News
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Grant • Two
teams of professors and students at Cal
State Long Beach, led by professors Darwin
Hall and Antonella Sciortino, received
nearly $20,000 in grants through the
Southern California World Water Forum
to research local water-supply solutions
that could result in global benefits.
Hall, a professor of economics, and his
team received a $9,000 grant for their
proposal, “Integrating Marginal
Cost Water Pricing and Best Conservation
Management Practices.” Sciortino,
an assistant professor of civil engineering
and construction engineering management,
and her team were awarded $10,000 for
their project, “Conservation of
Irrigation Water by Onsite Recycling.”
Abroad • Pernicia Jordan, a senior marketing major,
has received a $5,000 Benjamin A. Gilman Scholarship to fund her fall 2005
London Semester Study Abroad experience. During her fall semester in London,
Jordan will study British life and culture.
Sports • Three players from the men’s volleyball
team have made the final 12-player roster of Team USA and will compete
in the World University Games in Ismir, Turkey, beginning today. Robert
Tarr and Tyler Hildebrand were first-team AVCA (American Volleyball Coaches
Association) All-Americans in 2005 and Paul Munoz garnered honorable-mention
honors in the Big West Conference.Crime • G-Unit rappers Lloyd Banks
and Young Buck were arrested on felony gun possession charges after a concert
at Madison Square Garden, police said. The two were released without bail
Tuesday, authorities said.
Obituary • A South Korean man who played computer
games for 50 hours almost non-stop died of heart failure minutes after
finishing his marathon session in an Internet cafe, authorities said Tuesday.
The 28-year-old man, identified only by his family name Lee, had been playing
on-line battle simulation games at the cybercafe in the southeastern city
of Taegu, police said.
Discovery • Men who are accused of never listening
by women now have an excuse — women’s voices are more difficult
for men to listen to than other men’s, a report said. NeuroImage,
said researchers at Sheffield university in northern England discovered
startling differences in the way the brain responds to male and female
sounds. Men deciphered female voices using the auditory part of the brain
that processes music, while male voices engaged a simplier mechanism, it
said. |
