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Extra Credit Alumnus "Hoot" Gibson Named to Hall of Fame Cal Poly alum Robert "Hoot" in Sacramento. He was selected to CAL POLY Gibson (AERO '69) was recently speak in recognition of his distin­ • According to U.S. Department of named to the U.S. Astronaut Hall of guished career, national service and Education data, Cal Poly is among Fame at the commitment to higher education. the 'Top 100' colleges and in . His aerospace engineeri ng universities cited in Black Issues in The U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame education at Cal Poly enabled him to Higher Education that conferred the and U.S. Space Camp Training later design and build a new airplane most bachelor's degrees on Center is operated by the Mercury which set a world altitude record. minority students in 2001-2002. In Seven Foundation and the U.S. During the Vietnam conflict he flew rankings for awarding bachelor's Space Camp Foundation. It opened Navy fighter jets and provided air degrees in specific disciplines, Cal in 1990, and features personal cover for the evacuation of Saigon. Poly was sixth in engineer'ing. mementos and equipment donated His first NASA flight was in • The Christopher Reeve Paralysis by the Mercury and Gemini astro­ 1984 on the 10th Foundation awarded the Cal Poly nauts. The Astronaut Hall of Fame launch. His final mission came in Foundation and Kinesiology showcases each of the seven Mercury 1995, when he served as com­ Professor Kevin Taylor a $10,780 and 13 Gemini astro­ mander at the first docking with the Quality of Life Grant to develop a nauts, features an honor roll of Russian space station Mir. 'solo quad-conversion' project. As all astronauts who have flown "There 1was, a former American part of Cal Poly's Adapted Paddling missions, and devotes a section to fighter pilot, opening the hatch and Program, Taylor and Mechanical flights that followed the Mercury offering my hand to a former Russian Engineering Professor Frank Owen and Gemini missions. MiG pilot," said Gibson. "It has and their students will modify a Gibson was named to the Hall been suggested that this gesture of canoe and kayak for individuals of Fame in a June 21 ceremony cooperation between the United with quadraplegia to use 'sip and along with Daniel Brandenstein, States and the Soviet Union marked puff controls. and (the the end of the Cold War. first American woman in space). "So," he smiled, "I tell people • At the inaugural Cal Poly Earlier this year, Gibson deliv­ that it was my Cal Poly education Entrepreneurial Leadership Awards ered the keynote address at the that prepared me to go out and help ceremony, Congresswoman Lois annual CSU Alumni Legislative Day end the Cold War." Capps presented a Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition to the orfalea College of Business for its 'outstanding and invaluable service to the community' in creating the awards. Students in a 'Profiles in Entrepreneurship' course taught by Business Professor William Pendergast researched local companies and organized the awards for 12 Central Coast entrepreneurs. • A Cal Poly elementary schools art education outreach program has received national recognition and will become a partner in a three-year program to assess the influence of the arts on the academic achievement of 818 students from third through fifth grade.

Gibson (far lefl) and crew Photo courtesy NASA

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• Horticulture and Crop Science Department Head Jennifer Ryder Fox and three colleagues received The Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award from the Environmental Protection Agency for developing Serenade, a biofungicide that combats crop mildew but is harmless to benefi­ cial insects and can be used in organic and traditional farming. • Associate Engineering Dean Paul E. Rainey was named a Fellow Member of the American Society for Engineering Education and recognized for outstanding contributions to the society. "Because the ASEE allows engineer­ ing educators from allover the country to share ideas on current teaching methods and learn about new eqUipment: said Rainey, "the work of the society fits in perfectly with what we do here at Cal Poly: • The California State Grange Keynote speaker Robert Reich (center) with International Career Conference participants Association named a schol'arship Photo courtesy Ortalea College of Business in honor of recently retired Cal Poly Agricultural Education and Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich Communication Professor Joe Gives Keynote Talk at 2003 Career Conference Sabol. Sabol served as director of outreach for the College of Robert Reich, U.S. secretary of Adaptation, and Building a Agriculture, developed the National labor during President Clinton's first Global Brand. Agricultural Ambassadors Confer­ term in offICe, was the keynote Approximately 35 companies ence to convene students from 45 speaker at Cal Poly's Orfalea College were represented during the universities in 20 states, and of Business 2003 International recruiting session that followed, helped build International Career Conference. including Dioptics, Lockheed agricultural programs in Mexico, After introductions by ICC Manin, Marques Brothers Interna­ Nigeria and Costa Rica. UC Davis Executive Director Whitney Market tional, NASA, Northrop Grumman recognized his efforts with its 2002 and Orfalea College of Business Corporation, E&G Gallo, Enterprise Award of Distinction. Associate Dean Doug Cerf, Reich Rent-A-Car, FBI, 7-Eleven, Smuckers, • Horticulture and Crop Science spoke about international business and Wallace. Professor Virginia Walter has been and how the ever-changing external A record number of participants ­ named a National Fellow by the environment affects people's lives 400 - attended this year's Interna­ national floriculture scholastic and careers. tional Career Conference. Many society, Pi Alpha Xi (PAX). Walter After Reich's speech, attendees of these were students from Cal Poly, coached student flower judging were given the opportunity to attend but the public and students from teams to national championships two of eight offered workshops, California and as far away as Arizona in 1993, 1994, 1995, 1999, 2000, including Women in International and Missouri also registered. 2002 and 2003. Business, Surviving the Corporate For more information about Jungle, Market-Driven Conservation, next year's International Career Technology as a Force in Interna­ Conference, contact Chris Carr at tional Business, Entrepreneurs Go 805/756-2657 or [email protected]. Global, Doing Business in Latin The International Career Conference America, Expatriation and Cultural Web site is www.icc.calpoly.edu.

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Imagination Takes Wing in Aerospace Engineering Classes Extra Credit 'Ultimately what separated the Wrights from their more illustrious rillals was their • Dairy Science Professors Rafael Wyo. He was awarded a $6,500 particular aptitude for learning how to do a Jimenez-Flores and Ed Jaster were scholarship and a $35,000 diffiCUlt thing. ' honored at the American Dairy sponsorship for competition next - from To Conquer the Air: The Wright Science Association's 2003 Annual year on the Professional Rodeo Brothers and the Great Race for Flight Meeting. Jimenez-Flores won the Cowboy Association circuit. He 2003 Milk Industry Teaching was one of 12 Cal Poly Rodeo Award for his classroom teaching, Team members to make the One hundred years after the his coaching of university dairy final competition. Wright Brothers soared over the North products judging teams and his Carolina sand dunes in a powered flying • Graphic Communication mentoring of senior undergraduate machine, 13 Cal Poly aerospace engi­ students won six out of seven students and their research projects. neering students are sharing the same prizes in the 2003 Bookbuilders Jaster, nationally known for his spirit of discovery by building an aircraft West book design competition in research in dairy cattle nutrition, of their own. San Francisco. Awards were was elected National Advisor to the The students are enrolled in AERO given based on layout, typogra­ Student Affiliate Division of ADSA. 565 and 571, courses funded by phy and cover designs of a $15,000 from student academic fees. • The American Society of AgricUl­ classic book. Industry profession­ The courses focus on the construction tural Engineers presented Cal Poly als judged entries on creativity, of an RAY-7 single-engine airplane in a professor emeritus John l. Merriam success in meeting design shop near the San Luis Obispo airport. with the 2003 Kishida International objectives, and presentation. Unlike the Wrights, who flew their Award for his contributions to the • A Cal Poly team of four students wooden, cloth-covered aircraft up to irrigation industry, with special took third place in Walt Disney recognition for his work with 852 feet on December 17,1903, the Imagineerings 2003 Imagi­ students' plane, made of state-of-the-art developing nations, including Nations Design Competition. designing and supervising metals and plastic composites, will never The group was one of only four get off the ground. construction of flexible supply student teams from around the "To get the course started, we had pipeline demonstrations and world selected to make a final to state it was strictly 'not for flight,''' production projects in Sri Lanka, presentation of their creative says AERO Chair Dan Biezard. ''The plan India, Pakistan and Egypt. Merriam proposal for a "cutting-edge is to have at least one formal class and his family established a variety entertainment center" and section per year, with students working of irrigation management and "state-of-the-art musical extrava­ year-round on senior projects related to education endowments and ganza" on San Francisco Bay. the aircraft." founded the Merriam Irrigation The Cal Poly competitors each Biezard, who says the RAY-7 may Education Foundation. received a $1,000 prize, and their never be finished, adds, "The class proposal is now on display at was offered at student request to STUDENTS Disney Imagineering headquarters provide a 'hands-on' experience in the • Anthony l. DeFont, a Cal Poly in Burbank. best tradition of the Aerospace Engi neer­ mechanical engineering student, is ing Department." among six students who received • A team of Cal Poly engineering This is not the first time Cal Poly The California State University's students drove off with two students have emulated the Wrights. 2003-2004 William R. Hearst/CSU awards from Future-Truck 2003, Students built a six-passenger replica of Trustees' Award for Outstanding a national student competition Charles Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis in Achievement. Selection for the sponsored by the Ford Motor Co. 1928, only a year after the Cal Poly award is based on financial need, Competing against 14 other Aeronautical Engineering Department superior academic performance, university teams, Cal Poly won took flight. It was believed to be the first outstanding volunteer service and second place and $750 in the aircraft ever constructed by students in the character to overcome profound category Most Innovative Use of the United States. personal challenges. Virtual Instrumentation and was named Most Improved Team. - Dennis Steers • Jesse Segura won the National College of Engineering Intercollegiate Rodeo Association's 2003 National All-Around Cowboy title during the June finals in Casper,

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Cal Poly Presents Seventh Annual President's Diversity Awards , Extra Credit The annual President's Diversity Awards recognize contributions to FACULTY creating and supporting campus • Landscape architecture lecturer diversity. At this year's ceremony, Joseph Ragsdale was named one of President Warren j. Baker commented 31 winners of the 107th annual that the growing number and quality Rome Prize Competition of the of nominations signify Cal Poly's American Academy In Rome. He won increasing commitment to diversity. the prestigious design and arts Through the continued good award for a proposal to study the work of the University Diversity relationship between the material Enhancement Council, chaired by surfaces that make up the city of College of Liberal Arts Dean Harry Rome and the 'source landscapes' of Hellenbrand, diversity issues are those materials - industrial sites, assuming a place of growing promi­ quarries and working communities. nence in the university's ongoing • Spring commencement ceremonies conversation about goals and values, honored three Cal Poly professors Baker said. Cal Poly President Wan-en]. Baker preseni5 the President's Diversity Award plaque to with the Distinguished Teaching Two winners share this year's Donna Davis, coordinator of the Connections Award, the univerSity'S highest award, which includes $1,000 for for Academic Success program. teaching honor. Biological Sciences each program: Photo by Jeff Greene Professor Alvin De Jong, Speech • Connections for Academic Communication Professor Bernard Success, a program that has partnered to underwrite the international Duffy, and Materials Engineering with colleges, Admissions and the research experience of 10 students Department Chair Unda Vanasupa University Diversity Enhancement annually were commended for exceeding Council to advise and help retain The outstanding contributions of students' expectations and building hundreds of diverse students these two programs will be memorial­ confidence with challenging courses • The Minority International ized on a perpetual plaque that and caring attitudes. Research Access Program, which has honors their contributions and those brought over $1.1 million to campus of past and future awardees. • Accounting Professor Jack Robison was selected to receive the 2003 Cal Poly College of Agriculture, Canada's University of Guelph Faculty Advisor Award for outstand­ Establish AgriCUltural Exchange Program ing achievement by a faCUlty member in the area of student advising. Cal Poly's College of Agriculture both colleges, said Howard. Cal • Construction Management and the Ontario Agricultural College of Poly students can take any Guelph Professor Barry Jones has been the University ofGuelph in Canada courses, including organic agricul­ named a Fellow in the American have teamed up to offer an exchange ture and food science - two areas in Society of Civil Engineers and the program for students and faculty. which the University of Guelph is a United Kingdom's Chartered The University of Guelph is the North American leader - and Institute of Building, He was also premier agricultural research university students from Guelph wiIl be able admitted to the Americas Registry of of Canada, said Cal Poly Agribusiness to take advantage of Cal Poly's Outstanding Professionals. Professor Wayne Howard, who taught strong programs in agribusiness there for 12 years. The historic univer­ management, dairy management, • Agribusiness Professor David sity outside Toronto was originally irrigation and pest management, Schaffner has been appointed to the founded as an agricultural college in and viticulture. National Food and Agribusiness Management Education Commis­ 1874, and includes a school of Cal Poly's Landscape Architecture veterinary medicine. Department in the College of sion, created by the U.S. Department Beginning this fall, up to six Architecture and Environmental of AgriCUlture to conduct a compre­ students per term from each campus Design already has an exchange hensive review of food and can participate in the exchange, program with Guelph's Ontario agribusiness management programs, taking courses for credit toward their Agricultural College. examine the human resource needs degrees. The universities are also For more information about of agribusiness, and propose participating in a faculty exchange Guelph and Cal Poly, visit recommendations to aid colleges program for agriculture professors. www.uoguelph.ca or www.calpoly.edu, and universities in meeting the changing needs of the marketplace. The exchange program will or contact Wayne Howard at strengthen agricultural programs at [email protected].

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