News
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Library • The
following services will be unavailable
for a significant portion of July 6 due
to upgrading work: all features on COAST;
retrieving documents or place requests
through ILLiad Interlibrary services;
and off site use of all research databases.
On campus use of databases will be made
temporarily available through a special
Web page that will be linked at http://www.csulb.edu/library.
For more information, e-mail Henry DuBois
at hdubois@csulb.edu.
Education • The Center for Language Minority Education
and Research at Cal State Long Beach has received a contract award of $48,000
from the Inglewood Unified School District to support efforts at Morningside
High School aimed at working with English language learners and closing the
student achievement gap.
Sports • Former CSULB standout and Olympic gold medalist
Misty May and her partner will be competing in the AVP 2005 Championship
Series that begins this weekend, the finals of which will be shown on NBC.
The AVP 2005 Championship Series consists of five events that begin 4th of
July weekend and end Labor Day weekend in Chicago.
Recognition • CSULB hammer thrower Steve Holland was
named to ESPN The Magazine’s Academic All-America team for the second
straight year, earning a spot on the first team after earning second-team
accolades as a sophomore. Holland, who carries a 3.96 grade point average
as a business major, is a three-time regional qualifier in the hammer and
earned All-Big West honors as a sophomore.
Precaution • The
newest plan for the Freedom Tower at
the former World Trade Center site features
a more bomb-resistant design pushed well
away from the street and incorporating
heavily protected elevators and utilities.
The details are part of a redesign detailed
Wednesday for the soaring skyscraper
in lower Manhattan.
Health • The preponderance of scientific evidence
shows that even very low doses of radiation pose a risk of cancer or other
health problems and there is no threshold below which exposure can be viewed
as harmless, a panel of prominent scientists concluded Wednesday. The finding
by the National Academy of Sciences panel is viewed as critical because it
addresses radiation amounts commonly used in medical treatment and is likely
also to influence radiation levels the government will allow at abandoned
nuclear sites. |
