Features

Engineering
Students build prosthetics for boy who lost his fingers in a fiery crash

Julian Reynoso will receive two prosthetic hands made by students in the Quality of Life Plus (QL+) Lab over the past three quarters.

Features
Transfer students say they lack resources to succeed at Cal Poly

English junior Viridiana Camorlinga remembers the moment she opened the email. For the first time in her life, she was on academic probation. Her stomach dropped. Yes, she had had personal issues. Yes, her pre-existing anxiety had become worse. But…

Cover Story
UCs provide Hormone Replacement Therapy for students — why doesn’t Cal Poly?

During her sophomore year at Cal Poly, environmental management and protection junior Autumn Ford came out as transgender non-binary and was ready to begin her physical transition with Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT). “I had known from a fairly moderate age…

Cover Story
Salat at Cal Poly: Finding space for prayer with only one prayer room

Abdullah Sulaiman prays five times most days. Usually, three to four of those prayers happen on Cal Poly’s campus. There is only one designated area for prayer on campus. The Inclusive Prayer/Meditation/Sensory Room: a small, approximately 8’x11’ room on the…

Features
How a little black box is helping people with Parkinson’s disease walk

Eighty-seven-year-old Jack Brill has Parkinson’s disease, which had taken away his ability to walk. Sidney Collin — founder of a medical device company De Oro Devices and a biomedical engineering alumnus — is fixing that. “It changed my life, [and]…