Cal Poly is hosting the sixth annual “GIS Day” today to provide students with information about GIS (Geographic Information Systems) mapping technology and its unlimited uses.
From 1 to 4:30 p.m., Cal Poly and the San Luis Obispo GIS Users Group will host exhibits on the third floor of the Robert E.
Three Cal Poly students received awards this year from the Joseph Shinoda Memorial Scholarship Foundation Inc. which only gives awards to six students a year.
The winning environmental horticulture science students Jamie Mastright, Russ Newman and Heather Ephraim all plan to pursue careers in floriculture.
Winning first place once is hard enough, yet the Cal Poly Society of Women Engineers (SWE) has won first in the nation for its fifth straight year.
Each year a SWE National Conference award ceremony is held to give awards for the prior year’s accomplishments.
This Wednesday, students can find out how women are viewed in the workplace and what a “good” professional is.
Women’s Programs and Career Services are hosting the discussion as a part of the “Coffee and Careers” series that started this fall.
“We wanted to create an opportunity for women to have access to mentoring and support about career issues unique to women,” said Charlotte Rinaldi, a Cal Poly career counselor.
A nationally acclaimed local quilter will be giving a free lecture tonight in Chumash Auditorium.
Denise M. Campbell has quilts on national display and has been asked to display them at the Smithsonian. She is also Cal Poly’s associate vice president for student affairs.
Mr. Fraternity should be Chris Barksdale’s middle name. At first glance, he may seem like the typical frat boy, but he has a lot more on his plate than most.
Barksdale is not only the president of his fraternity, Beta Theta Pi, but he is also Cal Poly’s Interfraternity Council (IFC) president, where he represents the 18 social fraternities on campus.
Cal Poly may soon join a growing number of CSUs that are utilizing iTunes U, an innovative software that allows professors to produce podcasts of items such as lectures, campus news, and class notes that students can readily download to their iPods.
By utilizing the iTunes software, developed and hosted by Apple Computer, Inc.
Cal Poly students who recently tried to get a little action online were rejected en masse. The Web sites in question weren’t MySpace or facebook. The usual suspects were replaced by partypoker.com, pokerroom.com and fulltiltpoker.net.
The reason for the denial was the recent passage of the Security and Accountability For Every Port Act of 2006, which was signed into law by President Bush on Oct.
Cal Poly’s University Advancement division has appointed Allison Jones as its first scholarship coordinator in order to increase the number of available scholarships and improve student-donor relations.
In an effort to improve scholarships, internships and endowments, Jones will coordinate donor relations and will develop and maintain the scholarship-giving Web site.
A run-in with a train cost psychology student Ryan West his right foot early Saturday morning.
Union Pacific Railroad contacted the San Luis Obispo Police Department (SLOPD) at 1:16 a.m. to notify authorities that a pedestrian had been hit, authorities said.
Forty minutes and 17 seconds.
That’s how long the North Dakota State football team possessed the ball in its 51-14 rout of Cal Poly on Saturday. The loss in front of 14,706 fans at the Fargodome in Fargo, N.D., ends both the Mustangs’ Great West Football Conference title and Division I-AA playoff hopes.