Caroline Potter, a science education student, received the 2008 California Science Teachers Association Future Science Teacher Award at the recent California Science Teachers Association Conference. Potter has completed her multiple subject teaching credential and is in the process of completing the added authorization to teach science. In addition, she has participated as part of a seventh/eighth grade team, teaching forensic science to middle school students at CSULB’s 2007 Young Scientists Camp, and as a college aide in kindergarten and first grade classrooms while completing her student teaching assignments. She is the fourth CSULB student in as many years to win this award.
Since graduating from CSULB in 2006, two film and electronic arts students, Marlowe Greenlee and Josh Stone, have started their own production company. 336 Productions (the name was inspired by their FEA 336 course) is directing, producing and editing a self-help feature-length documentary titled The Compass. The film aims to inspire people to live the life of their dreams. The Compass' world premiere will be Feb. 8, 2009 at the Grove of Anaheim. The film will be available in stores in March, 2009.
Professor Cory Wright (Philosophy) and Nikolaj Pedersen, a postdoctoral fellow at UCLA, will have “Truth: pluralist theories of” published in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. In addition they are also publishing two books Truth and Pluralism (Oxford University Press) and New Waves in Truth (Palgrave-Macmillan), and are organizing an international conference on truth, to be held at the University of Connecticut May 15-17th 2009.
Alice Choi, lecturer in the Department of Criminal Justice, published an article entitled “Evaluating Hudson v. Michigan and Its Impact on the Fourth Amendment and the Exclusionary Rule” in the Criminal Law Bulletin.
All assistant and associate professors in the Department of Criminal Justice, along with Department Chair Hank Fradella and College of Health and Human Services Dean Ron Vogel had their research papers accepted for presentation at this year’s American Society of Criminology meeting in St. Louis in November. Seven professors attended the event.
CSULB’s Center for First Amendment Studies, led by Director Craig Smith, received a grant from the Norris Foundation to produce “A Report on the First Amendment and Religion.” The report has been accepted for presentation in November at the annual meeting of the National Communication Association and will be a panel at the President’s Forum on Human Rights in March. Both reports are now available on line at the Center’s Web site.