Nominating Temple Grandin the Colorado State University animal science professor When I first met Temple at a CWOI awards event, I knew she was a winner, now she takes her belief in a TV Movie series, nominating Temple Grandin is a special moment we all need to know about! Temple Grandin who is right here in our own back yard, making a difference. Temple Grandin stays true to herself on Globe red carpet Temple Grandin is a designer of livestock handling facilities and a Professor of Animal Science at Colorado State University. Facilities she has designed are located in the United States, Canada, Europe, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, and other countries. In North America, almost half of the cattle are handled in a center track restrainer system that she designed for meat plants. Curved chute and race systems she has designed for cattle are used worldwide and her writings on the flight zone and other principles of grazing animal behavior have helped many people to reduce stress on thier animals during handling. She has also developed an objective scoring system for assessing handling of cattle and pigs at meat plants. This scoring system is being used by many large corporations to improve animal welfare. Other areas of research are: cattle temperament, environmental enrichment for pigs, reducing dark cutters and bruises, bull fertility, training procedures, and effective stunning methods for cattle and pigs at meat plants. The real Temple Grandin, who inspired an HBO movie bearing her name that is up for best TV miniseries or motion picture was clad in Western wear, an embroidered shirt. "Western is how I dress," she told USA TODAY's Claudia Puig. "I would be too out of character if I wore an evening gown." Grandin said the film "has helped educate people about autism." She said she "got a lot of fantastic mail from a lot of people" about the movie, "people on all points of the autism spectrum." Asked how it was to see Claire Danes portray her life on screen, Grandin said, ""It was like going back in a time machine to the 1960s and '70s. She did such a great job." Grandin lauded the movie for its "cattle accuracy and autism accuracy." Grandin was on the carpet with actor David Straithairn and an executive producer Emily Gerson Saines.