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Students work on a CubeSat in a clean room on campus.

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13th Cal Poly CubeSat Launches into Space

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Artemis II NASA astronauts (left to right) Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen wear orange suits and stand in a room at Kennedy Space Center.

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Alumnus Victor Glover Pilots NASA’s First Lunar Mission in 50 Years

A Cal Poly student works with a local high school student cutting vegetables at a farm.

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Cal Poly's College Corps Funded For Three More Years Through State Grant

Cal Poly universities' 2026 Rose Parade Float on the streets of Pasadena.

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Cal Poly Float Wins Sweepstakes Award at 2026 Rose Parade

A professor handles equipment in a lab as two students look on.

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Cal Poly Scientists Look to Ancient Microbes to Discover the Antibiotics of the Future

Two CubeSat team members in the thermal vacuum chamber room with a CubeSat.

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Cal Poly Continues Streak as Best in the West For 33rd Straight Year

An artist's rendering of the 2026 Rose Float.

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Animal Engineers and Huge Robot Highlight Cal Poly Universities 2026 Rose Float Design

A group of people who worked on the Digital Democracy tool pose for a photo.

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Digital Democracy, Created at Cal Poly, Wins Emmy for Political Reporting

Cal Poly students launch an ocean powered generator from a boat in Morro Bay.

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Wave Generator Created by Engineering Teams Could Charge Marine Corps Batteries

The 2024 Rose Float rides down the street covered in musical scenes.

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Cal Poly Float Wins Crown City Innovator Award At 2024 Rose Parade

The sun shines through a cloud of orange smoke as a wildfire burns a California hillside

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Early Warning for Wildfires: Cal Poly Team Patents New Technique with Existing Equipment

An artist's drawing of the 2024 Rose Float entry shows an eel playing electric guitar and other sea creatures with musical instruments.

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Shock and Aww: Rose Float Team Reveals Electric Design for 75th Entry

A student in professor Leslie Hamachi’s CHEM 548 - Polymer Synthesis Laboratory and CHEM 448 - Polymers and Coatings Laboratory II class performs an experiment using different colors of UV light to see which will polymerize a solution in less time.

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Cal Poly Ranked Best Overall Master's-Level University in the West

A black and white photo of political science student Dani Bello.

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Political Science Student Selected for Congressional Internship in D.C.

A stock image of a wildfire in a forest that is burning trees.

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The Future of Fires: Cal Poly Partners with Western Fire Officials to Protect Communities

A field of orange flowers on a cliff overlooking the Pacific Ocean and Cal Poly Pier.

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How Does Climate Change Impact California Ocean Temperatures? Cal Poly Study Investigates

A group of four students stand next to a television screen as they present a PowerPoint presentation. A professor is sitting at the table in front of them, watching intently.

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Beating the Heat: Students Map California Tree Canopy to Cool Cities as Climate Warms