Dance Professor Andrew Vaca choreographed the halftime show for the Green Bay Packers- Detroit Lions Thanksgiving Day football game, which aired on FOX. This is the second Thanksgiving Day halftime show he has choreographed. Vaca has done choreography for NBA and NFL dance teams across the country for the past 20 years.
Melissa Bellinder, a lecturer in the Department of Kinesiology, became the first woman ever to win two men’s Professional Bowling Association (PBA) events when she beat 130 bowlers to win the PBA West Region Harley's Camarillo Bowl Open and the PBA West /Northwest Regions Don Johnson Memorial Classic this fall. Bellinder was also featured twice on ESPN this fall, finishing second in the PBA Women's Series Motor City Classic and finishing fifth in the USBC Women's U.S. Open.
Associate Professor of Art History Matthew Simms has written “Between Drawing and Painting: Cézanne's Watercolors," which will be published in 2008 by Yale University Press. The book is a study of the combination of drawing and painting in French artist Paul Cézanne's watercolor technique and the unique means it offered him to express what he termed his "sensations."
HSI Project Director Gloria Inzunza-Franco will receive the 2007 Educational Award on December 8 at the Regional Hispanic Chamber of Commerce's 3rd annual gala dinner "Mujeres del 2007."
Postdoctoral scholar Lucy Napper is being awarded $167,000 over three years from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop a measure that will assess people’s perceived risk of HIV infection. Napper is conducting her research at CSULB’s Center for Behavior Research and Services. Receiving the prestigious NIH award boosts the Center’s annual budget from grants and contracts to more than $1 million and improves its ability to receive additional prominent grants.
Three faculty members received Fulbright Scholar grants this year. Nielan Barnes, assistant professor of sociology, is at the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico City; Nancy Strow Sheley, assistant professor of English, is lecturing at the University of Cyprus on American Cultures: Multiple Perspectives. Critical Views; and Julie Van Camp, philosophy professor, is lecturing at Comenius University in the Slovak Republic on Freedom of Speech, Government Support for Culture and American Diversity. In addition, CSULB is hosting a Fulbright Visiting Scholar. Deepak Kumar Behera, professor of Anthropology at Sambalpur University in India is lecturing this semester on New Approaches to Childhood in Changing Contexts; Dimensions of Social Change in Modern India.