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Geologist/Environmental Scientist Compiles Data on High-Altitude Wind as Renewable Energy Source
Published: June 24th, 2009
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June 24, 2009
Kathleen McPartland
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Cristina Archer
Geological and Environmental Sciences
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Geologist/Environmental Scientist Compiles Data on High-Altitude Wind as Renewable Energy Source
Cristina Archer, faculty in the Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences at California State University, Chico, has collaborated with Ken Caldeira of the Carnegie Institution’s Department of Global Ecology to compile the first-ever global survey of wind energy at high altitudes.
Friends of the Herbarium Offer Summer Workshops
Published: June 15th, 2009
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June 15, 2009
Kathleen McPartland
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Lawrence Janeway, Herbarium
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Friends of the Herbarium Offer Summer Workshops
Friends of the Herbarium are offering several workshops this summer. Registration is open now.
Faculty Expert Database
A list of CSU, Chico faculty areas of expertise
Paul Lopez
Sociology
Dr. Paul Lopez's book The Braceros: The Untold Stories is scheduled to come out this spring from Kendall/Hunt Publishers. Other areas of expertise include Chicano/Latino Studies, labor markets, and public policy.
Janya Lalich
Sociology
Dr. Lalich is an international leader in the exploration of cults and extremist ideologies. She is the author of Bounded Choice: True Believers and Charismatic Cults and Take Back Your Life: Recovering from Cults and Abusive Relationships.
Jinsong Zhang
Organic Chemistry
Dr. Zhang has received several awards for her work with the synthesis of natural compounds with potential medicinal uses. At CSU, Chico since 2006, she received a two-year Research Corporation grant that supports her work with undergraduate students.
Tanya Wattenburg Komas
Concrete Industry Management (CIM) Program
Dr. Komas is the director of CIM, one of five such programs in the nation. She took CIM students to Pointe Du Hoc, Normandy, France, in spring 2008 to assist in the evaluation of concrete bunkers at the World War II D-Day landing site.
Robert Tinkler
History
Dr. Tinkler is the Outstanding Teacher of the Year, 2008-2009. He is the author of James Hamilton of South Carolina (Louisiana State University Press, 2004). His fields of interest are the American South, Civil War, and Reconstruction.
Duane Knudson
Kinesiology
Dr. Knudson has three primary areas of research: biomechanics of tennis, biomechanics of stretching, and qualitative analysis. He was interviewed and quoted on his research on the biomechanics of stretching in the November 2008 issue of the New York Times sports magazine, Play.
Diana Dwyre
Political Science
Dr. Dwyre's fields of expertise are campaign financing, parties and elections, and congressional elections. She is the co-author, with Victoria A. Farrar-Myers, of Limits and Loopholes: The Quest for Money, Free Speech, and Fair Elections.
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