea and saving the rainforest and more. Didn't get it in your e-mail Wednesday? Click through above to read and subscribe to get it next month. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/October/Congress.html Under the direction of Cal Poly alum Bob Tapella (B.S., Graphic Communication, 1991), the U.S. Government Printing Office has produced the daily Congressional Record using 100 percent recycled paper for the first time. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/October/fibre.html Kumar Malavalli, considered one of the originators of high-speed Fibre Channel computer networking technology, will speak at Cal Poly on Thursday, Oct. 15 as part of the Orfalea College of Business Distinguished Guest Speaker Series. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/October/sustainability.html GreenReportCard.org has named Cal Poly a Campus Sustainability Leader for 2010 for its ongoing efforts in sustainable campus practices -- making Cal Poly the only California State University campus to earn the award. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/October/grant.html Cal Poly is partnering with CSU Monterey Bay and CSU Bakersfield in the grant program, which will focus on high-needs schools in Central California. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/October/Aircraft.html Cal Poly's Hummingbird Aeronautics student design team took second place in a national competition for its design of the Tersus, a 150-seat "environmentally compatible” transport aircraft. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu//magazine/Fall-09/index.html The Fall 2009 edition of Cal Poly Magazine is online now -- complete with stories and video of students testing satellites in zero gravity thanks to NASA, a new video scoreboard in Spanos Stadium, the latest 'hands on' learning at a Central Coast lighthouse, and more. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/September/Voice.html Six of Cal Poly Music Department's leading voice emphasis music majors will perform and be critiqued by a UCLA music professor Oct. 13. Come watch, listen and learn about opera in the free master class. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/September/NSCS.html The Cal Poly chapter of the National Society of Collegiate Scholars has received the gold award from its national group for recruitment, induction and community service efforts. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/September/Guyaki.html TIME Magazine's Sept. 14 edition (online and print) featured a story on Guayaki Yerba Mate - the "Tree-Hugging Tea." The company was started by Cal Poly friends and alumni Alex Pryor (Food Science and Nutrition, 1998) and David Karr (Business, 1996). http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/September/new-students.html Fall Quarter starts Tuesday, Sept. 22, and Cal Poly is expecting to see a little more than 3,800 new freshmen and 750 transfer students. As usual, they're the cream of the crop academically. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/September/Hearst.html Phong V. Dang, a finance major in Cal Poly's Orfalea College of Business, is the 2009 California Polytechnic State University recipient of the prestigious William Randolph Hearst CSU Trustees' Award for Outstanding Achievement. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/September/alcohol.html Concerned about a recent spate of alcohol-related incidents and injuries, Cal Poly officials on Wednesday announced a series of aggressive short-term steps aimed at discouraging excessive partying and promoting responsible student behavior. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/September/traffic.html If you haven't been campus for a while, get ready for these auto access changes: South Perimeter Road is officially closed to vehicle traffic, and there is now a STOP sign for incoming traffic at the California Boulevard entrance to Cal Poly at Campus Way. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/September/baker-remarks.html Cal Poly President Warren J. Baker outlined progress and challenges facing Cal Poly during the opening of Fall Conference Monday. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/ Some 4,200 new students are here this week for WOW, Cal Poly's annual student orientation program. Faculty returned to campus this week as well for Fall Conference. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/update/2009/September.html Find out about fall wine tastings, alumni in space (right now), top rankings for Cal Poly, professors in the Wall Street Journal and Sacramento Bee, and more in the September edition of Cal Poly Update, the e-newsletter for university alumni, parents and friends. http://www.youtube.com/calpoly Catch up with Cal Poly on YouTube - subscribe at www.youtube.com/calpoly. Check out videos made by the university - and some of the university's favorite student-made videos. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/September/wsj.html Business Professor Dawn Chandler co-authored an article in the Wall Street Journal -- and was interviewed on WSJ Video. The topic? How to be a smart protege. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/September/delta.html Professor Charles Burt, Director of Cal Poly's Irrigation Training and Research Center, wrote a Sacramento Bee guest column on the future of the San Joaquin Delta. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/September/HVAC.html Students from Cal Poly's College of Engineering took first place in a national collegiate competition involving designing heating, air conditioning and ventilation (HVAC) systems. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/August/STRIDE.html Cal Poly's COPE (Center for Obesity Prevention and Education) has a new name but the same mission for nutritional health. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/August/collegians.html It's a tradition worth keeping: dance to the Big Band sound of The Cal Poly Collegians from 7 to 11 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 29, at the Madonna Inn. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/August/Floral.html Cal Poly's Floral Design Team took second place in the student competition at the American Institute of Floral Designers National Symposium. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/August/US_News_2010.html Cal Poly was ranked Best in the West among public master's universities for the 17th year straight by U.S. News and World Report. The university also moved up to 6th place from 10th in the magazine's overall rankings of best public and private universities in the West. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/August/Swanton3.html Cal Poly's Swanton Pacific Ranch served as a haven for Santa Cruz horses displaced by the area's Lockheed Fire over the past weekend. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/August/Swanton2.html Winds shifted and a Santa Cruz wild fire burned on parts of Cal Poly's 3,200-acre Swanton Pacific Ranch there Friday afternoon. Four Cal Poly staff members and seven student interns remain at the ranch corrals with all ranch animals, and are safe outside the evacuation area. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/August/Swanton.html Cal Poly's 3,200-acre Swanton Pacific Ranch in Santa Cruz County was briefly touched by the Lockheed Fire on Wednesday and has been evacuated. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/August/OCOB_Feas.html Cal Poly's Orfalea College of Business will study the feasibility of offering graduate business degree programs in Santa Barbara beginning in fall 2010. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/ Increase your university news power by reading the August edition of Cal Poly Update, the monthly e-newsletter for university alumni and friends. Find out who's in the newest crop of NorCal Superlawyers, who was interviewed by the New York Times, and more. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/August/diverse.html Cal Poly is among the Top 10 schools in the nation in granting degrees to Hispanic, Asian and other minority students in agriculture, architecture and engineering. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/August/Forbes.html Cal Poly has been named one of America's top colleges and universities by Forbes magazine. The list, released this week, puts Cal Poly at No. 201 out of 600 colleges and universities. Cal Poly is the highest-ranked California State University campus on the Forbes list. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/August/dairy.html#students A Cal Poly Dairy Science team took second in the American Dairy Science Association Student Activity Division Quiz Bowl. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/August/CRP-Awards.html Cal Poly's City and Regional Planning Department has won awards for work on community projects in Delano and Benicia. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/ Phillip Tong, dairy science professor and director of Cal Poly's Dairy Products Technology Center, has been named the 93rd president of the American Dairy Science Association. http://www.calpolyarts.org/performances/performanceadded.php?id=56 Cal Poly Arts has just added country legend Merle Haggard to its fall concert lineup Sept. 30. http://www.pacslo.org/events/viewevent.php?event=772 All the way from the UK, the National Youth Choir of Great Britain is coming to the Christopher Cohan stage for an inspiring evening of song Monday, Aug. 3. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/July/faculty-furlough.html The California Faculty Association announced its members voted to agree to furloughs, meaning professors will take two days per month without pay along with the rest of Cal Poly employees. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/July/Furloughs.html Cal Poly announced today the start of furloughs for employees, layoffs and other measures to deal with $33.7 million in state budget cuts to campus. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/July/budget-cuts.html Cal Poly leaders outlined the impacts of the state budget cuts in an e-mail to all campus employees Wendesday morning, July 22. Read the full e-mail. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/July/calpoly-value.html With Tuesday's latest CSU student fee increase, Cal Poly fees will be 29 percent lower than the current average for the University of California system and still among the lowest in the country. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/ Cal Poly's College of Education merged with the College of Science and Mathematics on July 1. The move means a cost savings for the university, as well as better math and science training for future teachers. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/July/armstrong.html Cal Poly Professor Emeritus Mary Beth Armstrong will receive a national award in August in New York recognizing her years of work teaching and pushing for high ethical standards in public accounting. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/July/Glabe.html June architecture grad Rachel Grabe's senior project - a design for a quake-safe seismology center in San Francisco -- has received national mention. http://www.calpolyarts.org/performances/performancedate.php?id=43 There's still a chance to get tickets for Grammy-winner Lyle Lovett and his Large Band at the PAC Aug. 8. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/July/arch-award.html "Spider Tower" and "LA Skyscraper" are the first student designs ever to receive awards from an American Institute of Architects Central Coast chapter. See the designs by Cal Poly Architecture students. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu//update/2009/July.html Think you got all the news about Cal Poly? Think again. The July edition of Update, the Cal Poly E-Newsletter for university alumni and friends, just went online. Check it out for news on Mustang Red, rodeo cowboys, 40-lb. fish and more. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/magazine/Summer-09/index.html It's the last day take the online Cal Poly Magazine reader survey. Check out the magazine and fill out the survey to help us plan future editions and get a chance to win $25 in Cal Poly gear. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/July/Wines.html Cal Poly's student-made Mustang Red won the double gold medal at the prestigious San Francisco International Wine Competition; the university's Syrah and Pinot Noir also earned medals in a Central Coast judging. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/July/Rosen.html The family of Arthur 'Art' Z. Rosen has set up a memorial scholarship for Cal Poly Physics Students. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/July/Epic.html Some 140 high school students are on campus this week for the Engineering Possibilities in College (EPIC) summer camp, an outreach program that focuses on exposing young women and economically disadvantaged students to engineering. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/June/pres_div_award.html Cal Poly President Warren J. Baker recently presented the President's Diversity Award to the Multicultural Engineering Program and to Delta Lambda Phi fraternity. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/June/Capps.html Cal Poly professors and students will join Congresswoman Lois Capps at a press conference this afternoon(July 2) outlining federal stimulus funding awards to the university. http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/June/budget.html While no details have yet been set, discussions will continue with the CSU Board of Trustees at a special meeting July 7. The trustees will then use their regularly scheduled July 21 meeting to adopt an action plan that will be implemented systemwide.