Cal State Long Beach’s University Police will be making some changes next semester with a push toward more community oriented policing and environment-friendly technology. To reassure the campus community, the University Police will increase police visibility by having their officers patrol on bicycles over the summer, said Stan Skipworth, chief[Read More…]
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Newly received or noteworthy information, especially about recent or important events on campus and around Long Beach.
Eco-friendly streetlamps amp up campus, neighborhood security
New energy-efficient streetlights will soon line Bellflower Boulevard and Palo Verde Avenue near Cal State Long Beach after a long awaited decision by the Long Beach City Council to help fund the project. The estimated $300,000 project cost will be divided among the city, Los Angles County and the university.[Read More…]
CSULB plans to renovate Brooks College earlier
Cal State Long Beach will renovate Brooks College in January — two months sooner than previously planned — allowing student occupation of the future residential learning college in fall of 2009. “We are planning on getting to work the day after we take over the campus,” said F. King Alexander,[Read More…]
Professor runs studies of local aquatic risks
The recent fatal shark attacks in Mexico and San Diego have sparked a public desire to understand why sharks attack humans, but despite technological advances the answer is still unknown. The three deaths and recent shark activity need to be kept in perspective, said Christopher Lowe, a marine biology professor[Read More…]
Water quality improves at local beaches
California beaches saw an 8 percent improvement in water quality in the April 2007 to March 2008 Beach Report Card, but Los Angeles County ranked the lowest for the third year in a row. “Clearly we enjoyed record water qualities last year,” said Matthew King, the communications director of Heal[Read More…]
Students participate in special commencement ceremonies
Cultural graduations for students may be more meaningful than traditional commencement ceremonies. Cal State Long Beach now has six different cultural graduations to participate in — African American, American Indian, Chicano/Latino, Pacific Islander, Pilipino and Lavender graduation. Lavender Graduation is a ceremony for the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Intersex Questioning[Read More…]
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Touch-screen napkin worth $20,000
The idea of using napkins as touch-screen computers helped get a Cal State Long Beach student top honors in Microsoft’s Next Generation PC Design Competition May 30. Avery Holleman, a recent CSULB graduate, won the competition’s Judge’s Award and Chairman’s Award, each worth $10,000, for his Napkin PC. The competition,[Read More…]
Groundbreaking work on breaking ground
Cal State Long Beach geological sciences assistant professor Nate Onderdonk received a $25,000 grant from the Southern California Earthquake Center to research the San Jacinto Fault, which goes through the middle of San Bernardino, about 75 miles northeast from Long Beach. “The overall goal is just to get a better[Read More…]
Stanford professor discusses fallacies in U.S. immigration policies
In a lecture on the ‘Polarization, Politics and the Legal Architecture of American Immigration and Refugee Policy, Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar discussed the recent failures of immigration policies and the uprising movement for immigrant legalization. “Immigration is connected to some of the biggest questions this country has to face,” said Cuéllar, a[Read More…]