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She also directs and develops new programs for the college-wide efforts of recruitment, retention and diversity. Bryan Hill, University of ArkansasBryan Hill, an industrial engineer, is the associate director of recruitment, retention and diversity for the College of Engineering at the University of Arkansas. Bryan managed the 2005-2006 pilot engineering peer mentoring program.

The College of Engineering at the University of Arkansas hosted an Engineering & Science Summer Day Camp for girls, July 30-Aug 3, 2007. This camp was initiated by two teachers involved in pre-engineering programs at Springdale High School. The teachers are involved in Project Lead the Way initiatives and approached the University about forming a potential pipeline that begins at the middle school level with the students proceeding to the preengineering program in their local high school and eventually pursuing degrees at the university. The unique aspect of this program is the ability for the teachers to plant the "seed" regarding preengineering as a possible avenue for the students to consider in their future. These very girls will be their students of the future. Faculty and staff at the university were involved in coordinating this program and hosted it on campus to gain exposure to this select group of girls. The Springdale area is in close proximity to the university and was targeted due to the recent growth in that area of the Hispanic population. School counselors and teachers were asked to help identify students and encourage them to apply. An overview of the camp was given to parents and students in both English and Spanish. Twenty-four girls were selected from forty-one applicants. Daily activities and assignments were modeled after activities in the pre-engineering high school program. The girls gained experience and confidence while building and programming an elevator, racing remote controlled cars, designing a product using a 3D modeling program, programming small robots and participating in a field trip to a local company. The participants enjoyed the camp, formed friendships with their peers, expressed interest in science/engineering, and look forward to follow-up Saturday activities to be held throughout the year in Springdale.

We present observations of five stellar occultations for (11351) Leucus and reports from two efforts on (21900) Orus. Both objects are prime mission candidate targets for the Lucy Discovery mission. Combined results for Leucus indicate a very dark surface with p V = 0.037 ± 0.001, which is derived from the average of the multichord occultations. Our estimate of the triaxial ellipsoidal shape is for axial diameters of 63.8 × 36.6 × 29.6 km assuming that the spin pole is normal to the line of sight. The actual shape of the object is only roughly elliptical in profile at each epoch. Significant topography is seen with horizontal scales up to 30 km and vertical scales up to 5 km. The most significant feature is a large depression on the southern end of the object as seen from a terrestrial viewpoint. For this work we developed a method to correct for differential refraction, accounting for the difference in color between the target object and the reference stars for astrometry derived from ground-based images.

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