CSU, Chico News

The Center for Applied and Professional Ethics (CAPE) at California State University, Chico will sponsor “If We Fail to Act: Ethical Challenges to 21st Century Global Public Health” on Wednesday, Nov. 7, at 7:30 p.m. in PAC 134. Full Story

The Mathematics Project at California State University, Chico has won funding for a new professional development project to improve math instruction in kindergarten through second grade. The California Postsecondary Education Commission (CPEC) awarded a four-year grant of $944,415 to the University in a statewide competition. Full Story

This Way to Sustainability III, the largest sustainability conference of its kind in the United States, will be held in the Bell Memorial Union at California State University, Chico Nov. 1 through Nov. 4. The conference will be hosted by CSU, Chico; Butte Community College; the Associated Students of CSU, Chico; and the Associated Students of Butte Community College. Full Story

Deng Chol, executive director of the Lost Boys’ and Lost Girls’ National Nonprofit Organization, will speak on “Human Rights Abuses and Mass Murder by the Khartoum Government in the South of Sudan and in Darfur” on Monday, Nov. 5. The presentation, to be held at 8 p.m. in Holt 170 on the California State University, Chico campus, is free and open to the public. Full Story

Get in the Halloween spirit as the Society of Physics Students at California State University, Chico presents the Twentieth Annual Pumpkin Drop at high noon on Wednesday, Oct. 31, on the south side of Butte Hall. Legend has it that Galileo Galilei demonstrated his Law of Falling Bodies by climbing to the top of the Tower of Pisa so that he could drop a large ball and a small ball at the same time. Both balls hit the ground together, and his law was demonstrated. Full Story

The Northern California Natural History Museum (NCNHM) at California State University, Chico will host audiologist Crystal Chalmers, MS, as its speaker for the last program in the fall series “It’s All in Your Head.” Full Story

Approximately 160 fourth, fifth and sixth graders from McManus Elementary School will spend the day at California State University, Chico on Friday, Oct. 26, participating in the Mathematics Early Field Experience (MEFE) Day. The day is a celebration of mathematics supported jointly by the University and local elementary partner schools. Full Story

Students and faculty from the College of Engineering, Computer Science and Construction Management at California State University, Chico will travel in January 2008 to New Orleans for the third time. They will continue their efforts to help rebuild New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the devastating hurricane that struck Louisiana in August 2005. The Rebuild New Orleans Project (RNOP) team grew in size from 22 students in 2006 to 55 in 2007. Full Story

California State University, Chico's 2007 Fun Without Alcohol Fair will offer interactive booths and entertainment to approximately 1,000 area youths on the Kendall Hall lawn and adjoining areas. Full Story

Bev Marcum, director of the California Science Project Inland Northern Site, California State University, Chico, has been awarded a four-year grant for $439,000 from the California Postsecondary Commission and the California Science Project for work with the Science Teacher Retention Initiative. This initiative is built on work Marcum has been doing with the Science Project and with grants from NASA’s Opportunities for Visionary Academics Program and CSU, Chico’s Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching for support of interdisciplinary collaboration in the sciences for more than 10 years. Full Story