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An artist's rendering of the 2025 Rose Float, "Lakeside Laughs," which features a colorful Loch Ness Monster, puffins, a Highland cow and a Westie terrier in a boat.

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Pack Your Bagpipes: Design for Rose Float's 76th Entry Features Loch Ness Monster

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A professor and a student look on as another student wears a virtual reality headset.

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$60 Million Gift to Noyce School of Computing Helps Students Solve 'Challenges of Tomorrow'

A professor stands with a student who is repairing a keyboard at a desk

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Engineers Embrace Repair Culture as New Law Takes Shape in California

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 professor in a blue shirt and cowboy hat inspects a CubeSat while a student in a green shirt looks on.

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Cal Poly’s Game-Changing CubeSats Inducted into the Space Technology Hall of Fame

An over-the-shoulder view of a laptop with the Naloxone Now app open on the screen and hands typing on the keyboard

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Students Design Web App with DX Hub and SLO County to Prevent Opioid Overdose Deaths

Three students wear green graduation robes and hats and look at the camera during fall commencement.

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Cal Poly Students — Including Dreamers — Can Soon Earn Cash for Education Through State Service Program

Desiree Nunes wears a black blazer while standing on the steps of the United States Capitol

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Views from the Hill: A Student Recaps Her Panetta Internship

A Rose Parade float covered in flowers featuring cows with jetpacks drives down a sunny street with a Rose Parades sign behind it

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Cal Poly Float Wins Animation Award at 2022 Rose Parade®

Hands in silhouette place a strip of paper into a clear plastic vial

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Cal Poly-Developed COVID-19 Saliva Testing Technology Will be Brought to Market

A nursing home damaged by the Camp Fire in Paradise.

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Cal Poly Project Could Help Communities Recover from Wildfires — Using AI

Three women wearing masks stand around white plastic tanks filled with water and Pismo clams.

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Keep Clam and Carry On: Researchers Work to Bring Back a Pismo Tradition