Federico Casassa, associate professor of enology and sensory analysis in Cal Poly’s Wine and Viticulture Department, was awarded the university’s Distinguished Scholar Award. Casassa brought his passion for wine to Cal Poly’s Wine and Viticulture Department in 2015. He has since helped establish the department — the nation’s largest undergraduate program with 300 students — as a key research hub in California. Read more here: https://www.calpoly.edu/fall-conference.