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For first-generation students like Alicia Cruz, a college education can present some special challenges
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A new center on campus is bringing lessons in leadership to students who may not be an ASI president or club officer
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One alumni family has given one of the university’s largest gift ever to support undergraduate research opportunities
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Editor's Desk
Taking note of the special time of year that reunites the entire Cal Poly community
Letters
In this issue's letters: a few corrections, a proud grandfather and a question about the traditional definition of alumni success
Community Stories
Entrepreneur Brett Bernstein shares the casual networking tips he learned during his time at Cal Poly
Cal Poly News
Cal Poly’s intensive engineering summer camp is expanding its focus to students from migrant families
Cal Poly News
The answer to the pressing environmental problems of drought and clean energy might come from an unlikely source: the printing press
In The Media
This summer, Popular Science reported on a high-profile on-campus test of promising new space exploration technology
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Take a tour of the new Cal Poly Lofts, a living-learning community for student entrepreneurs in the heart of Downtown SLO
QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
The new ASI president continues a three-generation heritage of service at Cal Poly
Cal Poly News
A new focus and a new name for the popular Recreation, Parks and Tourism Administration program
Cal Poly News
At the Cal Poly Pier, students and faculty reel in data that informs ocean researchers around the world
Cal Poly News
Cal Poly is nurturing a new generation of female business leaders in the MBA program
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A worldwide public art event moooves into San Luis Obispo this year, and Cal Poly is part of the herd
Cal Poly News
A photo campaign celebrating the many different faces of the Cal Poly community returned to campus this year
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Cal Poly alumni took to social media this summer to say goodbye to a campus dining institution
Ask the Archivist
Where do university historians go to dig into Cal Poly's past?
How I Learn By Doing
Orientation intern Gabby Pajo brings passion and creativity to Week of Welcome
By the Numbers
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A new national ranking highlights the unique factors that makes Cal Poly's Week of Welcome so special
The Mustang Report
When tragedy struck a new Mustang football recruit, the Athletics staff banded together with his hometown community
Spaces
Meet the man who leads the effort to turn 6,500 acres of Cal Poly farmland into a massive Learn by Doing opportunity
Heritage
College of Science and Mathematics dean Phil Bailey, retiring this year, looks back on a five-decade career at Cal Poly
Alumni
Alumni photographer Tom Sanders on the senior project that shaped his career and showcased the stories of American heroes
Alumni
This growing chapter's summer reunion sampled all the best the Central Coast has to offer
Last Word
President Jeffrey D. Armstrong on the value of a welcoming, supportive and diverse Cal Poly community
Community Stories
Gerald Shingleton on the his role in what he calls "one of the greatest Poly Royal department exhibits ever"
Community Stories
From a job in community development, destiny launched John FitzRandolph neck-deep into the world of rock music
Community Stories
A background in learning by doing led Breeze Wetzel to start a very tasty company.
Community Stories
Erinn Taylor never planned for his unexpectedly exciting career in market research.