CSU, Chico News

What is it worth to businesses to have good language translations and culturally sensitive designs on Web sites that market international products? Billions of dollars, according to California State University, Chico professors who are hosting a training on campus this week for 80 participants from seven countries in how to customize Web sites for different cultures. Full Story

An anticipated 1,000 scientists and students from around the country will visit Chico next month for Botany 2006, the joint annual meeting of the Botanical Society of America, the American Society of Plant Taxonomists, the American Fern Society and the American Bryological and Lichenological Society. Full Story

Two California high schools were among the top finishers in a competition in New York May 26 that showcased student-run entrepreneurship programs. The event -founded by a California State University, Chico business professor-culminates in an international entrepreneurship competition in Shanghai, China, Aug. 3-6. Full Story

California State University, Chico students Lucy Redoglia and Daisuke Nozaki have won prizes for publishing excellence in the 2006 Bookbuilders West book design competition. Full Story

The Italian Studies program at California State University, Chico will host Italia Romantica, Thursday, Feb. 9, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. in the Bell Memorial Union Auditorium on campus. Full Story

California State University, Chico has canceled its fall 2006 season competing in forensics - often called speech and debate - based on an investigation into drug and alcohol use by some of the team members. Full Story

Two students from California State University Chico took top honors at the 20th annual Student Research Competition held May 5 and 6 at CSU, Channel Islands. Robert Abbott, a fall 2005 graduate of Computer Science took first place in the Undergraduate Engineering and Computer Science category and Sarah Horylev, a spring 2006 graduate with an MA in history, was runner-up in the Graduate Behavioral and Social Sciences category. Full Story

The Localization Program, headed by Nitish Singh, professor of marketing in the College of Business, California State University, Chico, has been awarded $502,239, from the Business International Education (BIE) Program, United States Department of Education. Full Story

More than 100 high school students from six states will be traveling to New York next week to try to become the USA SAGE champion and earn an invitation to represent their country at the SAGE World Cup in Shanghai. Full Story

California State University, Chico students spearheaded a fund-raising effort that netted $4,000 for the planned monument in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in Chico's Community Park. Full Story