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March 4, 2005              

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Public Invited to Science II Dedication With Jean-Michel Cousteau and Open House March 11-12

Backgrounder...the history of the project

Central California residents are invited to join the California State University, Fresno community to officially dedicate the new Science II Building on Friday, March 11, and Saturday, March 12.

A ribbon-cutting ceremony will be held at 10 a.m. on Friday at the main entrance of Science II, located on San Ramon Avenue just east of Maple Avenue. See campus map.

A community open house from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday will feature student research posters and faculty exhibits that showcase university science programs.

Cousteau in Fresno Jean-Michel Cousteau, famed oceanographer, explorer, filmmaker and son of the legendary Jacques Cousteau, will be featured at the dedication ceremony for the Science II building on March 11. More...

The Friday program will feature comments by Jean-Michel Cousteau, famed oceanographer, explorer, filmmaker and son of the legendary Jacques Cousteau.

Fresno State President John D. Welty and Dr. K.P. Wong, dean of the College of Science and Mathematics, also will speak.

Joining in the ribbon-cutting will be distinguished Fresno State alumnus Dr. Kent Yamaguchi, chief of plastic surgery at University Medical Center in Fresno and 2002 Top Dog Alumnus from the College of Science and Mathematics; Steve Magarian, former Fresno County Sheriff who earned his B.A. and M.A. in criminology from Fresno State; and current graduate students Roberto Vaca (psychology) and Donecia Wright (criminology).

Following the ceremony chemistry professor Dr. David Frank will present a “Science Mania” show at 11 a.m. in the courtyard. Building tours will begin at 11:30 a.m.

The 71,000 square-foot Science II Building is the largest academic building constructed on campus since the Kremen School of Education building was completed in 1994. It contains lecture halls, instructional labs for environmental science and psychology classes, department and faculty offices, and a dean’s complex for the College of Science and Mathematics.

Faculty Exhibits / Research

Doreen DeLeon                     Mathematics Lab                                    Room 321 

Amir Huda                            Physics Medical Imaging                       Room 310       

Matthew Sharps                    Psychology Lab                                      Room 233

Christine Edmondson             Anger Disorders Validity Project              Room 243

                                                   Video Coding Demonstration

Mike Fisher                           Fractal Geometry                                   Room 321

Steven Lewis                         Exploring the Ocean Depths                  Room 114

Fraka Harmsen                      Exploration at the Bottom                         Room 114

                                                   of the Earth: Antarctica

EES Faculty                           Fossil Display                                        Room 114

Zhi Wang                                Groundwater in the San                        Room 115

                                                    Joaquin Valley

Kerry Ford                             Dinosaurs and other Monsters               Room 125

                                                    of Fresno County

Diane Blades                         Fairmead Landfill Site:                              Room 125

                                                    From Mammoths to Saber Toothed Cats

Roland Brady                         Seeing Beneath the Earth’s Surface      Room 118

Roland Brady                         Watershed Restoration in the                 Room 118

                                                    Sierra Nevada

Keith Putirka                          “From the Core to the Surface:               Room 114

                                                    Planetary Internal Temperatures and Volcanism”

David Miller                            Landforms in the San Joaquin                   Room 118

                                                    Valley

Student Research Posters

Matt Ashworth                          Biology                         Area B – 1^st Floor

Daryl Lam                                Biology                         Area B – 1^st Floor

Donnelly/Gomes                       Biology                         Area B – 1^st Floor

Denise Lopez                           Biology                         Area B – 1^st Floor

Observatory Photos                  Physics                        Area B – 3^rd Floor

EES Geology Club                    EES                             Area A – 1^st Floor

EES students                           EES                             Area A – 1^st Floor

Thihan Padukkavidana               Biology                         Area A – 1^st Floor

Carlos Tristen                           Biology                         Area A – 1^st Floor

(Copy prepared by University Communications student- intern Jennifer Stapp.)

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