Cal State Long Beach senior Lindsay Riley balances school with long practices and tireless dance routines every week so that she may appear on the Lakers’ court come game time. “You really have to learn to manage your time,” Riley said. Riley, a health science major, is on the Laker[Read More…]
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Graduate student’s research may provide link to diabetes study
Cal State Long Beach graduate student Melissa Kaye Jones recently received the 2012 Don Eden Graduate Student Research Award for her work with fruit fly genes that may provide a link to diabetes research. Jones used fruit flies as a model organism because the genome has been sequenced, which allows[Read More…]
CSU students banned from note-sharing site
Notehall.com, a note-sharing website owned by textbook rental company Chegg, shut down its service to Cal State University students after its parent company received a cease-and-desist letter from the 23-campus system. The CSU Office of General Counsel sent a cease-and-desist letter to Notehall on Jan. 4, citing violations of the[Read More…]
Oil trucks block East Campus Drive
Vibroseis trucks conducted geophysical surveys on and around the Cal State Long Beach campus on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, causing surface ground vibrations and backing up traffic on East Campus Drive. According to Debra Russell, director of community development, the geophysical survey trucks send minor vibrations into the earth in[Read More…]
ASL professor delights without speaking a word
Students could not stop laughing during William Rennie’s class. And it’s not a giggle here and there, but a plethora of my-belly-hurts laughs. Often spotted wearing a gray fedora, Rennie, who’s deaf, teaches classes without speaking a word. Still, he’s a comedian. He was the first-born child in a hearing[Read More…]
GE reqs to require only one lab class
Students entering the fall 2012 semester will be required to take only one laboratory science as opposed to two, as part of their general education. The change is part of the new GE policy that passed the Academic Senate on Jan. 26. The new policy will immediately affect all new[Read More…]
MTV’s MADE audition draws small turnout
MTV’s MADE conducted a casting call on-campus Wednesday in the University Student Union room 304 from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. The audition produced a small turnout. Jay Lyons, MTV’s MADE casting producer, who has been working on the show for about 4 years, said more people usually show up[Read More…]
French, Italian classes for Spanish speakers
Efren Espinoza spoke Spanish all the time at home, but never at school. So when Cal State Long Beach offered a French class for Spanish speakers only, Espinoza was intrigued. “I actually decided to double major in French because of the course,” said Espinoza, junior double major in French and[Read More…]
Week of Welcome offers a way to get involved
Cal State Long Beach’s spring 2012 Week of Welcome, a three-day event in which almost 300 student clubs and organizations present themselves, offered a variety of ways in which students can become more involved on campus. Dancers showed off their moves, Christian clubs passed out flyers with Bible verses and[Read More…]
Students receive grant for stem cell research
An internship grant offered to Cal State Long Beach will help biotechnology students conduct stem cell research and greatly improve their chances to find work in the future. The grant was funded by the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) and was an extension of a previous grant that lasted[Read More…]