CSU, Chico News

Jackson Katz, a ground-breaking and internationally recognized expert on men and violence, will give a talk at California State University, Chico Friday, Nov. 13, in the BMU Auditorium. Full Story

California State University, Chico’s Acker Gym will be bursting with students Monday, Nov. 9, as money is raised for children’s cancer research at Up ‘til Dawn, the biggest single night of volunteer service on campus. Full Story

The Fifth Annual This Way to Sustainability Conference will be held Nov. 5-8 at California State University, Chico. The conference, co-sponsored by CSU, Chico and Butte College, is one of the largest student-led sustainability conferences in the country. It will feature 10 keynote speakers and more than 80 workshops on a wide range of environmental and sustainability-related topics.. Full Story

The Associated Students (AS) at California State University, Chico has made a formal commitment to become a Zero Waste organization by the year 2015. With this goal as their beacon, the AS will gradually reduce waste generated by the organization each year in order to achieve a waste diversion rate of 90 percent or better by 2015. Full Story

California State University, Chico’s long-standing Museum of Anthropology has a new name that honors the contributions of Valene L. Smith, CSU, Chico anthropology professor emerita. Full Story

The College of Business 2009 Executive Lecture Series will present financial planning expert Scott Hanson on Tuesday, Dec. 1, at 4 p.m. in Performing Arts Center 134. A College of Business alumnus of California State University, Chico, Hanson will talk about how the rules for financial planning have changed after the fall of Wall Street in 2008. Full Story

First-year students at California State University, Chico have teamed up with health and community services majors to sponsor a significant canned food drive and other events to benefit the homeless in the Chico community. Full Story

The California State University, Chico College of Behavioral and Social Sciences (BSS) Faculty Colloquium this year will honor economist Michael Perelman, author of “The Confiscation of American Prosperity: From Right-Wing Extremism and Economic Ideology to the Next Great Depression” (Palgrave MacMillan, 2007). Full Story