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Drawn to Leadership: Creative Pursuits Helped Prepare Ashleigh Spragins to be ASI President and a Maritime Representative

A former engineering student, Spragins chose business for leadership and management opportunities.

How to Get on Track for Career Success

Ronda Beaman took her Leadership and Career Success class to the Aero Hangar to illustrate how the formula for success is about the sum of its parts.

Quick Pitch: Students Offer Their Startup Ideas During Annual Competition

The Elevator Pitch, put on by the Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship, features students from across campus "selling" their business ideas.

Lessons From the Dojo: How Martial Arts Helped Khushi Sharma Become a Leader

Once a shy child, the information systems student took on public roles a college ambassador, with Women in Business and her business fraternity

Focused on the Code: Startup Aims to Allow Developers More Time to Develop

Devscribe seeks to limit the tedious and repetitive task of creating accurate instructions for users.

Medication Management: Startup Seeks to Simplify Patient Prescription Schedules

One Fountain Health is creating a device designed to preserve independence for people juggling multiple prescriptions.

Pursuing Her Passions: Business Grad Anaïs Lohier Turns to Biological Data at Yale

Lohier, who studied at sea while at Cal Poly, also volunteers at a vintage French car race dedicated to her grandfather

A Seaweed Solution: Converting Ocean Waste into Food Packaging

Ecoplasticity’s seaweed-based coating is designed to replace the plastic coating inside takeout containers.

Catalyst for Creativity

Cal Poly Entrepreneurs Club Promotes Startups with Space, Resources and Community

Reaching for the Stars: How a Business Student Became a NASA Engineer

When asked what it is about space that he finds so intriguing, Jordan Ticktin’s face twists into an expression of genuine bewilderment.

Creative Sustainability

Cal Poly Team Gets Global Recognition for Innovative Packaging Design

Alumnus Carina Gaz Wins Prestigious Agricultural Trade Fellowship

Carina Gaz, a 2009 Orfalea College of Business graduate, was recently awarded the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Foreign Agricultural Service Diversity (FDFP) Fellowship.

Big Score

A Lifelong Football Fan Uses Her Analytics Master’s Degree to Land a Dream Job with the New York Jets

Cal Poly Team Takes Home Second Place, Rookie of the Year at Marine Energy Collegiate Competition

A Cal Poly team of business and engineering students earned Rookie of the Year and second place overall in its debut at the Department of Energy's Marine Energy Collegiate Competition.

Three Students Represent Orfalea College of Business During Tour of Statehouse

Three Orfalea College of Business students accompanied Cal Poly President Jeffrey D. Armstrong to Sacramento this month, where lawmakers honored them and other students for their accomplishments.