Teacher Education Professors
Promote “West Meets East”
When 21 Chinese students from Nanjing’s Wulaocun Elementary School traveled to Long Beach to meet 21 students from the Carver Elementary School, their example would have compelled British author and poet Rudyard Kipling to re-write his famous poem through their participation in the “West Meets East” program event sponsored by CSULB’s Teacher Education Department.
$2.25 Million Grant Awarded To CSULB
For College Assistance Migrant Program
The U.S. Department of Education awarded CSULB’s Offices of Educational Equity Services, Division of Student Services, a five-year grant totaling $2,257,296 to administer the College Assistance Migrant Program for students attending campus from migrant and seasonal farm worker backgrounds. According to the U.S. Office of Migrant Education, the university’s proposal was among its top-ranked applications.
Film On Beethoven’s Life To Be Screen Oct. 17
Award-winning film-maker Phil Grabsky and Seventh Art Productions, the makers of 2006’s arthouse hit “In Search of Mozart,” are back in theaters with a feature-length biographical film about the life of Ludwig van Beethoven, “In Search of Beethoven,” showing at the Carpenter Performing Arts Center on Sunday, Oct. 17.
CSULB Center For Behavioral Research And Services Awarded Four-Year, $1.7M Grant
The National Institute on Drug Abuse, part of the National Institutes of Health, has awarded a four-year, $1.7 million research grant to CSULB Center for Behavioral Research and Services for a project that will study the accuracy and acceptability of experimental rapid tests for infectious diseases.
Acey’s Work Supports Premise That Plasticizers May Contribute To Neurological Disorders
Biochemistry’s Roger Acey and students in his lab have been studying the biology and genetics of embryonic development, using brine shrimp, Artemia salina, as a biological model. He is particularly interested in how environmental contaminants affect development, research that could reveal problems with chemicals found in plastics or even contribute to potential treatments for neurological conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease and autism.
CSULB Selected To Receive Funding From National Physics Teacher Education Coalition
Because of the high caliber of its physics and science education programs, CSULB recently was selected as one of five additional U.S. universities to receive funding from the National Physics Teacher Education Coalition (PhysTEC) to increase the number of graduates earning degrees and teaching credentials in physics or physical sciences. The CSULB PhysTEC project will host a free open house for middle and high school physics teachers on Saturday, Oct. 16.
CBA Featured In The Princeton Review’s
Best 300 Business Schools: 2011 Edition
Highlighting its three “affordable and efficient MBA programs,” the College of Business Administration at CSULB has been named an outstanding business school by The Princeton Review and is featured in its just released guidebook The Best 300 Business Schools: 2011 Edition.
Geography’s Dallman Elected President
Of L.B. Board Of Water Commissioners
Suzanne Dallman, an assistant professor of geography at CSULB, became the new president of the Long Beach Board of Water Commissioners on Oct. 1 after unanimously being voted into the position in September. She was initially appointed to the Board of Water Commissioners by Mayor Bob Foster in October 2008.