California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo
San Luis Obispo, CA·Public
7 labs on PI Pages. It spends $38M a year on research.
- Students
- 23,829: 22,726 undergraduates, 1,103 graduate
- Faculty
- 931 full-time
- Campus
- Primarily residential
Labs here
Jane Lehr
Education Research
Test whether scholarship program activities grow transfer students' social networks, resilience, confidence and sense of belonging, using social network analysis, surveys and qualitative interviews.
Elizabeth Minor
Social Science
Reconstruct how an ancient community adjusted agriculture, animal husbandry, craft production and trade as water resources declined, using settlement archaeology and analysis of plant and animal remains.
Clinton Francis
Ecology & Evolution
Test whether noise and light pollution consistently favor a similar set of traits across six songbird species that differ in life history and tolerance of humans.
Katharine Watts
Biochemistry
Identify the role of individual genes in TLN-05220 biosynthesis by making gene knockouts in the wild-type bacterium that naturally produces this Echinosporamicin-type antibiotic.
Elizabeth Jeffery
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Obtain follow-up spectra of star-forming galaxies in known supercluster filaments, and compare their stellar ages, colors and redshifts with estimates from Rubin images alone; use the spectra to compute how long galaxies take to fall into clusters.
Where its research money goes
A year of research spending, from the NSF survey every research university fills in.