Christopher Miles, an assistant professor of art theory and criticism at CSULB, has been selected as one of seven winners of the 2004 Penny McCall Award by the Penny McCall Foundation, a private organization established to support and encourage the arts.

Dessie Underwood, an assistant professor of biological sciences at CSULB, is studying chromosomal abnormalities in butterfly sperm that could lead to a greater understanding of chromosome-based health disorders in humans, such as Down Syndrome.