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      <title>Armstrong named Cal Poly president</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2010 12:58:26 -0500</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[(12/16/2010) 
 
 
The California State University Board of Trustees yesterday named Dr. Jeffrey D. Armstrong as president of California Polytechnic State University, effective Feb. 1.

Armstrong currently is dean of the College of Agriculture & Natural Resources and a professor of animal science at Michigan State University, a position that he had held since 2001. He also is chair of the independent scientific advisory committee on animal welfare to the United Egg Producers, which is a committee of animal ethicists and scientists that sets and updates animal welfare standards for egg producers.

He previously was chair of the department of animal sciences at Purdue University from 1997 to 2001 and prior to that held positions in animal sciences at North Carolina State University.

Armstrong received a bachelor's degree in agriculture from Murray State University in 1981 and both a master's degree and doctorate in endocrinology and physiology from North Carolina State. He was raised on a beef cattle, swine and tobacco farm in western Kentucky.
 
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