Archive for October, 2010

Fresno State ceremony honors veterans Nov. 9

California State University, Fresno will pay tribute to the university’s 350 veterans – students and employees – in a ceremony at noon Tuesday, Nov. 9, with music, bagpipes and a talk by a professor who served as a U.S. Marine Corps Judge Advocate General. Presented by the Fresno State Student...

October 29th, 2010 | Events | Read More

Chemistry students to receive national awards

The Chemistry Club at California State University, Fresno has gained national recognition from the American Chemical Society, the world’s largest scientific society, and will receive two prestigious awards at the society’s 241st national meeting in Anaheim next March. Fresno State will receive...

October 29th, 2010 | Academics | Read More

WAC, Fresno State, Nevada reach agreement

Under an agreement reached between Fresno State, Nevada and the Western Athletic Conference, Fresno State will remain in the Western Athletic Conference until June 30, 2012, and then leave to join the Mountain West Conference. Fresno State will pay the WAC $180,000 a year in each of the next five years...

October 28th, 2010 | Athletics | Read More

Mudsling in California! Negative campaigning is Ethics Lecture topic at Fresno State

The “negative ads” drama that emerged from a Women’s Conference in Long Beach during an interview with the two major gubernatorial candidates cast a brighter light on a scheduled lecture at California State University, Fresno. “Mudslinging and Negative Ads – Is It Possible to Run an Ethical...

October 27th, 2010 | News | Read More

Fresno State efforts to address urban issues spotlighted in national conference

Fresno State’s partnerships in the community to address urban issues were in the spotlight Oct. 24-26 as the university hosted the 2010 national conference of the Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities (CUMU). More than 200 delegates from across the country participated in tours of the Lowell...

October 26th, 2010 | News | Read More

Balloon raises hopes for improved air quality

A big orange balloon in the sky…that’s what residents in north central Fresno spotted recently above the Fresno State campus. While it may have looked like big kids playing with great helium-filled toy, it was in fact a team of faculty and student researchers conducting sophisticated data recordings...

October 25th, 2010 | Academics | Read More

Canopy management trials help to restore wine grape harvest

The growing popularity of two relatively new California wine varieties has brought a boost to the wine grape growing industry in the San Joaquin Valley. The cultivars Pinot Grigio and Shiraz have seen strong sales in recent years; and since more than 70 percent of grapes for those wines are grown in...

October 25th, 2010 | News | Read More

Lyles College of Engineering marked by new sign

New on the campus is a sign south of the Engineering East Building at California State University, Fresno identifying the Lyles College of Engineering. Fresno businessman and Fresno State benefactor William Lyles was joined by university President John D. Welty, Provost William Covino and Dr. Ram Nunna,...

October 25th, 2010 | Campus | Read More