Jumpstart volunteers Jesus Licea, Holly Seidel, Jon Rulloda, Mike Sloggett and Jorge Calderon participate in a “supply blitz” to benefit Jumpstart Fresno recently at Albertson's in Fresno at First and Bullard avenues. The Fresno State students received more than $100 in cash donations and a box full of school supplies for the volunteer program that has more than 65 Fresno State student volunteers. Jumpstart matches Bulldogs with low-income preschoolers Sixty-nine Fresno State students are tutoring this year through Jumpstart, a national nonprofit early-education program that helps low-income preschool children improve language, literacy, social interaction and initiative skills. The students will provide more than 22,000 hours of community service. More...

Learning Resource Center, Senior Experience benefit from fundraiser
A few tickets remain for Saddles and Spurs on the San Joaquin, a fundraiser at 6 p.m. Friday, May 5, at the Fresno County Sportsmen’s Club that benefits the Learning Resource Center and the Senior Experience. Tickets for the Western-themed event that features a performance by the Sons of the San Joaquin, are available at $40 per person by calling 278.4189.

Student mediators will be recognized  at Fresno State on May 11
Elementary and middIe school students and community mediators will gather at Fresno State on May 11 to be recognized on the fourth annual Mediator Appreciation Day. The day will honor more than 300 children for their conflict resolution service at their schools.  The program is presented by the Kremen School of Education and Human Development, the Peace and Conflict Studies Program and University Outreach Services. More...

Nursing professor wins NAACP Image Award in health
Dr. Gozil Oxley, a nursing professor at Fresno State, received the 2006 Image Award for her contributions to health care in the area. The award was presented by the Fresno Chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Oxley first joined the faculty in 1987, left in 1990 and returned in 1994. She has worked on a number of proposals for research on pregnant teams of various ethnic/racial backgrounds.

Tutor, volunteer firefighter is Student Volunteer of the Year
Junior Patrick Cary, a mechanical engineering student, was chosen Fresno State’s Student Volunteer of the Year for tutoring children with Jumpstart Fresno, serving as a volunteer firefighter and working as a caregiver to a family with four special-needs children. Marketing professor emeritus Dr. Charles “Skip” Sherwood received the Volunteer Center of Fresno County’s Spirit of Caring Award for helping spearhead the ReadFresno book drive last fall. More...