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Homecoming 2006 Set for Oct. 20-22
Make
sure to save the date: Homecoming 2006 is set for
Friday, Oct. 20, through Sunday, Oct. 22. The Mustang
football team will take on South Dakota State in the
big game Oct. 21. The Cal Poly Alumni Association
will also hold its Grand Reunion for the members of
the Class of 1956 and all preceding classes. Watch
Cal Poly Update for coming details on Homecoming 2006.
Alumna
earns multiple 'Teacher of the Year' honors
A
Cal Poly alumna from Buellton has earned state and
national awards for her classroom teaching. Alumna
Tina McEnroe was named California's "2005 Outstanding
Educator of the Year" by the California Foundation
for Agriculture in the Classroom. As California's
representative, she went on to receive the United
States Department of Agriculture's 2005 Excellence
in Teaching about Agriculture Award. The agency's
highest teaching award, it is given annually to five
teachers in the United States. She's not the only
alum who made headlines recently. Click on the link
below to find out what some more of your classmates
are up to.
More
alumni in the news...
There's
still time to tour Greece with CPAA
Explore the renowned Greek Islands of Aegina and Hydra,
and visit the world heritage sites of Epidauros, Mycenae,
Athens and the Acropolis with fellow Cal Poly alumni
in May. The trip includes a lecture series presented
by local experts exploring classical Greece, Greek
art, and contemporary Greece. Cost is $3,495 and includes
airfare, accommodations, excursions, and meals. A
"land only" package of $2,095 is also available.
For details contact Rosey Parks, associate director,
Alumni Relations, at (805) 756-5747 or rparks@calpoly.edu.
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University News
Men's,
Women's Basketball Teams prepare for Big West tournament
It's
time for March Madness! Cal Poly's men's and women's
basketball teams are headed to the Big West Conference.
The men's team currently sits in the top half and
in fourth place with a 7-7 conference record as they
prepare for the Big West Conference Basketball Tournament
scheduled for March 8-11 at the Anaheim Convention
Center. The Mustangs received a bye in the first round
of play and secured the No. 4 seed in the Big West
Conference. The Mustangs will play the winner and
highest seeded team from the UC Santa Barbara (No.
5) vs. UC Riverside (No. 8) game or Cal State Fullerton
(No. 6) vs. Cal State Northridge (No. 7) game. The
game will also be carried live on radio and the Internet.
(Internet at GoPoly.com).
If the Mustangs advance to the semifinals, they would
face either Pacific (No. 1 seed) or UC Irvine (No.
2 seed) on March 10. The women's team, which is currently
in fifth place with a 7-7 conference record, plays
in the first round on Wednesday, March 8.
Visit GoPoly.com
for more details
Students
approve $10 fee increase
for Instructionally Related Activities
Cal Poly students voted by a 73 percent margin to
approve a $10 Instructionally Related Activities fee
increase in a campus referendum in February. An Instructionally
Related Activity is an out-of-class experience that
provides enrichment to students and others. IRA-funded
programs include the Cal Poly Symphony Orchestra,
Cal Poly Jazz Band, Cal Poly Logging Team, The Mustang
Daily student newspaper, CPTV, the Human Powered Vehicle
team, and other performing arts and education-related
student activity groups on campus. In all, some 5,000
students participate directly in 62 IRA programs every
year, and many more see their performances or works.
The favorable vote was forwarded to President Warren
J. Baker as a recommendation for the fee increase.
With his approval, the fee increase will be effective
in Fall 2006.
Read the Mustang
Daily story
Cal
Poly Launches Tool to Serve Spanish-Speaking Prospective
Students
Cal
Poly’s Admissions and Recruitment office has
achieved another first. The university has launched
an online tool that allows Spanish-speaking prospective
students to ask questions and receive answers in Spanish
directly from the Web. The university teamed with
Hobson's, an international provider of education and
recruitment information, to provide “Respuestas
EMT,” a program endorsed by the Hispanic Association
of Colleges and Universities.
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Entrepreneur
Sidney Harman,
U.S. Rep Jane Harman address Cal Poly
"Bring
me some poets for managers,” declared Sidney
Harman, the man credited with building the entire
high-fidelity audio industry. “When you combine
the arts with science, you get better scientists and
more creative artists,” he said. Harman, for
whom Harman Hall in the Christopher Cohan Center is
named, was joined by his wife, U.S. Rep Jane Harman,
(D-Venice) in a morning appearance at Cal Poly in
February. Jane Harman is the ranking Democrat on the
House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and
a member of the Homeland Security Committee. The couple
spoke to a group of faculty, students, staff and community
members. Along with some good-natured bantering while
sharing the stage, they provided unique insights on
the nexus of governance, arts, business and technology.
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Irrigation
Training and Research Center receives federal award
Cal Poly’s Irrigation Training and Research
Center has been recognized by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
for helping to improve and promote water conservation
and reclamation throughout the West. Professor and
ITRC Director Stuart Styles received the Commissioner’s
Water Conservation Award at the bureau’s Mid-Pacific
Region Water User’s Conference in January. The
award recognizes the ITRC for providing technical
assistance and formal training classes to the bureau
and the region for the past 10 years. The ITRC has
provided training and consulting services to more
than 100 water districts and contract water providers
over the past decade.
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Today's Students
Cal
Poly Hispanic Engineers win national design competition
— again
For the fourth straight year, Cal Poly’s
student chapter of the Society of Hispanic Professional
Engineers (SHPE) has earned first place in a national
design competition. Cal
Poly teams finished first, third and fourth in the
student chapter design contest at the SHPE National
Technical Career Conference in Orlando, Fla., in January.
Cal Poly team members were mechanical engineering
students Frank Lopez from Bakersfield and Flavio Acosta
from Santa Paula; business student Daisy Cisneros
from Santa Maria; electrical engineering students
Bruce Lozano and Enrique Quiutero, both from Bakersfield;
and Ruben Rodriguez from Santa Paula. The team won
for its design for a Sound-Activated Baby Mobile.
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Cal
Poly students are tops again
at national builders competition
Cal
Poly’s construction management team topped 34
other universities to earn first place for the second
year in a row at the National Association of Homebuilders
Student Competition in Orlando, Fla. The “Polytex”
team from the College of Architecture and Environmental
Design spent more than 300 hours developing the winning
proposal for a 10-acre, 175-unit condominium project
of 28 buildings in Addison, Texas.
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Cal
Poly study-abroad students in Torino involved at Winter
Olympics
Four
Cal Poly students participating in study-abroad programs
this quarter experienced the Winter Olympic Games
in Torino, Italy, up close. Three of them worked at
the games. Cal Poly business students Tracy Clarke,
Kevin Foley, Katie Grachen and David Lacampagne are
all in Italy attending the University of Torino as
part of their studies in business administration and
business marketing. The campus is two blocks from
the areas set up to house the Olympic Village and
Media Village, and all students had a two-week break
during the games to experience the event. Clarke worked
for NBC at the hockey games, Foley worked for the
Canadian teams, and Lacampagne worked as a volunteer
driver for U.S. Olympic Committee members.
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Society
of Women Engineers selects outstanding students
Cal Poly's Society
of Women Engineers, in cooperation with Hewlett-Packard,
has chosen five of its members to receive the Outstanding
Women in Engineering and Technology award. Chosen
from 15 nominees, the winners are: Eileen Mick, master’s
student in civil and environmental engineering; Jennifer
Overgaag, computer engineering senior; Andrea Ramirez,
master’s student in civil and environmental
engineering; Betsy Sale, civil engineering senior;
and Teresa Su, electrical engineering senior.
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Business
students take first place at Honda Marketing competition
A
team of seven Cal Poly undergraduate marketing students
were awarded first place in a research program competition
sponsored by EdVenture Partners, Honda North America,
and Honda's ad agency, RPA. The Cal Poly team shared
first place honors with a team of graduate students
from San Diego State University. Ten California schools
participated in the competition.
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Faculty & Staff
President
chairs CSU math and science summit
President Baker chaired the CSU's recent Math and
Science Teacher Summit at the Pacific Palms Conference
Center in Industry Hills. In addition to President
Baker, CSU presidents from Fullerton, Northridge,
Los Angeles, San Diego, Channel Islands, Fresno and
Humboldt also presented perspectives on the central
issues, challenges and solutions for significantly
expanding the math and science teacher pipeline. The
CSU has committed to doubling the production of math
and science teachers by 2010. The Higher Education
compact between Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, the CSU
and the University of California identified the critical
shortage of K-12 math and science teachers as a major
priority. The summit is intended to lay the groundwork
to address the need to recruit and train more and
better-prepared math and science teachers.
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Two
Research Scholars named for new program
Cal
Poly has named two Research Scholars in Residence
as the first appointees in a new university program
designed to encourage and support faculty research
and professional development. USC Professor Emeritus
George Bekey and Georgia Institute of Technology Professor
Emeritus Theodore Hill will assist Cal Poly faculty
and staff with research, project development, grant-writing,
scholarly publications and interdisciplinary concept
development. They will also serve as mentors for students
in the University Honors Program and help integrate
the Honors Program into research projects.
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Coming up
March
10 jazz concert to feature pioneering woman sax player
The first woman to play in one of the world’s
greatest big bands, the Stan Kenton Big Band, will
headline Cal Poly's annual Just Jazz concert at 8
p.m., Friday, March 10, in Cal Poly’s Spanos
Theatre. Alto saxophonist Mary Fettig will perform
with the University Jazz Band #1 in selections arranged
by Stan Kenton, Charles Mingus, Quincy Jones, and
Cole Porter. Also appearing will be the University
Jazz Band #2 and two jazz combos. All bands are led
by Cal Poly Jazz Studies Director Paul Rinzler. Fettig
has toured with Marian McPartland, Tito Puente and
Joe Henderson, and has performed at the Concord, San
Francisco, Monterey, Playboy, Hollywood Bowl, Chicago,
Detroit, Buffalo, Montreaux and North Sea jazz festivals
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Cal
Poly Opera Workshop presents
'Dido and Aeneas' March 31, April 1
The Cal Poly Music Department presents the opera "Dido
and Aeneas" Friday and Saturday, March 31 and
April 1 in the Alex and Faye Spanos Theatre. Curtain
time is 7:30 p.m. March 31 and 9 p.m. April 1. This
is the third production for the Cal Poly Opera Workshop.
Student vocalists and members of the Cal Poly Symphony
will present Henry Purcell's work. The cast consists
of six women and three men as Dido, Aeneas, Belinda,
sailors and witches, and the work is mysterious
and brooding in nature. Tickets are $10 general/$6
seniors and students.
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Soloist
George Winston
returns to Cohan Center March 28
Solo acoustic concert artist George Winston returns
to the Performing Arts Center for a reprise evening
of original piano compositions inspired by his rural
Western roots. His most recent recording, "Montana
- A Love Story," completes a cycle of music about
his home state that began with the 1994 Grammy-winning
album "Forest" and continued with the chart-topping,
gold album, "Plains," in 1999. Performing
in his signature sweeping, melodic folk piano style,
his concert will feature songs from Montana, as well
as occasional interludes on harmonica and guitar.
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Annual
Cal Poly Open House, New Student Preview Day set for
April 21-22
Cal Poly's annual Open House celebration for parents,
new students, the university and the community is
scheduled for Friday and Saturday, April 21-22. Thousands
of newly admitted students and their parents come
to Admitted Student Preview Day every year for tours
of campus and their departments. Admitted Student
Preview Day is Friday, April 21. Open House, complete
with the annual Poly Royal parade through campus,
is set for Saturday, April 22. Departments and clubs
will sponsor booths and activities around campus.
This year's theme is "Cal Poly: Choice of Champions."
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