Recent News
Cal Poly Journalism Students Win Mark Twain Award
Jul 8, 2013
Cal Poly broadcast journalism students Ed Zuchelli and Lindsay Macleod were awarded the Mark Twain Award from the Associated Press Television and Radio Association in the Student TV category Best General News.
Wine and Viticulture Undergraduate Wins Academy of American Poets Award
May 21, 2013
Well-known Los Angeles poet Suzanne Lummis has chosen Wine and Viticulture undergraduate Madeleine Mori (Milbrae) as winner of Cal Poly’s 2013 Academy of American Poets Contest. Mori will receive a $100 award from the Academy for her poem “Ten Cents.”
Bernard Duffy, Communication Studies Professor and Dept. Chair, Selected For Distinguished Scholar Award
May 9, 2013
Communication Studies Professor and Department Chair, Bernard K. Duffy, is one of two Cal Poly Professors selected by the Academic Senate to receive the 2013 Distinguished Scholarship Award. Duffy, along with Professor Lanny Griffin (Biomedical & General Engineering) will be honored during Fall Quarter 2013.
Patricia M. Troxel, English Dept. 1956-2013
May 7, 2013
Patricia M. Troxel, highly respected and dearly loved artist, teacher and friend, died Sunday, April 21, 2013 at the culmination of a fierce four-year-plus battle with breast cancer.
English Student Julia Barabas chosen as Inaugural Winner
May 6, 2013
The English Department is pleased to announce that Julia Barabas was chosen as the inaugural winner of the department's American Scholar Prize. She will be presented with her award at the English Department Commencement Ceremony on Sunday, June 16.
Teaching Assistance Program in France Chooses Two Students from the CLA
May 6, 2013
Congratulations to Christopher Hughes (MLL '13, Linguistics minor) and Paige Smith (ENGL '13, French minor). Both soon-to-be Cal Poly graduates have been selected to teach in France for the next academic year through the Teaching Assistant Program in France. Smith's assignment will be in Tours and Hughes' will be in Besançon.
Cal Poly LGBTQIA Faculty Staff Association Receives Grant From SLO County Community Foundation
May 6, 2013
Grant will help support roundtable discussions and educational presentations by Dr. David Halperin on "gay counter-acculturation"
The Cal Poly LGBTQIA Faculty Staff Association has received a $1,000 grant from the San Luis Obispo Community Foundation (SLOCCF). This grant will be used to help support a series of roundtable discussions of Dr. David Halperin's book, How To Be Gay as well as to help host educational presentations on gay counter-acculturation by Dr. Halperin on the Cal Poly campus on 14-15 October 2013.
Cal Poly History Alumna Maria Quintana, named Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellow
Apr 30, 2013
The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation is pleased to announce that Cal Poly alumna Maria Quintana has been named a 2013 Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellow.
History Lecturer Kathleen Cairns Publishes Fourth Book
Apr 17, 2013
Kathleen A. Cairns, history lecturer at Cal Poly, has just published her fourth book, "Proof of Guilt: Barbara Graham and the Politics of Executing Women in America" through University of Nebraska Press. The book uses Graham's case as a touchstone to explore the anti-death penalty movement of the late 1950s and '60s. A "femme fatale" during her 1953 Los Angeles murder trial, Graham had morphed into the victim of a punitive and arbitrary justice system by the time of her 1955 execution at San Quentin.
2013 Landwehr Creative Writing Contest Winners Announced
Apr 5, 2013
Cal Poly’s English Department is proud to announce that English majors Whitney Lenet of Cayucos and Ian Delaney of Walnut Creek have won the 2013 Al Landwehr Creative Writing Contest.