Alumni
Association grants benefit campus
By Alexis Kindig
On-line Forty-Niner
For
the 11th annual Alumni Association grant
awards in January, eight campus programs
received a total of $30,700.
Programs
and departments at Cal State Long Beach
that benefit students are chosen each year
by the Alumni Association to receive grants.
Applicants are selected by a series of three
Alumni Association committees that make
their decisions on factors such as the number
of students who will be affected, whether
the grant will have a lasting impact and
the extent to which funding is available
from elsewhere.
The
Alumni Association Web site said that more
than $200,000 have been awarded over the
last nine years to CSULB departments and
programs, scholarships and emergency student
loans.
Gay
Arakawa, director of the Alumni Association,
said the winner of the largest grant this
year was the geology department, with an
award of $5,000. Department Chairman Stanley
Finney said the money, along with another
$5,000 awarded by CSULB President Robert
Maxson, was used to purchase a seismometer,
a device which measures ground vibration.
Rather than print the readings on a traditional
ink and paper seismograph, the seismometer
will show its findings on a computer. Though
the seismometer has not been set up yet,
Finney said it will be placed in a hallway
in PH 3 so that students from all majors
can come and see it, especially in the case
of an earthquake.
Finney
said this seismometer will be able to distinguish
between actual earthquakes and vibrations
caused by more mundane sources, such as
trucks. The seismometer will be available
to geology students for research, Finney
said.
“They’ll
be able to tie into it from our computer
lab,” he said.
The
other winners this year were the Hauth Center
for Communication Skills, biological sciences,
the Disabled Students High Tech Center,
the College of Business Administration,
the Isabel Patterson Child Development Center,
the Technology Help Desk and the University
Arts Facilities Services Program.
Gay
Arakawa said that applications for next
year’s awards will be available in October
and will be due in early December.
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