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Grant • Catherine Goodman,
a professor of social work at Cal State Long
Beach, has received a three-year $655,147 grant
from the Archstone Foundation to participate
in the California Social Work Education Center’s
Aging Initiative. Together with co-investigator
JoAnn Damron-Rodriguez of UCLA, Goodman will
combine Archstone’s funding with support
from the California Welfare Directors Association
and CSULB’s department of social work
to pursue her project titled, “CalSWEC
II Aging Initiative: California Labor Force
Development in Geriatric Social Work,” running
through 2008.
Library • The library has acquired a subscription to
RefWorks, a Web-based citation manager. Similar to EndNote and ProCite,
RefWorks is the first citation manager available online. Users can access their
files from any Internet-capable computer. Citation management software has
been popular with faculty and researchers for some time. Users can manage research
citations, create bibliographies and share information with others using RefWorks.
Bibliographies can be automatically created using almost any citation style.
Access RefWorks at www.csulb.edu/library/refworks/.
Electricity • A
blackout hit a large portion of the Los
Angeles area Monday afternoon, snarling
traffic at intersections and trapping
people in elevators. The city was investigating
the cause of the outage. Sgt. Catherine
Plows, a police spokeswoman, said terrorism
was not suspected. The electricity was
knocked out shortly before 1 p.m. after
two power surges, and outages were reported
from downtown to the coast and north
into the San Fernando Valley.
Resignation • Federal
Emergency Management Agency Director
Mike Brown said Monday he has resigned “in
the best interest of the agency and best
interest of the president,” three
days after losing his onsite command
of the Hurricane Katrina relief effort.
Brown, under fire for FEMA’s performance
in the Gulf Coast, said he feared he
had become a distraction. “The
focus has got to be on FEMA, what the
people are trying to do down there,” Brown
told the Associated Press.
Challenge • Two
scuba divers spent Thursday underwater
off Italy, starting what they hope will
be a record 10 days submerged — aided
by a special dry chamber where they can
change masks and eat. They have nine
days to go to reach their goal of 240
hours, doubling the 120 hours set by
Jerry Hall of Bluff City, Tenn., in eastern
Tennessee’s Watauga Lake, according
to Guinness World Records. |
