CSU, Chico News

The Bernard Osher Foundation has approved a $1 million endowment for California State University, Chico’s Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI). The foundation has also approved a $50,000 bridge grant award to sustain the program until earnings from the endowment are able to support the program in perpetuity. In 2004, CSU, Chico applied for and received a $100,000 Osher grant, which was followed by two $100,000 grants in successive years. Full Story

California State University, Chico students will be receiving $10,000 scholarships to become math and science teachers, thanks to a new $749,180 grant from the National Science Foundation. Full Story

The Northern California Natural History Museum (NCNHM) at California State University, Chico will present its Fall Museum Without Walls presentation series beginning in October. Full Story

Nineteen California State University, Chico students with numerous achievements and inspiring stories will be honored tomorrow, Sept. 20, at the 26th annual Rawlins Merit Award Reception at 4 p.m. on the Kendall Hall lawn. Full Story

California State University, Chico President Paul Zingg is leading a group of faculty and staff on a two-day trip through the North State Sept. 21-22 to better understand the needs of the communities in the region and reaffirm the University’s commitment to be of service. Full Story

A new online certification program for the California Pavement Preservation Center (CP2C) is being developed for people who work in the pavement preservation field. Denny Gier, pavement engineer with the Department of Construction Management, College of Engineering, Computer Science, and Construction Management, is in charge of the project. Full Story

California State University, Chico business student Greg Turcotte has received the $10,000 2007 SAP America Scholarship for a research paper applying accounting principles to monitoring greenhouse gas emissions. Full Story

The California State University, Chico Mathematics Engineering Science Achievement (MESA) Program has received $598,000 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for scholarships for educationally disadvantaged students. Full Story

The University Foundation, California State University, Chico, named two new board members at its most recent meeting in June for three-year terms. Full Story

California State University, Chico Research Foundation and partners from UC Davis, UC Santa Cruz and The Nature Conservancy will be working on a million-dollar grant with the Sacramento River Monitoring and Assessment Project (SRMAP) to evaluate the health of restoration projects along the Sacramento River. The Sacramento River is the largest river system in California. Restoration projects for habitat, bank and flood protection; fisheries and water quality; and endangered and threatened species have been a regional and state goal for almost two decades. Full Story