California State University, Long Beach (CSULB) will receive a $2.88 million appropriation from a recently approved defense spending bill as the lead institution in the multi-CSU campus Strategic Language Initiative (SLI).
U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., along with U.S. Reps. Laura Richardson, Ed Royce and Diane Watson, requested the funds for the initiative. The U.S. Senate passed the spending bill in late December, and it has since been signed by President Barack Obama.
According to a release from Sen. Boxer’s office, “The defense funding will further the development of critical foreign language programs that will help meet America’s national security needs. The initiative will help graduate more professionals with language skills and cultural knowledge in Arabic, Mandarin, Korean, Persian and Russian.”
Housed in the CSULB College of Liberal Arts, SLI was created in 2006-07 through the Southern Consortium of California State Universities. Now called the CSU Consortium on Strategic Language Initiative, the program brings together the infrastructure and language faculty expertise of five different southern California CSU campuses. This year, the program is adding two northern California CSU campuses.
Those campuses (and the foreign language each focuses on) that will receive funding include CSULB (Mandarin Chinese), Cal State Fullerton (Persian), Cal State L.A. (Korean), Cal State Northridge (Russian) and Cal State San Bernardino (Arabic). The appropriation monies will also support expansion of the program to San Francisco State (Mandarin Chinese) and San Jose State (Arabic).
“We’re extremely grateful to Senator Boxer and Representatives Richardson, Royce and Watson for recognizing the value of the Strategic Language Initiative and the role it can play in meeting the country’s national security needs,” said CSULB President F. King Alexander. “But beyond national security, we can see that languages such as these are called for in both the public and private sectors, especially as our universities and our nation think more globally.”
The consortium has created 18-month intensive and highly demanding programs in these five languages and has integrated language learning with academic majors for career opportunities in government and industry professions. Each campus enrolls students who are subdivided into two cohorts of heritage speakers and advanced non-heritage speakers.
“The success of the SLI Language Immersion Program model is evident in the fact that the completion rate of SLI participants is 98 percent. That’s very high,” noted KimOahn Nguyen-Lam, SLI’s executive director at CSULB. “A number of our SLI graduates received offers to work with international companies and others were accepted to advance their language study in countries where they did their study abroad.
“Moreover, the SLI participants’ average gain in language proficiency is significant across all five campuses. The 18-month language immersion program yields an average language gain equivalent to that of students who had taken three plus years of language study in traditional classroom setting. This is quite significant considering that these students are not language majors,” she added. “We are confident that subsequent cohorts will yield even greater results as the program’s curricula being refined and enhanced.
SLI officials have pointed out that CSU campuses are ideally positioned to lead this language initiative as the campuses serve some of the most linguistically diverse populations in the nation, enrolling more than 100,000 students each year with large heritage language communities near each campus.
-- Rick Gloady
Monday, February 15, 2010
Cal State Long Beach Professor Named "Diversity Champion" for Work in Communicative Disorders of Linguistically Different
Cal State Long Beach (CSULB) Communicative Disorders Chair Carolyn Conway Madding was named a Diversity Champion recently by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) in a ceremony held in New Orleans.
Madding was recognized for her initiation, development and supervision of CSULB’s Linguistically Different Clinic, which incorporates instruction in bilingual assessment and management and for restructuring the Communicative Disorders Department curriculum to include instruction in serving clients from diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds.
“During the 20 years I have been here, we have treated clients in 26 different languages with disorders that cover the spectrum, including aphasia, traumatic brain injuries, autism and stuttering,” pointed out Madding, who has brought in nearly $2 million in grant money for the education of bilingual speech-language pathologists. “These linguistically different services are so rare in this area that people will come from 40 to 50 miles away to avail themselves of these services.”
Madding, who joined CSULB in 1989, said she was near tears when she received the award’s medallion and a standing ovation from her peers. “It was a very special honor to get this award,” she said. “It was the highlight of my career.”
Madding believes her initiation of the linguistically different clinic was a big reason for her distinction. “There is no other clinic like this,” she explained. “Some schools allow a student to work with one or two clients in the student and client’s non-English language. All of our graduate students must obtain clinical hours in the Linguistically Different Clinic. Even if they speak only English, they go through the clinic and work with an interpreter to serve people in another language. That is unique in this profession.”
Madding said when she came to CSULB, she came to work on the diversity track. For her, getting the Diversity Champion award from ASHA was icing on the cake after having spent 21 years working in the area of diversity.
"Our linguistically different clinic has been in operation for 21 years to provide services for anybody with any communicative disorder whose first language is not English. We also do special evaluations for the Stephen Benson Program to determine if students being evaluated for a learning disability may have a language-based problem," she said. "A language disorder can only be determined if the student is evaluated and shows problems in all languages spoken, and is not an English-as-a-second-language problem.”
ASHA is the national professional, scientific, and credentialing association for more than 150,000 audiologists, speech-language pathologists, and speech, language, and hearing scientists. Speech-language pathologists identify, assess, and treat speech and language problems including swallowing disorders. ASHA recognizes Diversity Champions for advancing multicultural issues in communication sciences and disorders.
Madding earned her bachelor’s degree in secondary education from Ohio State, a master’s in communicative disorders from Cal State Fullerton in 1982 and a Ph.D. in anthropology and linguistics from Claremont Graduate University in 1995.
In addition to the clinic, Madding is the co-creator of a new special cohort M.A. program, which is run through the university’s College of Continuing and Professional Education. Started in 2007, the program has doubled the number of graduate students in the Communicative Disorders Department. The first cohort of 30 students graduated last summer, and according to Madding, all 30 students left the program with good-paying jobs. A second cohort of students began last fall.
Her recognition as a Diversity Champion reflects how CSULB has changed in the 20 years since her arrival, Madding feels. “When I received my first grant, I had to scour the campus to find a bilingual student,” she recalled. “Now bilingual students practically beat down my door. We offer a welcome to students of all linguistic groups and ethnicities. Other programs believe students must speak English as a first language in order to be a competent speech-language pathologist. ASHA doesn’t feel that way and neither do we.”
-- Rick Manly
Madding was recognized for her initiation, development and supervision of CSULB’s Linguistically Different Clinic, which incorporates instruction in bilingual assessment and management and for restructuring the Communicative Disorders Department curriculum to include instruction in serving clients from diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds.
“During the 20 years I have been here, we have treated clients in 26 different languages with disorders that cover the spectrum, including aphasia, traumatic brain injuries, autism and stuttering,” pointed out Madding, who has brought in nearly $2 million in grant money for the education of bilingual speech-language pathologists. “These linguistically different services are so rare in this area that people will come from 40 to 50 miles away to avail themselves of these services.”
Madding, who joined CSULB in 1989, said she was near tears when she received the award’s medallion and a standing ovation from her peers. “It was a very special honor to get this award,” she said. “It was the highlight of my career.”
Madding believes her initiation of the linguistically different clinic was a big reason for her distinction. “There is no other clinic like this,” she explained. “Some schools allow a student to work with one or two clients in the student and client’s non-English language. All of our graduate students must obtain clinical hours in the Linguistically Different Clinic. Even if they speak only English, they go through the clinic and work with an interpreter to serve people in another language. That is unique in this profession.”
Madding said when she came to CSULB, she came to work on the diversity track. For her, getting the Diversity Champion award from ASHA was icing on the cake after having spent 21 years working in the area of diversity.
"Our linguistically different clinic has been in operation for 21 years to provide services for anybody with any communicative disorder whose first language is not English. We also do special evaluations for the Stephen Benson Program to determine if students being evaluated for a learning disability may have a language-based problem," she said. "A language disorder can only be determined if the student is evaluated and shows problems in all languages spoken, and is not an English-as-a-second-language problem.”
ASHA is the national professional, scientific, and credentialing association for more than 150,000 audiologists, speech-language pathologists, and speech, language, and hearing scientists. Speech-language pathologists identify, assess, and treat speech and language problems including swallowing disorders. ASHA recognizes Diversity Champions for advancing multicultural issues in communication sciences and disorders.
Madding earned her bachelor’s degree in secondary education from Ohio State, a master’s in communicative disorders from Cal State Fullerton in 1982 and a Ph.D. in anthropology and linguistics from Claremont Graduate University in 1995.
In addition to the clinic, Madding is the co-creator of a new special cohort M.A. program, which is run through the university’s College of Continuing and Professional Education. Started in 2007, the program has doubled the number of graduate students in the Communicative Disorders Department. The first cohort of 30 students graduated last summer, and according to Madding, all 30 students left the program with good-paying jobs. A second cohort of students began last fall.
Her recognition as a Diversity Champion reflects how CSULB has changed in the 20 years since her arrival, Madding feels. “When I received my first grant, I had to scour the campus to find a bilingual student,” she recalled. “Now bilingual students practically beat down my door. We offer a welcome to students of all linguistic groups and ethnicities. Other programs believe students must speak English as a first language in order to be a competent speech-language pathologist. ASHA doesn’t feel that way and neither do we.”
-- Rick Manly
CSULB Biologists to Speak on How Overfishing is Affecting
California sheephead are a popular local sport and food fish with an interesting biological method of managing their own populations. Every fish is born female but can change to male if the dominant male in its area dies.
Professor Christopher Lowe, a marine biologist, and Associate Professor Kelly Young, a reproductive biologist at California State University, Long Beach (CSULB), teamed up with researchers from UC Santa Barbara to examine how overfishing of sheephead is affecting local populations. They will discuss their findings at the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics (CNSM) Fellows Colloquium and Dean’s Breakfast at 7:30 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 17, in the CSULB Pyramid Annex conference room.
Using a combination of standard fisheries techniques and new reproductive biology methods, their collaborative research is helping fisheries' managers develop more effective protection for sheephead as well as methods that can be used for other species impacted by the pressures of heavy fishing.
Lowe is an expert in the physiological and behavioral ecology of sharks, rays and other economically important game fishes. He earned his master’s in biology from CSULB and his doctorate from the University of Hawaii. In 2009, he was named CSULB’s Outstanding Professor. Young’s research interests are in seasonal reproduction and hormonal regulation of gonadal physiology. She received her doctorate from John Hopkins School of Public Health. In 2009, she was honored with CSULB’s Outstanding Faculty Teaching Award.
The program is free to members of the CNSM Fellows—the college’s premier support group—as well as CNSM students, and $25 for non-members. For reservations and to learn more about this and upcoming colloquia, visit www.beach-biology.com or contact Nicole Algarin-Chavarria, nalgarin@csulb.edu, 562/985-7446.
-- Anne Ambrose
Professor Christopher Lowe, a marine biologist, and Associate Professor Kelly Young, a reproductive biologist at California State University, Long Beach (CSULB), teamed up with researchers from UC Santa Barbara to examine how overfishing of sheephead is affecting local populations. They will discuss their findings at the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics (CNSM) Fellows Colloquium and Dean’s Breakfast at 7:30 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 17, in the CSULB Pyramid Annex conference room.
Using a combination of standard fisheries techniques and new reproductive biology methods, their collaborative research is helping fisheries' managers develop more effective protection for sheephead as well as methods that can be used for other species impacted by the pressures of heavy fishing.
Lowe is an expert in the physiological and behavioral ecology of sharks, rays and other economically important game fishes. He earned his master’s in biology from CSULB and his doctorate from the University of Hawaii. In 2009, he was named CSULB’s Outstanding Professor. Young’s research interests are in seasonal reproduction and hormonal regulation of gonadal physiology. She received her doctorate from John Hopkins School of Public Health. In 2009, she was honored with CSULB’s Outstanding Faculty Teaching Award.
The program is free to members of the CNSM Fellows—the college’s premier support group—as well as CNSM students, and $25 for non-members. For reservations and to learn more about this and upcoming colloquia, visit www.beach-biology.com or contact Nicole Algarin-Chavarria, nalgarin@csulb.edu, 562/985-7446.
-- Anne Ambrose
Monday, February 8, 2010
Cal State Long Beach Business Student Finishes Among Nation’s Top Orators at Moot Court Nationals Among Nation’s Top Orators at Moot Court Nationals
For a guy who almost quit college a couple of times and changed his major from engineering to business, Tim Appelbaum seems now on track.
Recently, the California State University, Long Beach (CSULB) senior had another verification that his decision to stay in school was a good move when he finished as the fourth best orator in the country out of 128 competitors at the recent national moot court competition in Miami. Approximately 500 individuals began in regional competition across the country.
“I was shocked,” said Appelbaum. “The competition there is very heavy. When I wasn’t called after the 20th or 19th places, I didn’t think it was in the realm of possibility. There were a lot of people contributing to this and it was really a team effort.”
Orators are judged in four categories -- knowledge of subject matter, response to questioning, forensics, and respect for the courts -- with each category being worth 100 points. Appelbaum received 385.5 points out of the possible 400.
“I think he was genuinely surprised,” said Lewis Ringel, who has served as the moot court team coach for the past four years and has been involved through the program’s entire eight years of existence. “After they called his name there was this long pause.”
Appelbaum’s involvement in the moot court program came about after he took a Political Science 100 class with Ringel.
“He just mentioned something about it and for some reason I decided to give it a shot,” said Appelbaum. “I didn’t feel at home when I first joined the class because there were President’s Scholars there, people with 4.0 GPAs and people graduating in thee-and-a-half years. I felt really out of place, but I’ve been in it the past two years and we have awesome, great people. At Long Beach State, this program ranks right up there with my fraternity as my best experiences and people I will have as lifelong friends out of the program as well.
Ringel credit’s Appelbaum success to a lot of hard work as well as natural talent. In his two years, he has participated in five tournaments, winning one, reaching the semi-final rounds of two, and advancing to the elimination round in each.
“He’s at the very top of all the students we have had in our program. He's certainly in the top five,” said Ringel. “He uses questions to advance his arguments and he layers his answers so that he ends with something that invites further questions. He ends with something almost provocative. Judges pick up on that and they ask him about that so he is completely controlling the direction of the argument. He invites follow-up questions that he is prepared for. It’s not common because you just can’t teach it. I have probably told every student to do that 50 times and some of them do, but Tim consistently does it.”
Appelbaum also doesn’t use notes during his presentations, something that only the top orators tend to do, according to Ringel. He also credits his ease of speaking in public in large part because he has played and sung in a band.
“After playing in a band doing stupid stuff up on stage, you kind of stop caring what people think about you,” said Appelbaum “That really helped out in the competition.”
“Presentation is a big part of this, and we work a lot on it,” said Ringel. “Forensics deals with things like eye contact and being conversational. He doesn’t use any notes, which is not unusual for the best orators. It is unusual when you consider that nationally about 450-500 students compete and my guess is that it’s really the select ones who don’t use notes. It’s certainly more impressive to the judges.”
Appelbaum credits his high finish, in part, to his individual style of presenting his argument, which he think the judges like.
“My strength isn’t with a large vocabulary or anything like that,” said Appelbaum, “but a down-to-earth fashion that the judges are able to understand better than if they had a bunch of fancy words thrown at them. I think people appreciate that.”
As for what Appelbaum plans to do upon graduation next year.
“Before this program, I couldn’t write a sentence basically and now I am able to read critically and write,” he said. “After I did the moot court last year, I decided I wanted to go to law school. I’ll probably do corporate litigation or something in the entertainment industry.”
-- Shayne Schroeder
Recently, the California State University, Long Beach (CSULB) senior had another verification that his decision to stay in school was a good move when he finished as the fourth best orator in the country out of 128 competitors at the recent national moot court competition in Miami. Approximately 500 individuals began in regional competition across the country.
“I was shocked,” said Appelbaum. “The competition there is very heavy. When I wasn’t called after the 20th or 19th places, I didn’t think it was in the realm of possibility. There were a lot of people contributing to this and it was really a team effort.”
Orators are judged in four categories -- knowledge of subject matter, response to questioning, forensics, and respect for the courts -- with each category being worth 100 points. Appelbaum received 385.5 points out of the possible 400.
“I think he was genuinely surprised,” said Lewis Ringel, who has served as the moot court team coach for the past four years and has been involved through the program’s entire eight years of existence. “After they called his name there was this long pause.”
Appelbaum’s involvement in the moot court program came about after he took a Political Science 100 class with Ringel.
“He just mentioned something about it and for some reason I decided to give it a shot,” said Appelbaum. “I didn’t feel at home when I first joined the class because there were President’s Scholars there, people with 4.0 GPAs and people graduating in thee-and-a-half years. I felt really out of place, but I’ve been in it the past two years and we have awesome, great people. At Long Beach State, this program ranks right up there with my fraternity as my best experiences and people I will have as lifelong friends out of the program as well.
Ringel credit’s Appelbaum success to a lot of hard work as well as natural talent. In his two years, he has participated in five tournaments, winning one, reaching the semi-final rounds of two, and advancing to the elimination round in each.
“He’s at the very top of all the students we have had in our program. He's certainly in the top five,” said Ringel. “He uses questions to advance his arguments and he layers his answers so that he ends with something that invites further questions. He ends with something almost provocative. Judges pick up on that and they ask him about that so he is completely controlling the direction of the argument. He invites follow-up questions that he is prepared for. It’s not common because you just can’t teach it. I have probably told every student to do that 50 times and some of them do, but Tim consistently does it.”
Appelbaum also doesn’t use notes during his presentations, something that only the top orators tend to do, according to Ringel. He also credits his ease of speaking in public in large part because he has played and sung in a band.
“After playing in a band doing stupid stuff up on stage, you kind of stop caring what people think about you,” said Appelbaum “That really helped out in the competition.”
“Presentation is a big part of this, and we work a lot on it,” said Ringel. “Forensics deals with things like eye contact and being conversational. He doesn’t use any notes, which is not unusual for the best orators. It is unusual when you consider that nationally about 450-500 students compete and my guess is that it’s really the select ones who don’t use notes. It’s certainly more impressive to the judges.”
Appelbaum credits his high finish, in part, to his individual style of presenting his argument, which he think the judges like.
“My strength isn’t with a large vocabulary or anything like that,” said Appelbaum, “but a down-to-earth fashion that the judges are able to understand better than if they had a bunch of fancy words thrown at them. I think people appreciate that.”
As for what Appelbaum plans to do upon graduation next year.
“Before this program, I couldn’t write a sentence basically and now I am able to read critically and write,” he said. “After I did the moot court last year, I decided I wanted to go to law school. I’ll probably do corporate litigation or something in the entertainment industry.”
-- Shayne Schroeder
CSULB President to Offer Glimpse of ‘New World of Higher Education’ at Inaugural CBA Notable Speakers Series
Offering a glimpse into “The New World of Higher Education,” Cal State Long Beach (CSULB) President F. King Alexander will be the inaugural speaker at the College of Business Administration’s (CBA) Notable Speakers Series on Tuesday, Feb. 16 from 7 to 9 p.m.
The CBA’s Notable Speaker Series was established to add relevance to current students’ learning experiences and to offer opportunities for professional development and intellectual engagement to alumni, staff, faculty and the community.
“A university’s stock in trade is developing ideas and knowledge, so providing a platform for the exchange of thoughts and information is a natural extension of what we offer in the classroom and is a great way to give back to the community,” said CBA Dean Michael Solt.
Alexander is a well-respected national expert in domestic and international higher education finance and public policy. He is known as a tireless advocate of public education and has played a national role in the development of federal legislation that expands access to college classrooms through the promotion of enhanced affordability and accountability.
Throughout the last decade, Alexander has been asked to address national legislative bodies on matters of public education policy on behalf of all public colleges and universities across the nation. This includes addressing the U.S. Congress’ and House of Representatives’ subcommittee on education and the workforce regarding student tuition and college affordability during a series of national hearings regarding the Reauthorization of the High Education Act.
The Notable Speakers Series will take place on select Tuesdays from 7-9 p.m. in the CBA building Room 140 during the 2010 spring semester and feature renowned professionals from a variety of fields who will share their expertise on leading edge business issues.
There is no cost to attend, but reservations are required. Visitors to the campus must purchase a $4 parking permit at one of the yellow kiosks in Lot 15.
To register or learn more about the Notable Speaker Series visit http://www.csulb.edu/colleges/cba/nss.
-- Paul Browning
The CBA’s Notable Speaker Series was established to add relevance to current students’ learning experiences and to offer opportunities for professional development and intellectual engagement to alumni, staff, faculty and the community.
“A university’s stock in trade is developing ideas and knowledge, so providing a platform for the exchange of thoughts and information is a natural extension of what we offer in the classroom and is a great way to give back to the community,” said CBA Dean Michael Solt.
Alexander is a well-respected national expert in domestic and international higher education finance and public policy. He is known as a tireless advocate of public education and has played a national role in the development of federal legislation that expands access to college classrooms through the promotion of enhanced affordability and accountability.
Throughout the last decade, Alexander has been asked to address national legislative bodies on matters of public education policy on behalf of all public colleges and universities across the nation. This includes addressing the U.S. Congress’ and House of Representatives’ subcommittee on education and the workforce regarding student tuition and college affordability during a series of national hearings regarding the Reauthorization of the High Education Act.
The Notable Speakers Series will take place on select Tuesdays from 7-9 p.m. in the CBA building Room 140 during the 2010 spring semester and feature renowned professionals from a variety of fields who will share their expertise on leading edge business issues.
There is no cost to attend, but reservations are required. Visitors to the campus must purchase a $4 parking permit at one of the yellow kiosks in Lot 15.
To register or learn more about the Notable Speaker Series visit http://www.csulb.edu/colleges/cba/nss.
-- Paul Browning
Monday, February 1, 2010
49er Women’s Softball Pitcher Named to Top 50 Watch List for USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year Award
Long Beach State (LBSU) women’s softball pitcher Brooke Turner has been named to the USA Softball Player of the Year Watch List by the Amateur Softball Association (ASA).
The 2010 preseason Watch List is comprised of 50 players representing 35 schools and 14 different NCAA Division I conferences. This is the second consecutive year Turner has been named to the preseason Top 50 Watch List. She was also selected as a top 25 finalist as a freshman.
The ASA will announce the top 25 finalists on April 7, and a list of 10 finalists will be named and released on May 12. That group will be narrowed down to three finalists on May 26 with the winner of the 2010 National Collegiate Player of the Year award announced prior to the start of the NCAA Women's College World Series in Oklahoma City.
Turner is coming off a solid sophomore season in which she earned second-team All-Big West Conference honors. The right-handed pitcher finished the year with 18 wins, which included impressive victories over ranked foes UCLA (No. 3) and Fresno State (No. 12). She also compiled six shutouts, 157 strikeouts and a 2.35 earned run average.
As a freshman, Turner garnered second-team All-America recognition as well as first-team All-West Region and first-team all-conference accolades. She was also tabbed the 2008 Big West Pitcher of the Year.
Turner, who won a conference-record eight Big West Pitcher of the Week awards in 2008, finished the campaign with a 27-6 overall record and an unblemished 12-0 mark in league action. She had a Big West leading 0.80 ERA while she also established a 49er single-season record with 237 strikeouts.
Turner enters her junior season ranked among LBSU's career leaders in strikeouts (third, 394), shutouts (eighth, 23), wins (ninth, 45) and complete games (10th, 53).
Long Beach State, which was receiving votes in the ESPN.com/USA Softball preseason poll, is set to open the 2010 campaign Feb. 13-14 at the Sportco Kick-Off Classic in Las Vegas.
-- Todd Miles
The 2010 preseason Watch List is comprised of 50 players representing 35 schools and 14 different NCAA Division I conferences. This is the second consecutive year Turner has been named to the preseason Top 50 Watch List. She was also selected as a top 25 finalist as a freshman.
The ASA will announce the top 25 finalists on April 7, and a list of 10 finalists will be named and released on May 12. That group will be narrowed down to three finalists on May 26 with the winner of the 2010 National Collegiate Player of the Year award announced prior to the start of the NCAA Women's College World Series in Oklahoma City.
Turner is coming off a solid sophomore season in which she earned second-team All-Big West Conference honors. The right-handed pitcher finished the year with 18 wins, which included impressive victories over ranked foes UCLA (No. 3) and Fresno State (No. 12). She also compiled six shutouts, 157 strikeouts and a 2.35 earned run average.
As a freshman, Turner garnered second-team All-America recognition as well as first-team All-West Region and first-team all-conference accolades. She was also tabbed the 2008 Big West Pitcher of the Year.
Turner, who won a conference-record eight Big West Pitcher of the Week awards in 2008, finished the campaign with a 27-6 overall record and an unblemished 12-0 mark in league action. She had a Big West leading 0.80 ERA while she also established a 49er single-season record with 237 strikeouts.
Turner enters her junior season ranked among LBSU's career leaders in strikeouts (third, 394), shutouts (eighth, 23), wins (ninth, 45) and complete games (10th, 53).
Long Beach State, which was receiving votes in the ESPN.com/USA Softball preseason poll, is set to open the 2010 campaign Feb. 13-14 at the Sportco Kick-Off Classic in Las Vegas.
-- Todd Miles
Cal State Long Beach Marine Biology Faculty, Graduates to Speak at International White Shark Symposium in Hawaii
Faculty and several recent master's degree graduates from California State University, Long Beach’s (CSULB) nationally recognized Shark Lab will be among presenters at the International White Shark Symposium, Feb. 7-10 at the New Otani Hotel, Honolulu, Hawaii.
On Monday, Feb. 8, the California session will include "Historic fishery interaction with the white sharks in the Southern California Bight," presented by Christopher G. Lowe, CSULB professor and Shark Lab director, co-authored with adjunct faculty member Gwen D. Goodmanlowe; graduates Mary E. Blasius of Irvine; Erica T. Jarvis and Tom J. Mason of Long Beach; and John B. O’Sullivan, curator of field operations at the Monterey Bay Aquarium.
Blasius will speak on "Evaluation of organochlorine contaminants in young-of-year and juvenile white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) from the Southern California Bight," co-authored with Lowe and O'Sullivan. Graduate Christopher Mull, now a Ph.D. student at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia, will present "Trace elements and heavy metals in the tissues of juvenile white sharks from the Southern California Bight," co-authored with Lowe and O’Sullivan.
Lowe also co-authored several presentations during the Husbandry session on Tuesday, Feb. 9, including "The Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Juvenile White Shark Project: How weaving together partners from the scientific and fishing communities with research, conservation and education messaging created a wildly successful program," "Routine metabolic rate of young-of-the-year white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) transported to the Monterey Bay Aquarium," and "Captive feeding and growth of young-of-the-year white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) at the Monterey Bay Aquarium."
To learn more about the CSULB Shark Lab, visit www.csulb.edu/web/labs/sharklab and for more information on the symposium, visit www.whitesharkscience.com.
--Anne Ambrose
On Monday, Feb. 8, the California session will include "Historic fishery interaction with the white sharks in the Southern California Bight," presented by Christopher G. Lowe, CSULB professor and Shark Lab director, co-authored with adjunct faculty member Gwen D. Goodmanlowe; graduates Mary E. Blasius of Irvine; Erica T. Jarvis and Tom J. Mason of Long Beach; and John B. O’Sullivan, curator of field operations at the Monterey Bay Aquarium.
Blasius will speak on "Evaluation of organochlorine contaminants in young-of-year and juvenile white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) from the Southern California Bight," co-authored with Lowe and O'Sullivan. Graduate Christopher Mull, now a Ph.D. student at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia, will present "Trace elements and heavy metals in the tissues of juvenile white sharks from the Southern California Bight," co-authored with Lowe and O’Sullivan.
Lowe also co-authored several presentations during the Husbandry session on Tuesday, Feb. 9, including "The Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Juvenile White Shark Project: How weaving together partners from the scientific and fishing communities with research, conservation and education messaging created a wildly successful program," "Routine metabolic rate of young-of-the-year white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) transported to the Monterey Bay Aquarium," and "Captive feeding and growth of young-of-the-year white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) at the Monterey Bay Aquarium."
To learn more about the CSULB Shark Lab, visit www.csulb.edu/web/labs/sharklab and for more information on the symposium, visit www.whitesharkscience.com.
--Anne Ambrose
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