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Alumna • Misty
May, an alumna volleyball star of Cal
State Long Beach, is appearing in the
fall 2005 issue of Modern Bride, Southern
California. In the article, May describes
her wedding and engagement to Florida
Marlins catcher Matt Treanor.
Appointment • Craig Smith, the chair of the Department
of Film and Electronic Arts and professor of communication studies at CSULB,
has been appointed as the faculty trustee to the California State University
Board of Trustees. Selected from nominees endorsed by two-thirds or more
of the CSU Statewide Academic Senate, Smith, 60, will serve a two-year term
as the faculty trustee.
Award • Tim Ball, associate director of facilities
management at CSULB, has been presented with the Energy Project of the Year
Award by the Southern California Chapter of the Association of Energy Engineers
for his collaborative work on designing and developing of several energy
efficiency best practices within the university’s Molecular and Life
Sciences Center. The award recognizes an innovating energy management project
that has been in operation for at least six months and can be substantiated
with actual installation costs and operating savings, or a project is recognized
for its first-of-a-kind approach in Southern California.
Departments • University College and Extension Services
and the Long Beach Unified School District have joined forces to offer a
joint master’s degree program in kinesiology with a pedogogy optio.
The first cohort from the 24-month program graduated last week.
Athlete • CSULB discus thrower Ed Cornell will be
among the best 14- to 19-year-old track and field athletes in the world when
he travels to Ontario this week to compete in the 2005 Pan American Junior
Athletics Championship. Cornell, who will be a sophomore in the fall,
is just the fourth 49er since 1987 to represent the United States at
the Pan American Junior Games, which begin today and run through Sunday.
Sports • Sophomore Alexis Crimes of the Long Beach
State women’s volleyball team was named to the final roster for the
USA Women’s Junior National Team and is competing this week in Turkey
at the FIVB Junior Women’s Under-20 Volleyball World Championships.
The final roster of 12 players was announced last Tuesday by head coach Shelton
Collier at the United States Olympic Training Center in Lake Placid, N.Y.,
where a group of 18 athletes has been practicing since July 8. |
