Cal Poly SLO University Honors Program

Our Spring Quarter contest is here! Send your photos to [email protected] by May 21st for a chance to win prizes and be featured on our social media. There will be winners in each category, and we have a special category of 'Heart-themed photos' that we will be sending to Jack's Helping Hand to display.No limit to the number of photos you can submit!

Now that finals are coming to a close, we wanted to extend a special congratulations to all of our Honors Winter graduates. Thank you for being such an integral part to our program and wishing you all the best in the future!

Charles Gibbons (he/him) is an Environmental Management and Production major, and his senior project group has been working to draft an Environmental Impact Report (EIR) for a hotel development planned in Avila Beach. After his first year, he completed a summer of plant surveying in Kings Canyon National Park in the southern Sierra Nevada and fell in love with botanizing. Congrats Charlie!

Ali Bergquist (she/her) is a Psychology major with minors in Law and Development and Psychology. Her favorite Honors memories include playing Yahtzee in the office and taking HNRS 265 with Brett Bodemer. For her senior project, she is writing a lit review on the negative effects on minorities due to prejudice and discrimination within the police force--congrats Ali!

Brian Ebisuzaki (he/him) is a Kinesiology major with an Exercise Science Concentration and Psychology minor. He has spent 3 years as an RA, and some of his favorite memories include putting on events for his residents and all of the late night chats in the kitchen. For his senior project, he is conducting research to determine whether a bout of moderate treadmill exercise resulted in a change in executive function or levels of stress hormones in preadolescent children. Congrats Brian!