Volume 126, No. 90
Tuesday, February 21, 2017
OPINION
Get your ESA lab out of my lab PAGE 6
Temple Grandin, longtime professor at Colorado State University, was recently inducted into the Women’s Hall of Fame.
Temple Grandin to be inducted to National Women’s Hall of Fame
PHOTO BY CHAPMAN CROSKELL COLLEGIAN
By Willis Scott @willisscottnews
Renowned Colorado State University professor Temple Grandin, Ph.D., will soon join the ranks of Madeline Albright, Susan B. Anthony and Amelia Earhart. The animal science expert’s achievements have roped a place in the National Women’s Hall of Fame. The prestigious organization will officially induct her in September 2017. “I’m really honored, and there’s a lot of other pioneers there,” Grandin said. “You know, being a pioneer, lots of times, is not easy.” According to the National
Women’s Hall of Fame, the Hall was established in 1969 in Seneca Falls, New York to house the contributions of distinguished American women. Seneca Falls, where the first Women’s Rights Movement was held, is the birthplace of the American Women’s Rights Movement. The Hall’s mission statement is “Showcasing great women…Inspiring all!” Grandin revolutionized the meat production industry with her designs for effective and ethical animal handling practices. Early in her career, Grandin said she thought she could fix everything by engineering better facilities, but she soon found that making improvements to a meat packing plant’s management is
equally important. In 1999, she introduced a scoring tool to access the quality of meat packing plants’ killing and handling of livestock. Meat producers had to meet what she calls “traffic rules” of the plant. She trained plants for McDonald’s, Wendy’s and Burger King on the scoring tool. “If you didn’t shoot 95 percent of the cattle dead on the first shot, you failed the audit,” Grandin said. “If you had more than three cattle out of a hundred mooing and bellering when you were handling them, you failed the audit. It was outcome based and simple numbers. And that really worked.” In addition to her work as a
proponent of farm animal welfare, she has made contributions to the treatment of children with Autism. Dr. Grandin was diagnosed with Autism when she was two-years-old. She explained that Autism is a spectrum that affects many people in different ways. “Autism varies from Einstein to Steve Jobs to Thomas Edison to half the programmers in Silicon Valley to famous artists to someone who can’t dress themselves,” Grandin said. She said the important thing for educators and parents to do is develop the area of strength for people with autism. “(Their area of strength) see FAME on page 4 >>
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