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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 2015 2015

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

Sustain SLO Undergraduate Narrative Research: Reenergizing Learning, Rachel Pittman, Philip Hatcher, Elise Candelaria, and Jada Golland

Starbucks Line Monitoring, Michael Roberts and George Gargov

Poly Canyon Bridge House- Damage Detection Using Forced Vibration Testing, William Rosenblatt, Joshua Raney, and Alec Zavala

Application of Polymer Bound Boronjc Add for Glucose Detection in Printed Microfluidics Devices, Spencer Schultz

On the Dynamics of Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia, the!Immune Response, and Multiple Drugs, John Shamshoian, David Kato, and Caleb Miller

Symposium, Wilson Shao, Jordan Lim, and Melissa Nunez

Randomized controlled intervention to reduce Bisphenol A exposure in women, Allison Smouse and Mikaela Streeter

Smartphone-Based Intervention to Support Cal Poly Ethnic Minority Students and Psychophysiological Validation Project, Carol Wang, Lindsay Szabo, and Luis Cuellar

Awarded Projects from 2014 2014

EWB Malawi Human- Powered Mechanical Maize Mill, Spencer Jemes, Jennifer Tuttle, and Sydney Poyd

Encosi Africa 2014 Service Learning Design Build Internship, Rachel Pittman, Jocelyn De Leon, Rudy Perez, Annie Potter, Chad Evans, and Camille Cherry

Nem-O's “A Healthy Snack for Kids, a Success for Cal Poly”, Alison Shapira, Katie Lanfranki, Alexandra Carpenter, Christina Neumayr, and Matthew Medlin