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Two campus groups win Presidenrs Diversity Award
The annual President's Diversity
Award this year recognized two campus
programs for outstanding contributions
to university diversity.
One award was given to the Connec­
tions for Academic Success program,
which partnered with colleges, Admis­
sions and the University Diversity
Enhancement Council to advise and help
retain hundreds of diverse students.
A second award was given to the
Minority International Research Access
(MIRA) Program, which has brought
more than $1.1 million to campus to
underwrite the international research
experience of 10 students annually.
The President's Diversity Award
recognizes those who have contributed
in special ways to creating a campus
where diversity is supported and eel­

ebrated. At this year's recent award pre­
sentation, President Baker commented
that the growing number and quality of
nominations is evidence of the univer­
sity's steadily increasing awareness of and
commitment to diversity.
In part through the continued good
work of the University Diversity En­
hancement Council, chaired by College
of Liberal Arts Dean Harry Hellenbrand,
diversity issues are assuming a place of
growing prominence in the university's
ongoing conversation about goals and
values, Baker added.
The award includes $1 ,000 for each
program, and the two programs will
be memorialized on a perpetual plaque
honoring their contributions as well as
the contributions of past and future
awardees. 0

Landscape lecturer Ragsdale wins coveted Rome Prize
A member of the landscape architec­
ture faculty will take up residence in
Rome this fall as one of 31 winners ofthe
107th annual Rome Prize Competition of
the American Academy in Rome.
Lecturer Joseph Ragsdale won the
award for a proposal to study the relation­
ship between the material surfaces that
make up the city of Rome and the "source
landscapes" of those materials - industrial
sites, quarries and working communities.
Ragsdale will spend 11 months in the
Italian capital living and working with the
other 2003-2004 winners at the American
Academy's 11-acre site on Rome's high­
est hill.
The other winners include architects,
landscape architects, visual artists, writ­
ers, composers, historic preservationists
and scholars with interests ranging from
the ancient world to modern Italy.
"The Rome Prize is considered one of
the most significant accolades offered in
the design and arts fields," said Richard
Zweifel, interim dean of architecture and
environmental design. "Joe's receipt of

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Vol. 2, No. 37 • June 18, 2003

Engineering's Rainey
named for national honor
Paul Rainey, associate dean of the
College of Engineering, has been named
a Fellow Member of the American Soci­
ety for Engineering Education (ASEE).
Rainey will be recognized for "out­
standing contributions to the society" at
the group's annual awards banquet
June 25 in Nashville, Tenn.
"It's an organization that I really be­
lieve in, so it's a welcome .honor," said
Rainey, anASEE member since 1979
who has twice been elected to its board of
directors. "Because it allows engineering
educators from all over the country to
share ideas on current teaching methods
and learn about new equipment, the work
of the society fits in perfectly with what
we do here at Cal Poly."
Founded in 1893, the ASEE is dedi­
cated to promoting and improving
engineering and technology education.
Included among its 12,000 members are
college deans, professors, students and
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this award puts him in the company of
internationally recognized leaders in the
arts and humanities."
Previous Rome Prize recipients include
composer Samuel Barber, writer Ralph
Ellison and architects Michael Graves and
Robert Venturi.
Rome has lived with its environment
for more than 2,500 years, Ragsdale said,
and he hopes to find, in studying that rela­
tionship, new ideas for solving some of
the problems found in America's contem­
porary urban landscape.
He describes his project as investigat­
ing "two landscapes linked by production
- one a source landscape of extraction and
the other, a surface landscape of additive
urban form. The city of Rome and sup­
porting landscapes provide rich lessons
for us to better understand how our own
depleted landscapes can be regenerated
and rundown industrial areas revitalized."
Ragsdale's professional work has in­
cluded involvement in the site landscape

The College ofEngineering recognized
outstanding faculty and staff members at its
recent annual Awards Banquet. Two out­
standing staff awards and a faculty advisor
award were presented, along with three
industry-sponsored awards.
In addition, two professors from other
colleges, one from Science and Math­
ematics and one from Liberal Arts, were
honored.
Materials Science Associate Professor
Kathy Chen won the $2,000 Northrop
Grumman Excellence in Teaching Award,
Materials Engineering and General Engi­
neering Associate Professor Lanny Griffin
received the $3,000 Northrop Grumman
Electronics Systems Excellence in Re­
search and Development Award, and
Environmental Engineering Associate Pro-

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Engineering faculty, staff
honored for excellence

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Position Vacancies

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for the Getty Center in Los Angeles, de­
sign for the plazas and waterfront at San
Francisco's PacBell Park, and, most re­
cently, work on urban revitalization pro­
jects and Superfund toxic cleanup sites in
several states.
Ragsdale has been teaching at Cal Poly
since January 2002. Before that he taught
at the University of Virginia, where he
earned his master's in landscape architec­
ture in 2000. He earned his bachelor's
degree in landscape architecture at UC
Berkeley in 1991. 0

industry representatives. The grade of
Fellow is the society's highest distinction.
Rainey, who earned his doctorate from
Texas A&M University in 1981 and has
been a professor of industrial and manu­
facturing engineering at Cal Poly since
1987, said his involvement in the society
is ongoing.
"I've been asked to run for VP (vice
president) of Member Affairs for 2004,"
he said, "and I will, gladly."
More information is available on the
World Wide Web at www.asee.org. 0

SfATE The official listing of staff and man­
agement vacancies is posted on Cal Poly's
online employment system,
www.calpolyjobs.org. As a courtesy to on­
campus employees, job vacancies are also
published in the Cal Poly Report. Positions
marked with an asterisk indicate that
qualified on-campus applicants in bargain­
ing units 2, 5, 7 and 9 will be given first
consideration. To apply, go to
www.calpolyjobs.org and complete the
online application. Applicants needing
computer/Internet access and/or assistance
may contact Human Resources at ext. 6­
2236 for information on available
resources.
#100094-Cierical Assistant (Administra­
tive Support Assistant II),* Student Affairs,
Student Community Services, temporary
through June 30, 2004, $2,273-$3,409/month.
Closing date: Thursday (June 19).
#100102-Facilities Worker I, Administra­
tion & Finance, Facility Services, internal
recruitment, two positions available, tempo­
rary, six-month appointment, $3,192-$3,880/
month. Closing date: Friday (June 20).

Free fruit tasting Saturday

Engineering faculty, staff

The College ofAgriculture will host a
free fruit tasting Saturday (June 21) with
more than 30 varieties of fresh plums,
apricots, cherries, nectarines and more. It
will be held 1-5 p.m. at the Crops Unit.
The event, sponsored by the California
Rare Fruit Growers, the Horticulture and
Crop Science Department and the
university's Crops Club, will include fruit
from the Dave Wilson Nursery. Fruit to be
sampled includes peaches, nectarines,
plums, apricots and cherries, including
several newly developed varieties not yet
officially named, according to event orga­
nizer and Professor Emeritus Joe Sabol.
The Dave Wilson Nursery is a major
producer of fruit trees for home planting as
well as for commercial fruit producers. []

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fessor Yarrow Nelson received the $3,000
Raytheon Excellence in Teaching and Ap­
plied Research Award.
The engineering student body selected
the recipients of the Outstanding Achieve­
ment in Teaching awards and Outstanding
Faculty Advisor Award. Teaching Award
winners were Physics Professor Ronald
Zammit, a Cal Poly veteran of 17 years, and
English Lecturer Joel Westwood.
Donna Aiken won the 2003 Outstanding
Club Advisor Award for her mentorship of
the College of Engineering Ambassadors ·
Program. The college's Outstanding Staff
awards were given to Cheryl Hahn, admin­
istrative analyst for the Civil and Environ­
mental Engineering Department, and Byron
Smith, Computer Science Department
equipment and software specialist. 0

Poly Canyon featured
on Discovery Channel

Library moves collections

The student-built experimental struc­
tures in Poly Canyon were featured
Tuesday (June 17) on the Discovery
Channel series "It's Christopher Lowell."
The canyon was part of a show titled
"Follow Your Dreams" that could be re­
peated in coming months.
The show's producer, 1986 journalism
graduate Carrie Olson, said, "It was a joy
to work with the students and faculty
involved. And, as a Cal Poly broadcast
journalism alum, it was especially fun for
me to come back to campus and direct
this segment. It celebrates Cal Poly's
'learn by doing' philosophy as illustrated
through Poly Canyon and the interdisci­
plinary creativity of the College of
Architecture and Environmental Design's
very talented students." 0

More changes are under way to inte­
grate and streamline services at the
Kennedy Library. Most of the Govern­
ment Documents and Maps collections
were moved to the first-floor Reference
area. Additional relocated collections
include documents from the State of Cali­
fornia, California cities and counties, and
agricultural experiment stations.
Materials related to the Diablo Canyon
Nuclear Power Plant, the maps and atlas
collections, and selected U.S. documents
were also moved. Assistance with Govern­
ment Documents materials will be provided
at the Reference Desk on the first floor.
For more information, contact Sharon
Fujitani, interim head of government
documents and maps, at ext. 6-1105 or
sfujitan@calpoly.edu. []

FACULTY Candidates are asked to visit our
online employment Web site at
www.calpolyjobs.org to complete an applica­
tion and apply for any of the positions
shown below. Please submit all requested
application materials as attachments to your
online application, unless otherwise
specified in the ad. Rank and salary are
commensurate with qualifications and
experience (and time base where appli­
cable), unless otherwise stated.
#100073: Part-Time Lecturer Pool, Lib­
eral Studies Department (ext. 6-2935). .
Closing date extended to July 15. !l

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