Recent News
Cal Poly Names Adriana Popescu Dean of Library Services
May 18, 2018
SAN LUIS OBISPO — Cal Poly has named Adriana Popescu as its new dean of library services effective June 1, Provost Kathleen Enz Finken announced today.
Popescu will be responsible for the direction, development, implementation and evaluation of all aspects of library services and programs to meet the scholarly and intellectual needs of the university community. She was appointed dean following a nationwide search.
She joined Kennedy Library in 2015 as the associate dean for academic services and has filled the dean’s role on an interim basis since 2016, overseeing an annual budget of more than $7 million and about 50 faculty and staff members.
Cal Poly Men and Masculinity Program to Host Manifest Exhibit May 22-25
May 17, 2018
SAN LUIS OBISPO — Cal Poly’s Men and Masculinity program will host its annual Manifest exhibit from May 22 through 25 at the University Art Gallery. An opening reception is scheduled for 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 22.
The exhibit aims to create an engaging and dynamic space for people to think about, talk about and participate in shaping individuals’ thoughts about men and masculinity. This year’s exhibition theme is “Masculinity: Art from Dark to Light,” which seeks to capture the wide range of experiences and perceptions of masculinity.
Jupyter Collaboration Led by Cal Poly and UC Berkeley Receives Top Software Award
May 17, 2018
Software is the go-to tool for authoring and sharing code for computational research, data science and AI
SAN LUIS OBISPO — Project Jupyter may be the best-kept secret on the Cal Poly campus, but the open-source software is well-known at such tech giants as Microsoft, Google and IBM, which have created entire commercial data science platforms based on it.
Led by Cal Poly physics Professor Brian Granger and Fernando Pérez of UC Berkeley, the international team that developed Jupyter received the 2018 Software System Award from the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), the world’s largest society of educational and academic computer scientists. Past award recipients include the inventors of the World Wide Web, TCP/IP networking, the UNIX operating system and the Java programming language.
Cal Poly Students Earn Four Awards at Statewide Research Competition
May 15, 2018
SAN LUIS OBISPO — Four Cal Poly students received awards — including three who earned first-place honors— at the 32nd annual California State University Student Research Competition held May 4-5 at Sacramento State University.
The competition promoted excellence in scholarly research and creative activity by recognizing outstanding student accomplishments throughout the CSU — the nation’s largest four-year public university system, with nearly 485,000 students. Forty-one individuals received either a first- or second-place award in 21 categories. They shared $15,500 in prizes; $500 for first-place awards and $250 for seconds.
Cal Poly Scholars Program to Receive $80,000 Gift From Amazon
May 15, 2018
Four-year scholarships will benefit students in computer science or software engineering
SAN LUIS OBISPO — Cal Poly today announced that Amazon has pledged $80,000 to the university in support of high-achieving students in the Cal Poly Scholars Program.
The donation will support eight Cal Poly Scholars majoring in computer science or software engineering for four years, starting in fall 2018.
The universitywide Cal Poly Scholars Program was established by President Jeffrey D. Armstrong in 2012 to recruit and retain qualified California students.
Cal Poly’s University Jazz Bands to Play a Variety of Styles on June 9
May 14, 2018
SAN LUIS OBISPO — Cal Poly’s University Jazz Bands will perform a mix of Latin jazz, jazz/rock and traditional jazz — and will throw in a few surprises — at the annual Jazz Night Concert at 8 p.m. Saturday, June 9, in Spanos Theatre on the Cal Poly campus.
“About 40 students in our University Jazz Bands have been preparing all quarter for a memorable performance,” Cal Poly Director of Jazz Studies Paul Rinzler said. “The concert will be sure to thrill jazz aficionados as well as anyone experiencing the genre for the first time.”
Cal Poly Campus Community Members, Groups to be Honored at Annual Leadership Awards Ceremony
May 14, 2018
SAN LUIS OBISPO — Cal Poly’s Center for Leadership will recognize the largest class of students to complete its Emerging Leaders Series in a ceremony from 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, May 16, in Chumash Auditorium on campus.
The event showcases the third annual Leadership and Engagement Achievements of Distinction (LEAD) Awards and recognizes outstanding leadership and service contributions by members of the Cal Poly community.
Student-Run ‘Succulentopia’ Plant Sale to Be Held May 11-12 at Cal Poly
May 7, 2018
SAN LUIS OBISPO — More than 75 varieties of succulents will be available at Cal Poly’s “Succulentopia” plant sale from 4 to 7 p.m. Friday, May 11, and 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, May 12, at the Horticulture Unit near the Poly Plant Shop.
More than 1,200 plants will be available for purchase. Five students are involved in the student-run project, one of several such hands-on experiences offered by the Horticulture and Crop Science Department in the university’s College of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Sciences.
Cal Poly Symphony and Choirs to Present Maurice Duruflé’s ‘Requiem’ and other French Masterworks on June 3
May 3, 2018
SAN LUIS OBISPO — The Cal Poly Symphony and Cal Poly Choirs will perform Maurice Duruflé’s “Requiem” and other masterworks by French composers at 3 p.m. Sunday, June 3, in Harman Hall in the Performing Arts Center’s Christopher Cohan Center.
“The concert will open with a study in orchestral contrast — Camille Saint-Saëns’ energetic and menacing ‘Dance Macabre,’ and Maurice Ravel’s elegant ‘Pavane pour une infante défunte,’” Cal Poly Symphony Conductor David Arrivée said.
Cal Poly Team Excels in North American Intercollegiate Dairy Challenge
May 3, 2018
SAN LUIS OBISPO — The Cal Poly Dairy Challenge Team earned first place at the 17th annual North American Intercollegiate Dairy Challenge, held April 12-14 in Visalia, California. The win marks the fourth time in five years that Cal Poly has won the Dairy Challenge Platinum Award.
The students assessed all aspects of a working dairy farm and developed a farm analysis that included a list of recommendations related to facilities, nutrition, financials, reproduction and animal health. The Cal Poly team ranked first in its division among eight teams. In all, 235 students from 28 states representing the top animal science and dairy programs in the U.S. and Canada competed at the event.