The U.S. Department of Education has awarded a five-year, $3.4 million grant to Long Beach City College (LBCC) and California State University, Long Beach (CSULB) for a project that will provide programs and services to improve students success in math, science and English and increase the transfer of students between the two campuses.

Javier Lopez-Zetina, an assistant professor of health science at CSULB, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to lecture and do research at Cayetano Heredia University in Lima, Peru, according to the U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.