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Provost’s Award deadline March 1
Provost Jeri Echeverria has issued a call for nominations for the 2005-06 Provost’s Awards, which honor full-time faculty members who set new standards of excellence at California State University, Fresno. More...
Grants,
at $22 million mid-year, increase significantly
Despite state and federal budget cuts and increasing competition for funds, Fresno State faculty and staff have received $22 million in new grant awards through the midpoint of this fiscal year, Dec. 31, a big increase over last year. The Office of Research and Sponsored Programs said 10 grant awards received in December totaled $1,306,880.
Grants were awarded to the Colleges of Health and Human Services, Science and Math, Agricultural Sciences and Technology, the Craig School of Business, the Kremen School of Education and Human Development and to Student Affairs.
The Office of Research and Sponsored Programs’ Web site now spotlights a recent award each week. The first in focus is a $199,796 two-year grant from the U.S. Department of Justice to start the Violence Against Women Prevention Program under the direction of Bernadette Muscat (criminology) and Francine Oputa (Women’s Resource Center). The award is designed to bring agencies together to improve the campus and community response to violent crimes against women. For more information on recent awards, please click on www.csufresno.edu/grants/grants-report010106.htm.
Petenbrink appointed director of employee assistance and development
Dr.
Nancy A Petenbrink is Fresno State’s new director of employee assistance and
development in the Department of Human Resources, charged with helping
maintain and enhance the health, well-being and performance of employees.
Swearingen
named permanent director of OCED
Long-time
economic development expert Ashley Swearengin in December was named
executive director of the Office of Community and Economic Development (OCED)
at Fresno State.
Swearengin has been interim director of OCED since July 2000.
New temporary administrative
roles announced
Dianne Dickerson has begun serving as interim dean of the Graduate Division
in preparation for the retirement of Vivian Vidoli, who is leaving the post
she has held after 28 years as head of the Graduate Division. Vidoli will
leave at the end of the academic year. As associate dean, about half of
Dickerson’s duties were dedicated to special projects for the Office of the
Provost. Several other faculty have been appointed to temporary positions as
well.
Catalog answers needs for continuing, global education
The Division of Continuing
and Global Education at Fresno State answers community and university needs
with a spring 2006 catalog of nearly 100 courses that run the gamut from
studies of the Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, to study experiences
throughout the world. Included are new courses that examine childhood
obesity and ways to develop public policy in a collaborative atmosphere.
More...
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