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Baker/Koob Endowments Awarded Projects

The purpose of the Baker and Koob Endowments is to support hands-on, project-based learning opportunities for individual students and groups at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. Because of their similar purpose, distributions of the two endowments will be pooled and used to fund multiple student projects via a competitive process that utilizes a single application. Fundable projects include, but are not limited to, student support, student and faculty travel, student and faculty expenses associated with participation in student research, group projects, conferences, competitions, and equipment and materials related to student research. The use of funds is not restricted to a specific major or college, but rather is intended to support multi-disciplinary, cross-college collaborative Learn by Doing activities. In addition, the Koob Endowment seeks to support students with financial need.

For more information, please visit http://provost.calpoly.edu/endowments.

Awarded Projects from 2016 2016

Factors influencing hindgut fermentation characteristics of the leopard tortoise (Stigmochelys pardalis): Survey of the microbiome, Breanna P. Modica

The Manifestation of Implicit Biases upon Attending a Non-Racially Diverse University, Maddison Montana and Michael Kramer

Roborodentia 2016 - Autonomous Omnidirectional Ring Moving Robot, Matthew Ng, Darus Holmgren, and Mytch Johnson

Solar Electric Stove Field Research in Uganda California Polytechnic State University, Christopher O'Day, Madison Fleming, Omar Arriaga, and Ian Stone

Towards Radio Frequency Detection of High-Energy Neutrinos and Cosmic Rays, Caroline Paciaroni

Quantifying reproductive output of marine benthic species Kelletia kelletii surrounding the 2016 El Nino event, Justin Palmer

Experimental Building Demonstration Model with Viscous Dampers, Blake Thomas Reeve, Brianna Kufa, Aden Malek Stepanians, and Sophie Ratkovich

Development of an Automatous Ground Robot for Strawberry Yield Monitoring, Charlie Ross and Shane Thulin

Army/National Guard Sport Nutrition Project: Dietary Assessments and Nutrition Education, Sofia Sanchez Porush and Selena Sharpless

Marine Virus Isolation for Use in Phage Templating of Nanoparticles, Pranav Santan, Morgan Smith-Boeck, and Siddharth Prabhu

Testing of the Impact Diffusing Football Helmet, Michael Schuster and Steven Warnert

A “Big Data” approach to measurement for real-world, real-time automotive aerodynamics, Daniel Stalters, Andrew Furmidge, and Jacob Rickman

Point-of-Care Diagnostic Device for the Quantitative Analysis of Human Estradiol at Low-Picomolar Concentrations, E Brandon Strong, Brittany A. Lore, and Zachary B. Hoffman

Current Solutions, Elan Timmons, Maxwell Fong, Madison Weiss, and Hannah Joslin

Understanding the transition from dispersive larva to benthic adult: A study of the environmental factors that impact Kelletia kelletii larval settlement, Megan Wilson

Automated Avocado Yield Forecasting Using Multi-Modal Imaging, Michael Woodson and Charlie Ross

Awarded Projects from 2015 2015

The Garden Project, Jillian Broeckel-Bleher, Ellie Gertler, and Georgia O'Farrell

Eating on Campus: Assessing the Nutrition Environment for Students, Kelsey DeGreef, Madison Fishler, Rachel Gipson, Kelly Koyano, and Jansen Lei

Tesseract CubeSat Bus with Deployable Solar Panels, Vanessa Faune, Jeff Weaver, Chad Taylor, Eric Baumgarten, Noah Weitz, Alex Saunders, and Oliver Woolsoncroft

Religious History in California: Los Angeles' Pluralistic Past, Amy Hart

PolyPonics-- Living Lab, Alex Hill, Dylan Robertson, Erik Hoffnagle, and Erik Pinuelas

High Density Inverter for Little Box Google Challenge, Vatssalya Karanam, Niels Smidth, and Evan Manrique

Comparative Analysis of Photovoltaic Systems across multiple environments, Wesly McGuire and Adam Poffenbarger

Application of Pyroprinting for Source Tracking of E. coli in Pennington Creek, Charles Moritz, Dillon Shapiro, and Christopher Pann

Feasibility of UAV Technology to Promote Crop Yield and Health through Normalized Difference Vegetation Index Imaging, Derek Myers and Charlie Ross