When architecture sophomore Diana Fierro Gonzalez and her family first got an email that Texas was going to experience some cold weather, she said wasn’t worried. Cold snaps are common for a Texas winter. When the power shut off for supposed rolling power blackouts, she still wasn’t worried. But then, the power didn’t come back for almost a week.
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How the military coup in Myanmar is affecting international students
From the moment she wakes up to the moment she falls asleep, May Thiri Kyaw is on Instagram checking the news from Myanmar to see who has been arrested, if her mom is OK, if anyone has been shot or if more propaganda has been spread or if the internet has been cut off.
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New Wine and Viticulture Center will be ready fall 2021
An undertaking that has been about fifteen years in the making, Cal Poly’s Wine and Viticulture Center is expected to be completed in the Fall of 2021, according to wine and viticulture professor Federico Casassa.
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Music production club to produce a new album
Frank Holmoka did not imagine his senior year as president of the Music Production Union (MPU) to include Among Us game nights and Skribbl.io tournaments. However, due to COVID-19, Holmoka has had to work with club members to come up with unique ways to share student-produced music.
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Cal Poly graduate brings the conversation of marginalized groups into the classroom
As Black Lives Matter (BLM) protesters filled city streets this past summer, biomedical engineering graduate student Alexander Silva thought of other ways to combat racism in the field of biomedical engineering.
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Retiring during a pandemic
To some, the past few decades seem to have brought more change in every walk of life than the entire century prior. But to mechanical engineering professor James Locascio, the one thing that has remained the same are his students.
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Cal Poly alumnus pilots mission to space
Cal Poly alumnus Cmdr. Victor Glover starts his journey to space tomorrow. On Nov. 15, Glover will pilot a SpaceX mission to NASA’s International Space Station. People can watch the live launch here on Nov. 15 at 4:27 p.m. “Space exploration unifies and inspires — it is about humanity and creating opportunities for all people everywhere,” Glover said […]
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2020’s plant craze: Why students are buying plants during quarantine
Since the start of quarantine, many other students at Cal Poly have been starting and adding to their own plant collections, along with Sugai.
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San Luis Obispo community reacts to Biden presidency: “It’s a good day”
Dancing, music and cheers could be heard throughout Mission Plaza Sunday, Nov. 8 to celebrate the presidential win for Joe Biden. “I feel like there’s a genuine joy across the country for the first time in a long time,” celebration attendee Ben Bellizzi said. “Even though 70 million people across the country voted for that […]
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A look inside in-person labs on campus
Plastic barriers between desks, double doors open to ensure proper air flow, students taking labs with masks and face shields on and occupying at 50 percent capacity with their partners over zoom — these are some of the precautions that these mechanical engineering students have had to take in order to attend their in-person labs […]
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Students improve shark-spotting technology
Sept. 2020 marked the end to one of Cal Poly’s summer undergraduate research programs (SURP) where students and Cal Poly alumni developed a safer and cheaper tool to detect sharks off the coast of California using artificial intelligence. Before the new technology, volunteers for the shark lab would have to comb through hours of drone […]