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what Cal Poly grads are up to in the world of work
and the news. One Cal Poly grad checks in from the
White House; a nutrition grad is named Massachusetts
State Young Nutritionist of the Year; an ag alum is
California Agriculturalist of the Year...and more.
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Professor
and Architect Completes Successful
Year as Appointed Hasslein Chair
Last fall when Nick Watry was named the inaugural
recipient of the George Hasslein Endowed Chair for
Interdisciplinary Studies in Environmental Design,
his main goal was to bring real-life experiences to
the classroom and engage architecture and engineering
students in interdisciplinary studies. An architect,
engineer and founder of the Watry Design Group of
Redwood City, Watry is a 1964 Cal Poly architectural
engineering graduate who has spent the past 40 years
designing concrete buildings and parking structures.
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Calling
All Alumni, Art and Fish Lovers
Cal Poly is looking for a home for one of its newest
alumna: Polly Troutnic. Anyone
interested in living with Polly, a 5-foot, copper
trout sculpture, is encouraged to make a bid for her
Aug. 27 as part of San Luis Obispo's 'Trout About
Downtown' public art fund-raiser. Proceeds from the
auction of the trout will go to the Prado Day Center,
a local daytime service center for the homeless and
hungry in San Luis Obispo. Polly was one of 21 five-foot
steelhead trout sculptures installed for display downtown
in April. However, due to recent episodes of vicious
trout poaching in downtown San Luis Obispo, she will
not return to downtown until just before the August
auction. After she escaped from poachers with a few
bumps and scratches recently, the university took
her into protective custody.
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News
Architecture
and Landscape Architecture
Named Best
Programs in
the West
A national poll of practicing architects has ranked
Cal Poly's undergraduate architecture program as one
of the best in the United States at producing “graduates
most prepared for real-world practice.” For
the first time, a separate ranking for landscape architecture
education was added and Cal Poly's program ranked
first in the western United States. The survey, conducted
for the architecture and engineering journal DesignIntelligence
rated Cal Poly's program fourth in the nation among
bachelor of architecture degree programs, behind only
Cornell University, University of Cincinnati, and
Rice University.
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Cal
Poly Spring Commencement 2005 In Photos
More than 3,600 students graduated
in two ceremonies at Cal Poly’s 2005 Spring
Commencement June 11. William
H. “Bill” Swanson, chairman and chief
executive officer of Raytheon, received an honorary
degree and addressed graduates and a packed stadium
at the morning ceremony before some 1,916 degree candidates
from the colleges of Agriculture, Architecture and
Environmental Design, and Engineering. Swanson received
an honorary Doctor of Science degree at the ceremony,
which began under light fog in Mustang Stadium but
ended in sunshine. Also at the morning ceremony, Cal
Poly alumnus Richard J. O’Neill was presented
with the President’s Medal of Excellence. The
weather had warmed and skies were sunny when California
Secretary of State Bruce McPherson delivered the keynote
remarks at the afternoon ceremony before an equally
packed stadium crowd. McPherson received an Honorary
Doctor of Humane Letters degree at the ceremony.
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Today's
Students
Rodeo
Team Rides to Victory in Wyoming
Cal Poly's Rodeo Team headed to the National Intercollegiate
Rodeo Finals in June in Wyoming. At the NIRA finals
in Casper, Cal Poly earned both the Men's and Women's
All Around champion spots, competing against students
from 62 universities. Cal Poly's Ben Londo, a construction
management major from Milton Freewater, Ore, took
first place in Men's All Around with 472.5 points.
Marcey Teixeira, an agricultural business student
from Santa Maria, took Women's All Around, with 190
points.The Cal Poly Men's Rodeo Team finished No.
2 in the nation, behind only Tarleton College in Texas.
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Ag
Engineering Students Take First Place in National
Competition
A team of Cal Poly students took first place in a
national competition sponsored by the American Society
for Agricultural Engineering. The annual competition
asks teams of college students to build a working
tractor a quarter of the size of a typical tractor
(a quarter-scale tractor). College teams must also
complete a written report on their entry and its designs,
make a sales presentation to professionals on their
tractor and its capabilities and uses, and compete
with their tractors in categories including maneuverability,
safety, and performance.
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Students
Earn First Place in Low-Income Housing Challenge
A
team of Cal Poly students won first place in a regional
design competition for their large-scale plans to
redevelop a low-income housing project in Paso Robles.
The team of four students from Cal Poly's Orfalea
College of Business and 13 students from the university's
College of Architecture and Environmental Design took
the top award in the Bank of America Low-Income Housing
Challenge regional competition in San Francisco.
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Cal
Poly Announces 2005 'Quest for the Best' Winners
Cal
Poly has announced the recipients of the 2005 Land
Family Quest for the Best Awards. The annual awards
recognize student leaders in each college who exemplify
core values of excellence, stewardship, collaboration,
integrity and community through academic achievement
and volunteerism. The
2005 recipient of the university-wide Quest for the
Best award is Mandi Bartleson of Fortuna, an agricultural
science major who was also the College of Agriculture
Quest for the Best award recipient.
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Faculty
& Staff
Cal
Poly Appoints CS Chair Kearns as New CIO
Cal
Poly President Warren J. Baker has announced the appointment
of Timothy J. Kearns, an associate professor and current
chair of the Computer Science Department at Cal Poly,
as the university’s new vice provost for information
technology and chief information officer. “Tim
is uniquely qualified for the position by bringing
the perspective and experiences acquired in both industry
and as a faculty member. He enjoys broad support within
the campus community,” President Baker said
in announcing the appointment. Interim Provost Robert
Detweiler said that Kearns will provide leadership
and strategic direction for the delivery of technology
services to meet the teaching and learning mission
of the university. Kearns will begin his duties on
Aug. 1.
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Professor
Makes Waves with Theory on Ancient Polynesians and
California's Chumash Indians
Cal
Poly Archaeology Professor Terry Jones is making waves
with his research into possible contact between ancient
Polynesians and California's Chumash Indians. Jones
co-authored an article with linguist Kathryn A. Klar
of UC Berkeley, set to be published in the July edition
of archaeological journal American Antiquity. Jones
and Klar's research and assertion that Polynesian
explorers reached North America nearly 1,000 years
before Columbus has reignited debate over the theory.
Read
about it in the San Francisco Chronicle
Professor
Publishes
on Positive Paranoia
Cal Poly English Professor John Hampsey isn’t
paranoid; people really are after him. They are after
him to speak about and sign copies of his groundbreaking
2004 book, “Paranoia and Contentment: A Personal
Essay on Western Thought,” which has received
such wide interest and critical acclaim that it has
nearly sold out of a second printing and will soon
be available in paperback. The book is the first to
view paranoia as a positive concept and to use it
as a cultural lens to reinterpret the Western tradition,
Hampsey said.
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University
Announces President's Diversity Award Winners for
2005
Cal Poly President Warren J. Baker recognized the
College of Science and Mathematics and the Career
Services as the recipients of the 2005 President's
Diversity Award. The College of Science and Mathematics
was honored for reaching out to underrepresented students
in California's public elementary, middle and high
schools. Thanks to funding from Joseph and Victoria
Cotchett and the Cotchett Foundation, the college
was able to send a "Chemistry Magic Show"
video to about 9,000 public schools in the state this
year.
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Coming
Up
Mozart
Festival Opening Night Concert in Cohan Center July
15
The
opening concert of the 2005 Mozart Festival begins
at 8 p.m. in the Performing Arts Center's Christopher
Cohan Center. Fans can also join Cal Poly Music Professor
Alyson McLamore for an engaging pre-concert discussion
from the stage. The 2005 Mozart Festival orchestra
will gather on the Central Coast from across the country.
This will be new Music Director Scott Yoo's inaugural
season. The opening night concert selections include
Mozart masterpieces and the intense, powerful drama
of Bruckner's Wagner Symphony. All are celebrations
of the German masters of the Classical and Romantic
eras.
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