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A world-renowned viticulture expert has joined the California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo College of Agriculture.
Richard Smart joined the faculty of Cal Poly as its first Distinguished Visiting Professor of Wine and Viticulture. He will teach at the university during spring quarter each year, from mid-March until early June, and will also be charged with viticulture research.
"Richard's appointment will send a clear signal to California viticulture and to our students that Cal Poly intends to be a serious interactive partner in the industry, both regionally and statewide," says David J. Wehner, interim dean of the Cal Poly College of Agriculture.
"I'm absolutely delighted to be working at Cal Poly," Smart says. "I've argued for years for more acknowledgement of the role of vineyards and viticulturalists in creating quality wine."
In other Cal Poly news, Steve Angley, who is a horticulture and crop science professor at the school, has been named Outstanding Educator of the Year by the Associated Landscape Contractors of America. Angley has taught in Cal Poly's College of Agriculture for the past 20 years.
Johnson & Wales University is opening a school of technology at its Florida campus for the academic year that begins in fall 2002.
In Rhode Island, Johnson & Wales has been graduating students from the school of technology at the Providence campus for 15 years. Now the North Miami campus will offer students bachelor of science degrees in Web management and Internet commerce or associate of science degrees in Web site development. According to Johnson & Wales, new students will also receive new laptops that will be theirs to keep upon graduation.
For more information, visit www.jwu.edu.
The University of Maryland University College (UMUC) has designed an "Energy Resources Management and Policy" track of courses for five graduate programs.
The programs of study include environmental management, technology management, general management, international management, and a dual degree program, technology management master of business administration. The new courses will also be available as electives to other UMUC graduate programs.
For more information, visit www.umuc.edu/grad/news.
In February, Cuyahoga Community College officials announced that the school had been awarded $342,000 in Technology Initiative Funds from the Ohio Board of Regents.
The funds will support the expansion of the distance-learning program into delivery of nursing courses, creation of a technology and information literacy initiative, and an upgrade of videoconferencing systems to support the delivery of distance-learning courses.
The Oklahoma Department of Career and Technology's GirlTech program received the Innovator of the Year award from The Journal Record, an Oklahoma City-based daily that focuses on business and legal news. The award recognizes Oklahomans who set themselves apart with products and services that change the market and make Oklahoma a better place.
GirlTech is a mentoring project designed to help female students succeed in nontraditional career paths such as information technology and scientific research/engineering professions. It is being piloted at Meridian Technology Center in Stillwater and Francis Tuttle in Oklahoma City.
Two Oklahoma CareerTech students and their instructor provided e-mail and basic Web service for the 2,100 conference attendees at the Business Professionals of America (BPA) spring conference. The event took place at Oklahoma State University-Okmulgee and Tulsa February 27-March 2.
Phillip Jackson, a business and information technology education instructor at Gordon Cooper Technology Center, and seniors Brad Davison of Bethel High School and Daniel Cadaret of Shawnee High School built the lab for the BPA conference by networking 20 outdated computers that were stored at Gordon Cooper. The server came from a classroom.
The students, who have a business called Basement Industries, design networks and repair computers, but before creating the lab, they had to submit a proposal to the local and state BPA officers for approval, "just like you would do in any business," says Cadaret.
Jackson likes his students to learn by doing, so the Internet lab they created fit his philosophy of on-the-job training. It was brought to life before the competitive events on the first day of testing.
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