Marketing student founded Lucky Lucky Studios after surviving serious accident.
Dean’s Message
I am pleased to present this edition of Orfalea Business. This issue emphasizes some of the many ways our students have embraced Cal Poly’s Learn by Doing ethos and features our faculty expertise, alumni, diversity, and more.
If You Build It
If You Build It: Real Estate Initiative Combines Disciplines to Reflect Industry Process.
Empowering Work
The Summer Undergraduate Research Program pairs students with faculty mentors on relevant research.
Going Global
Finance professor Cyrus Ramezani regularly reminded his Orfalea College of Business team that they stood out.
Serving Up Success
Kimberley Bhunu took a giant leap coming to Cal Poly. The Harare, Zimbabwe, resident — who attended high school 7,000 miles from home in France — traveled halfway across the world to attend the Learn by Doing campus in 2018, sight-unseen, and play tennis for the NCAA team.
A Day for Celebration
A Day for Celebration
The Arredondo sisters, from left, Erica, Stephanie and Clarissa, pose for a portrait shortly before commencement. The sisters, whose ages range from 21 to 25, graduated from Cal Poly on the same weekend. (Photo: Jay Thompson)
August 4, 2023
The Arredondo family from Santa Maria had a busy graduation weekend at […]
Removing the Mask
As an undocumented child in Guadalupe, Calif, Yesenia Beas was afraid to tell friends or school staffers about her status, unsure whom she could trust.
Overtime
When All-American wrestler Dom Demas entered the transfer portal as an incoming graduate student, the University of Oklahoma standout immediately drew interest from several major collegiate athletics programs, including Arizona State, Illinois and Iowa.
Dressed for Success
Women in Business president uplifts peers while running boutique she co-founded