Every time a vehicle, bike or motorcycle enters or exits Cal Poly’s campus, it’s being tracked, often without the driver knowing. Its license plate is scanned and make and model noted, along with the exact date, time and location by a network of license plate readers monitored by the Cal Poly Police Department. The readers […]
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The Class of 2026 faces uncertain future as AI reshapes job market
“I don’t feel sure that I’m gonna get a job by the time I graduate,” senior Nashali Vicente Lopez said. Lopez is one of many students preparing to graduate without a clear answer on how Artificial Intelligence (AI) will affect her career. She started at Cal Poly as a computer science major to become a […]
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CSU’s AI move feels less like innovation and more like overreach
The Cal State system is unjustly inserting itself in what should be a classroom-to-classroom dynamic. If professors want to encourage AI use for their assignments, great. If students decide on their own that the benefit is worth $20 a month, great. I believe it is not the Cal State’s place to provide these tools to students without meaningfully consulting faculty.
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The Loneliness Epidemic: what it is and how we can help cure it
Loneliness is connected to a greater risk of cardiovascular disease, dementia, stroke, depression, anxiety, and premature death. The loneliness epidemic is already causing and will continue to cause health and social issues. But to change it, we need to change the social fabric of our country: an intimidatingly enormous task.
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Cal Poly student-run project a ‘catalyst’ in finding missing persons
Cal Poly alumnus Christopher Young vividly remembers his first search and rescue mission on Nov. 5, 1984. Missing person Roberta “Bibi” Lee mysteriously disappeared, prompting Young and the Contra Costa Search and Rescue Unit to search Redwood Regional Park in Oakland Hills, CA. The search was not successful, and Lee’s body was found a month […]
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SpaceDucks: Cal Poly students prepare to launch devices into space
During the launch days, the team will be on a 400-acre ranch house near Cal Poly that is the headquarters for the launch, dedicated to “hacking.”
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Meet Hack4Impact: The club helping San Luis Obispo nonprofits with software solutions
It was the day off for the Partners in Equestrian Therapy volunteers. Six tech developers from Cal Poly’s Hack4Impact stood on the ranch grounds, hay scattered. The smell of manure perfumed the area. The monotonous pattering of rain was occasionally interrupted by horses braying in the stables. The Partners in Equestrian Therapy, a nonprofit focused […]
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The damage dilemma: how a team of Cal Poly professors and students are helping wildfire victims with AI
A group of Cal Poly professors and students have created an artificial intelligence (AI) technology used to assess damaged buildings and homes after wildfires. The team hopes that their technology can be used to swiftly assess damaged buildings and aid thousands of California residents in receiving insurance benefits. The technology, Damage Map, uses aerial images […]
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Cal Poly seniors to launch second weather balloon into space with Project OWL
In 2019, aerospace senior Evan Agarwal teamed up with technology company Project OWL to test out a device that would provide cheap, limited Wi-Fi in disaster zones by launching it into space on a giant weather balloon — and now they want to do it again. The device, or payload, which they are calling a […]
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Meet the makers of STYX and STONES, a Cal Poly robot
A group of eight Cal Poly mechanical engineering seniors are advancing to the semifinals for a NASA competition that asks students to create technology for the future of space exploration. NASA’s Moon to Mars Ice and Prospecting Challenge is asking students to create a system that is capable of being placed on Mars to extract […]
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Students experiencing WiFi outages say it has severely impacted their studies
With many students returning home without access to the technology and WiFi Cal Poly’s campus already provides, some students have experienced technical difficulties that have severely impacted their studies. “There wasn’t anything that I could do, and I kinda just had to wait it out and hope that the Internet would come back on,” business […]