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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.

Rose Float Design Chair Saira Mapes

How Rose Float Design Chair Saira Mapes Took Chances and Became a Leader

Making the Cut

Business student Nate Mirizzi competes with the Cal Poly Loggers, a co-ed team showcasing traditional forestry skills like axe chopping, tree climbing, and sawing.

The Search for Surf -- and Camaraderie

A business administration major with a finance concentration, Jackson Prudhon said he was able to create the Mustang Surf Club thanks to the William L. Chillingworth Scholarship he received.

Business Students Explore Entrepreneurships for Former Prisoners, Spotify Algorithms, Leveraged Buyouts and More During Second SURP

Michelle Jenkins thinks the subjects of her summer research project deserve a second chance – despite being convicted felons.

Latinx Alumni Share Experiences, Advice During National Hispanic Heritage Month

For National Hispanic Heritage Month, Student Services invited Latinx alumni to share their college experiences and advice for current and future underrepresented students.

Blues Revival: Marketing Alumnus Adam Stowe Brought Stability Back to San Luis Obispo Baseball

Adam Stowe (Marketing, ’97) became general manager of the struggling San Luis Obispo Blues baseball team in 2012. Now profits accompany larger crowds eager to enjoy the familiar sights and sounds of a beloved summer sport.

Addressing Economic Inequality

Carlos Noe Saavedra Took His Economics Degree to London to Explore Cryptocurrency as a More Inclusionary Monetary System

Journey to Cal Poly: An Outstanding Grad Shares Her Leadership Story

Caroline Lidster graduates with magna cum laude honors and nine quarters on the Dean’s List