News Archive

The 2012-2013 Visiting Writers Series featured short story writer Mike Buckley, poet John Brantingham, and poet and publisher Paul Tayyar on Thursday, April 11th, 2013, at California State University, Long Beach’s Soroptomist House.
Michael Buckley read the beginning of a science fiction dystopian novel that takes place in Long Beach at The Pike before it was, what he described... [Read more]

Teresa Zimmerman-Liu received her M.A. in Asian Studies in spring 2012 from California State University, Long Beach, and is a recipient of the CSU Chancellor’s Doctoral Incentive Program for the 2013-2014 academic year. Beginning fall 2013, Teresa will pursue a Ph.D. in Sociology at University of California, San Diego, where she will work with distinguished... [Read more]

Margaret Kuo, an associate professor of Chinese history, was awarded a two-year fellowship at the University of San Francisco’s Center for the Pacific Rim, funded by an $86,250 grant from the EDS-Stewart Chair for 2011-13. The topic of her research is “Law and Morality: John C.H. Wu and the Making of Modern China.”
The EDS-Stewart Chair Fellowship... [Read more]

The 2012-2013 Visiting Writers Series featured Christina Adams, author of A Real Boy: A True Story of Autism, Early Intervention, and Recovery (Penguin, 2005), on Thursday, March 7th, 2013, at California State University, Long Beach’s Soroptomist House. Adams began her talk by discussing her career progression and recent career that involves working on a new book about... [Read more]

Sophia Pandya (R/ST) sees hope for Middle Eastern change thanks to the evolving spirituality of the women of Yemen.
In her article “Religious Change Among Yemeni Women: The New Popularity of ‘Amr Khaled,” published in the Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies, Pandya points to a Yemeni gender and generation gap keyed on Khaled, a pioneer in... [Read more]

Nancy Strow Sheley recently published her essay “Curricular Commonalities in Conflicted Countries: U.S., Rwanda, and Cyprus” in Issues on Education and Research: Volume 3 (Athens Institute for Education and Research, 2013).
Based on Fulbright-supported studies in Cyprus (2008) and Rwanda (2004), Sheley’s essay examines the commonalities of cultural conflicts that are rooted in faulty educational processes which often include a dependence... [Read more]

The Long Beach Intercollegiate Model United Nations (LBIMUN) Conference was held Saturday, March 2nd, in the College of Business Administration and welcomed more than 150 MUN student delegates from six area colleges and universities. Organized and run by political science majors Joe Sklar and Diana Phan, the LBIMUN demonstrated the CSULB MUN Program’s excellence in hosting a conference featuring... [Read more]

Shira Tarrant, associate professor in the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, appeared on KPCC radio’s AirTalk on January 16,  2013. She discussed Lena Dunham, gender, and body image in the segment “Is It Brave, Even Beneficial, for Lena Dunham to Be Nude on HBO’s ‘Girls?’” Click here to listen.
Tarrant is the author of several books including Men and... [Read more]

The Southern Methodist University (SMU) School of Law Tournament was held in February 2013.  
Brianna Wilbur (2nd) (POSC senior), Ashley Hall (6th) (POSC junior), Ruben Frausto (7th) (POSC junior), Kyle Maury (8th) (POSC and ECON senior), and Asmita Deswal (9th) (POSC and PHIL junior) won best orator awards at the SMU School of Law Tournament.
David Casarrubias (POSC junior) and Deswal were... [Read more]

Fifteen of the 34 students who participated in CSULB’s 24th-Annual Student Research Competition on Friday, February 22, 2013, are from the College of Liberal Arts. The following eight CLA students won awards:
Business, Economics, and Public Administration Category
First Place – Neda Jahedmotlagh, Gr., Economics
Health, Nutrition, and Clinical Sciences Category
First Place – Tory Wall, Sr., Psychology
Humanities and Letters... [Read more]