Marlize van Romburgh
Originally published in the Mustang Daily 11/1/07
Two Cal Poly aerospace engineering professors have each been awarded million dollar contracts with NASA for design research related to future-generation aircraft.
David Marshall and Rob McDonald submitted separate winning proposals to NASA that, if received well by the agency, will be implemented into the design and engineering of commercial aircraft.
“NASA has had a transformation in their philosophy of how they want to do research,” McDonald said.
“They’re getting more and more ambitious and giving out larger awards.”
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Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich rallied his troops at the Reggae Festival on Saturday in downtown San Luis Obispo, where he spoke to a small but passionate crowd about “ending global warring and global warming.”
Easily regarded as the most liberal candidate of his party, Kucinich is currently racing near the back of the pack in the bid for the Democratic nomination.
However, neither he nor his supporters found a need to acknowledge this fact on Saturday, when Kucinich spoke about his plan to end the war in Iraq, to replace reliance on fossil fuels with green technologies and to start a single-payer, universal health care system.
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