Mustang Daily Staff Report news@mustangdaily.net Budget cuts threaten to reduce the National Science Foundation’s budget, but Cal Poly professors are not too worried about grants for their research projects getting denied, they said. They’ve made progress and positive strides in…
Trailing forward: staff member looks to improve pathway
Kaitlyn Henry Special to the Mustang Daily Nancy Reid has a vision. She wants to create a new terrace and pathway along the back side of Clyde P. Fisher Science Hall (Building 33). She has drawn up a plan with…
Auto engineers look to improve presentation
Carly Cady Special to the Mustang Daily The Society of Automotive Engineers Baja Team has been good with wrenches in competition, but not as good with words. While the team has done well building the vehicles, it has consistently lost…
New bike to combine speed, safety
Carly Cady Special to the Mustang Daily The need for speed had been replaced by the necessity to make a bike people can realistically use. The Human Powered Vehicle Club is taking a new approach to building its vehicle this…
Running blind: CP engineers create app for ‘untethered running’
Lauren Frye used to run, she said. She trained and competed in marathons, but then her eyesight began to fade in her early 20s. She could see less and less until she could only make out light and dark objects,…
Ag community looking for better labeling proposition
Erin Springer Special to the Mustang Daily Cal Poly agricultural communicators celebrated when Proposition 37, aimed at labeling genetically engineered products, was defeated at the beginning of this month. However, department members are in support of drafting a better proposition…
Safety first
Katharine Gore Special to Mustang Daily A month after he took on the job of Industrial Technology Lab Coordinator, Ray Kisch saw a visitor catch her heel in a two-foot deep trench in an I.T. lab. The woman could have…
Department looking to improve math scores
Some 10 percent of freshmen fail their math midterms and start scrambling to save their sinking grades before finals, Cal Poly mathematics professor Adrienne Riley said. But the math department has tools and resources to keep them afloat. Midterms in…
FLASH cleaning: health study examining data
The FLASH team, which studies health and habits of college students, is “cleaning up” the data it started collecting with the class of 2009, program manager and graduate student Adam Abudra said. The team is working on examining 1,571 physical…
Materials and deadlines
Industrial technology senior Audrey Egan is getting a taste of business as an operations manager for a lab class offered at Cal Poly. Students in Applied Business Operations (IT 407) must think of an idea, invest in materials, manufacture and then…
School of Education stays offline
Cal Poly’s School of Education is not jumping on the online education bandwagon any time soon. Instead, the school is teaching students to teach in a traditional classroom setting with face to face methods, rather than face to screen instruction.…