A faculty panel for the 2004 CSU Media Arts Festival has selected Sharyn Blumenthal,
professor of film and electronic arts at CSULB, as this year's recipient of
the Outstanding Faculty Rosebud Award.

Tulin Mangir, a professor of electrical engineering at CSULB, received a $100,000 award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for a project titled "NUE: A Tour in Nano-land and Understanding the Nano-landscape: Developing Multidisciplinary NUE Courses." The purpose of the project is to develop lower division classes at CSULB in the nano-sciences and nanotechnology, fields of study that focus on manufacturing tools, materials and machines at the molecular and atomic particle level.