CSU, Chico News

California State University, Chico has once again been designated as a member of the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll with Distinction. This honor, the second in a row for CSU, Chico, highlights the University’s civic engagement activities during 2007. Full Story

Student staff representing California State University, Chico’s Summer Orientation program won two awards at the 2008 National Orientation Directors Association (NODA) Region II conference in Anaheim Feb. 29 through March 2. Full Story

The Society of Physics Students (SPS) at California State University, Chico is one of eight SPS chapters to receive a Sigma Pi Sigma Undergraduate Research Award. The awards provide calendar-year grants to support local chapter research projects that are imaginative and contribute to the strengthening of the SPS program. Full Story

More than 100 students from six local middle and senior high schools will drop eggs from tall buildings, race miniature cars built from mousetraps, launch projectiles from trebuchet devices, crush bridge models made from balsawood and compete in other hands-on activities on Saturday, March 8, at California State University, Chico. Full Story

The Center for Nutrition and Activity Promotion (CNAP), California State University, Chico, is one of several groups bringing T. Collin Campbell, author of “The China Study,” to Chico. Campbell will speak on “Minimizing Risk for Obesity, Heart Disease and Diabetes” this Friday, March 7 at 4 p.m. at the Enloe Conference Center, 1528 Esplanade. Full Story

California State University, Chico Professor Jeff Price, who shared in the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize as a lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), has been appointed as Senior Fellow for Climate Change and Biodiversity at the United Nations Environment Program – World Conservation Monitoring Center (UNEP-WCMC). Full Story

Through a serendipitous series of events, Chico Jazz X-press and its director, Rocky Winslow, have been invited to one of the premiere jazz festivals in the world, the Telluride Jazz Celebration in Telluride, Colo. Winslow received an invitation in December from Paul Machado, director of the festival. Full Story

The Concrete Industry Management (CIM) program, California State University, Chico, is sponsoring a five-hour technical course provided by the National Ready Mixed Concrete Association on Tuesday, April 15, from 5:30 to 9 p.m. The course will provide a comprehensive and working knowledge of pervious concrete pavements for installation, design and/or supervision of placements. The program is tailored to civil engineers, city supervisors, contractors and ready mix producers. Full Story

Timothy Lawrence, manager and co-director of the Center for Water and Land Use at University of California, Davis Extension, will discuss low-impact development, Tuesday, March 4, 5:15 p.m., Langdon 105 at California State University, Chico. The Concrete Industry Management (CIM) program in the College of Engineering, Computer Science and Construction Management is sponsoring his visit. Full Story

In the fall of 2007, James Madison Middle School in Oakland was burglarized and lost many of its computers. The College of Engineering, Computer Science and Construction Management at California State University, Chico, through the efforts of Professor James O’Bannon and Dean Ken Derucher, donated 20 computers and flat screen monitors and a printer to the school. Four students from the National Society of Black Engineers Chico Chapter and two staff members from the MESA Engineering Program at CSU, Chico went to the school to set up the computers and get the new computer lab up and running. Full Story