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A small satellite built at a Central Coast university is now in orbit thanks to a cutting edge experimental launch involving a jumbo jet and a rocket.  Virgin Orbit used a modified 747 and a specially built rocket to put ten small satellites into a low earth orbit Sunday.

A new project is trying to give voices to underrepresented communities on the Central Coast.

Some faculty and staff members at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo established what they are calling the Central Coast Public Humanities Collaborative.

Two university campuses on the Central and South Coasts will be sticking with online classes for the entire academic year which is now underway.   The Cal State University system has announced that due to coronavirus safety concerns, classes will be only be offered online through the end of the 2020-2021 academic year.  The 23 campuses had been hoping to return to in-person instruction in January.

A Central Coast university is going to require all students living on campus to get a COVID-19 test 72 hours before arriving at school.

Cal Poly San Luis Obispo is opening its housing facilities to about 5100 students for its fall quarter, which begins September 14th.  Students will be housed by themselves, without roommates.  Most of the students living on campus will be first year students.  They are encouraging students who live off campus to get tested, but aren’t requiring it.

A Central Coast University received a federal grant intended to advance earthquake education, and research as it applies to buildings.

Cal Poly San Luis Obispo is getting $340,000 from the National Science Foundation to buy equipment which will improve the ability to assess how structures are impacted by quakes.

The governing body for college athletics has handed down stiff penalties to a Central Coast university for the way it handled stipends for some student-athletes.

A NCAA committee found that between 2012 and 2015, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo violated rules over stipends for books.  The investigation concluded that instead of covering the actual cost of materials, Cal Poly provided blanket $800 cash stipends.

A float built by teams from the two Cal Poly campuses in California won a special honor as part of the 2020 Rose Parade.  The float, named “Aquatic Aspirations” received the "Director Award" for outstanding artistic design and use of floral and non-floral materials.

The Rose Parade is just a few weeks away, and a team of volunteers working on a Central Coast university’s float got some big news about it. The Cal Poly Float will for the first time be almost at the beginning of the parade. It will be the fourth element in the 2020 parade, and the second float. It means it will get a lot of attention from the more than 60 million people watching the parade on TV around the world.