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CSULB hits gold
with bounty of grants
By Jamie Rogers
On-line Forty-Niner
Cal State Long
Beach has been the recipient of several major grants this
semester, all of which will help ease the burden of a strained
economy. Following is a list of some of the major grants CSULB
has received.
• The U.S.
Department of Education awarded $885,632 to the occupational
studies department for a project that will train 50 students
that are working as instructional assistants for the Santa
Ana Unified School District in bilingual education.
• Seismic Micro-Technology, Inc. of Houston, Texas donated
software licenses for 15 computer workstations valued at $826,413
to the geological sciences department. The state-of-the-art
software will provide students with tools to visualize subsurface
and seismic images.
• The U.S. Department of Defense awarded a three-year
grant of $568,474 to physics professor Chuhee Kwon to support
her research in variable temperature scanning laser microscopes.
• The English department's South Basin Writing Project
received more than $200,000.
• The geology department was awarded $200,000 to go toward
the NASA sponsored geological information systems related
to fire management.
• The National Institute for Mental Health provided $200,000
in continued funding to for the COR project which provides
mentoring for students in psychology.
• The U.S. State Department awarded Arnold Kaminsky,
professor of Asian American studies, $140,000 to work with
the Royal University of Phnom Penh in Cambodia.
• The University of California awarded Francine Curtis
of the history department $125,000 for a history and social
science project.
• The U.S. Department of Health and Human services awarded
$71,000 to Diana Lee, assistant professor of psychology, to
support psychobiological research.
• DENSO Corp. granted $34,000 to the College of Engineering
to assist with the mechanical and manufacturing engineering
programs.
• The Haynes Foundation awarded Sherna Gluck, program
director for oral history, $49,954 for her Oral History Archive
Project.
• The Native American Rights Fund awarded Pamela Bunte,
professor and academic advisor of anthropology, $32,503 for
the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians Federal Recognition
Case.
• Boeing Co. gave the college of business administration
$20,000 to establish a new faculty research program, Boeing
IT Research Fellows Program, focusing on information technology.
• The Orangutan Foundation International awarded Nancy
Briggs, professor of communication studies, $25,000.
• PerkinElmer Instruments Inc. granted $16,000 to the
department of physics and astronomy to benefit the departments
colloquia series. Every year the department invites 25 physicists
who present their research to faculty and students.
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