Mary-Kay Lombino, curator of exhibitions at the University Art Museum, is one of the 2005/2006 recipients of a Getty Curatorial Research Fellowship to fund a three-month summer leave of absence this year to research an upcoming exhibition of work by California Symbolist/Surrealist painter Dorr Bothwell.

Christopher G. Lowe, associate professor of marine biology at CSULB, and colleagues from UC Santa Barbara and San Diego State University received two of 14 grants from the California Sea Grant program for research projects beginning this year.