Bolkan Says Organizations
Seek Ways to Satisfy Customers
People offer a variety of explanations for why something did or did not happen in their personal lives. Excuses bump into justifications and brush past apologies on their way to denial. What interests Communication Studies’ San Bolkan is that organizations can do all the same things.
For Teacher Education’s Shin,
It’s About Classroom “Journeys”
Teacher Education’s Fay Shin understands journeys. The member of the university since 2001 created a classroom plan titled “Journeys” that she explained nationwide during a first-ever sabbatical in 2008.
Biological Sciences’ Malcomber
to Speak at Dean’s Breakfast Nov. 18
Research by Simon Malcomber, assistant professor of biological sciences, is providing a number of opportunities to improve plants for food and biofuels. He will discuss his work during a presentation on “Feeding the World” at the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Fellows Colloquium and Dean’s Breakfast at 7:30 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 18, in the CSULB Pyramid Annex.
Employee of Month: Patricia Aleman
Patricia Alemán, a 33-year veteran of CSULB known as “the Queen of Forms,” was named recently by her colleagues in the College of Business Administration as employee of the month.
Nursing Building Has Groundbreaking,
August 2010 Completion Date Scheduled
CSULB officially broke ground on its $4.3 million, nearly 10,600-square-foot addition to its School of Nursing Building at a special event on Oct. 28, at the construction site. The addition is expected to be completed and ready for occupancy in August 2010.
Anthropology’s Neff Heads Research
Team Awarded $292K NSF Grant
The National Science Foundation’s Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences awarded a research team led by Anthropology’s Hector Neff a grant of $292,226 to fund collaborative research at CSULB’s Institute for Integrated Research in Materials, Environments and Society.
Carpenter Center’s “Classroom Connections”
Puts Calico Winds in Schools Nov. 17-23
Calico Winds, a renowned wind chamber music quintet, will participate in Classroom Connections, a program designed by the Carpenter Performing Arts Center that employs professional artists to teach elementary school students in their classrooms about a variety of art genres.
Bookstore to Celebrate
25th Annual Open House
On Friday, Nov. 20, from 4-7:30 p.m., the CSULB Alumni Association and University Bookstore will hold the silver anniversary celebration of a campus tradition, the annual Bookstore Open House. For 25 years, Beach alumni, faculty, staff and friends have begun their holiday shopping at this annual event and enjoy an evening of free food, drinks, entertainment, prizes and, of course, shopping at discount prices. Guests of alumni are welcome and are admitted free of charge. For more information, please contact Sally Schliesmayer at 562/985-1606.