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A view of the green hills leading down to the coast in Morro Bay. Morro Rock is visible in the distance.

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Local Town Could Make California a Green Energy Leader, Professors' Report Says

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Five business students participating in the Low Income Taxpayer Clinic sit in conversation around a round table with papers in front of them.

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Students Saved Low-Income Clients Nearly $400K in Hands-On Tax Clinic

Astronaut and Cal Poly alum Victor Glover wears his official blue NASA jacket and crosses his arms as he poses for a portrait.

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Alumnus Victor Glover Will Pilot NASA's Artemis II Mission Around the Moon

History student Ethan Gutterman, who was a Panetta Intern on Capitol Hill smiles for a photo in front of the U.S. Capitol Building

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Work Local, Think Global: Student Serves Home District on Capitol Hill

The Cal Poly Rose Float 'Road to Reclamation' rolls down Colorado Boulevard in Pasadena

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Cal Poly Float Wins Extraordinaire Award at 2023 Rose Parade

Nine people stand, some wearing masks, smile in front of Cal Poly's Mobile Health Unit

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Professor Receives Grant to Improve Healthcare Access for Hispanic and Indigenous Women

A pile of beets at a farmer's market stand on the Cal Poly campus.

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Ask an Expert: How Will Climate Change Shape California's Food Future?

A group of students cluster on a pier in Morro Bay to look at instruments to measure waves and tides. A boat is in the left part of the image.

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One Swell Project: Students Develop Instruments to Measure Waves, Tides

An aerial photo of the Cal Poly campus on on a sunny day with Bishop Peak

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Behind ‘Best in the West’: How Cal Poly Has Evolved in the Last Three Decades

A Rose Parade float covered in flowers featuring cows with jetpacks drives down a sunny street with a Rose Parades sign behind it

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Cal Poly Float Wins Animation Award at 2022 Rose Parade®

Hands in silhouette place a strip of paper into a clear plastic vial

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Cal Poly-Developed COVID-19 Saliva Testing Technology Will be Brought to Market

A nursing home damaged by the Camp Fire in Paradise.

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Cal Poly Project Could Help Communities Recover from Wildfires — Using AI

Three women wearing masks stand around white plastic tanks filled with water and Pismo clams.

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Keep Clam and Carry On: Researchers Work to Bring Back a Pismo Tradition

Two students run tests on solar panels in a Cal Poly engineering lab

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Soaking Up the Sun: Student Research Aims to Make Campus’ Solar Field More Powerful

A researcher wearing a blue shirt touches a plant with lichens growing on its branches

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Ecology’s Next Frontier: Student Researchers Hone in on Rare and Understudied Lichens

Five students sit at desks in the Hot House facing computers and hardware

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Could These Students Improve the Global Food Supply? They’re Finding Out — One Tractor at a Time

A woman in sweatpants and a black shirt looks at a computer with earphones in, studying, and sits against a wall between stacks of books in the Kennedy Library, with a big backpack next to her.

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'They Are Much More Engaged.' CSU Program Helps Cal Poly Students by Removing Barriers to Success