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News Release: Eagle Lake Field Station Continues To Offer Facilities for Research and Recreation
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 22, 2009
CONTACT: Kathleen McPartland
Tel: 530-898-4260
Jay Bogiatto, Biological Sciences
530-898-4490
Eagle Lake Field Station Continues To Offer Facilities for Research and Recreation
The Eagle Lake Field Station (ELFS) remains open for business, despite changes in management. The field station is owned by California State University, Chico Research Foundation and the University and was managed by the Research Foundation through August of this year.
Due to a variety of financial issues, the Research Foundation terminated their existing ELFS projects and entered a lease agreement with John and Tracey Crowe, who have served as ELFS staff for several years. The ELFS is still available to those wishing to schedule academic activities or enjoy recreational fishing.
The field station, sited on 80 acres on the middle eastern shore of Eagle Lake, lies at the juncture of four major geologic provinces. The lake is bordered on the west by the Cascade Range, on the south by the Sierra Nevada, on the east by the arid Great Basin Desert, and on the north by the Modoc Plateau. This geologic diversity provides for a unique set of ecological communities. In addition to the highly diverse geologic and ecological landscapes of the region, the lake supports one of California’s most well known native fish, the Eagle Lake rainbow trout. This endemic trout population provides a unique fishing opportunity to those wishing to engage in fishing activities at one of Northern California’s most pristine and aesthetically attractive lakes.
The complete news release is available online.
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News Release: University Hosts All Majors Career and Internship Fair
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 22, 2009
CONTACT: Kathleen McPartland
Tel: 530-898-4260
University Hosts All Majors Career and Internship Fair
The California state University, Chico Career Center will host its fall All Majors Career and Internship Fair, Wednesday, Nov. 4, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the BMU Auditorium.
Attendees such as PG&E, Gallo Sales Company, Resort at Squaw Creek, Target, CHP and Blue Shield of California will interact with a variety of students from across campus seeking internships and full-time positions.
“Career Fairs at Chico State continue to be strong, even in light of the current challenging economic times,” said Career Center Director Jamie Starmer. “Students continue to make significant professional contacts at our career fairs, which lead directly to professional jobs and internships.”
The complete news release is available online.
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News Release: An Evening with Nikki Giovanni Tomorrow, Friday, October 23
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 22, 2009
CONTACT: Kathleen McPartland
Tel: 530-898-4260
Tracy Butts, Multicultural and Gender Studies
530-898-5151
An Evening with Nikki Giovanni Tomorrow, Friday, October 23
Grammy-nominated poet, activist and author Nikki Giovanni will present a public reading on Oct. 23, 7 p.m., in the Bell Memorial Union, California State University, Chico. The event is free and open to the public.
Giovanni is a professor of English and the Gloria D. Smith Professor of Black Studies at Virginia Tech, where she has taught since 1987.
Giovanni’s early poetry collections include “Black Feeling, Black Talk” (1967), “Black Judgment” (1968), and “Re: Creation” (1970). More recently, she has published “Bicycles: Love Poems” (2009); “Acolytes” (2007); “The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni: 1968-1998”; and “Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea: Poems and Not-Quite Poems” (2002).
The complete news release is available online.
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Great Gift: 2010 Chico Poster Calendar
The poster-sized calendar created each year by Academic Technologies features a color photo of the azalea garden and Kendall Hall. This 17” × 23” wall calendar, with a photo by Brenden Price, university photography intern, is great for a gift or an addition to your office.
Calendars are available at the library copy center (Rapid Graphics) MLIB 204, AS Bookstore, or we’ll deliver to your department office.
— $3.99 each, 6 or more $2.99 each
— Add $3 per poster for lamination
— Sales tax will be added to cash, ATM, and credit card transactions, but not to CAFs
— Large quantity discounts available
— CAFs accepted. Send to Zip 005
For quantity discounts or deliveries call x4499. For more information or to see a photo of the calendar see Web site.
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University's Needy Children Program - Opportunity Drawing
The University’s Needy Children Program is conducting their annual opportunity drawing. Click on this flyer to check out all the wonderful prizes that were donated by our generous local merchants. You can win one of these great prizes by contacting your Staff Council representative or by contacting Dana Francis at 4723. Donations are 1-5 tickets $1; 6 tickets for $5; 15 tickets for $10. All money collected will go toward grocery certificates for each family that is adopted and for last minute gifts for children. You may contact the Staff Council Office for more information x6156. Ticket sales end Nov. 6 and drawing will be on Nov. 10. You will be notified if you have won a prize. Thank you in advance for your continued support.
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New Schedule for Issuing University Checks
Effective Nov. 2, 2009, Accounts Payable and Travel Accounting will be issuing checks on Monday, Wednesday and Friday only. This change is due to time constraints imposed by State furloughs. Please plan your check requests accordingly. Thank you for your understanding during these difficult times.
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Anthropology Forum Today
Thurs., Oct. 22
Ayres Hall 120
4pm
The Anthropology Forum for today is “Goats, Sheep, and Perilous Potholes, Part III: The Third Field Season at Betty’s Hope Archaeological Field Project, Summer 2009” presented by Dr. Georgia Fox, Department of Anthropology.
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College of ECC Lunch Bag Lecture: Catalyst Blitz Build 2010
Wed., Oct. 28
12pm - 12:50pm
O’Connell 254
College of ECC Lunch Bag Lecture
Catalyst “Blitz Build” 2010
Transitional Housing for Victims of Domestic Violence
College of ECC Traditional Winter Break
Community Service Project
Learn more about the ECC Winter Break Community Service Project and how you can get involved. We are seeking Faculty/Staff participation.
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University Film Series: THE SACRIFICE, Nov. 10
University Film Series
Tuesdays at 7:30pm
Ayres 106 (Little Theatre)
$3 donation appreciated
Nov. 10
The Sacrifice (Offret-Sacrificatio) (1986, Sweden) 145 min. Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky. Sponsored by the Humanities Center and introduced by Troy Jollimore, Philosophy and Humanities Center*
This film is a haunting vision of a world threatened with nuclear annihilation. As a wealthy Swedish family celebrates the birthday of their patriarch, Alexander (Erland Josephson), their mood of celebration turns horrific when news of the outbreak of World War III reaches their remote Baltic island. With his arresting palette of luminous grays washing over the bleak landscape—captured on film by Ingmar Bergman’s longtime collaborator Sven Nykvist—Tarkovsky conveys the family’s psychological devastation as they enter into a waking nightmare. Faced with certain extinction, Alexander performs the ultimate sacrifice, entering into a Faustian bargain with God to save his loved ones from the “sickening, animal fear” which grips them. The director’s final film, made as he was dying of cancer, this is a profoundly moving personal masterpiece, a redemptive tragedy steeped in unforgettable imagery and heart-wrenching emotion.
- Part of the Humanities Center’s year-long theme “Memory, Nostalgia, Ruins.”
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Pilobolus is coming to Chico Nov. 8 - Dance, Mime, Acrobats & Theater
Chico Performances presents the innovative dance troupe, Pilobolus performing on Nov. 8 in Laxson Auditorium at 7:30pm.
Ever-evolving - and always surprising - the members of Pilobolus are not only dancers: they are also acrobats and theater and mime artists; as zany as the Marx Brothers, as clever as Houdini; poets who convert their bodies into interchangeable and interlocking parts. This troupe of superhuman artistic athletes continues to turn heads and eyes with its novel approach to gravity, balance, and over-the-top partnerings. Especially entrancing is their shadow work featured at the 2007 Academy Awards. This performance is supported, in part, by the Western States Arts Federation and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Tickets for this performance are $26 for Premium, $21 for Adult, $19 for Senior and $15 for Student/Child.
To purchase tickets and get more information please visit the Web site or call the University Box Office at 898-6333.
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Pulitzer Prize-Winning Historian To Speak at CSU, Chico, Oct. 28
Daniel Walker Howe, professor emeritus at Oxford University and UCLA, will deliver the Joanna Dunlap Cowden Memorial Lecture on Wed., Oct. 28, 7:30pm, in PAC 134. Howe’s talk is based on his book, “What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848” (Oxford, 2008), which won the Pulitzer Prize for history in 2008.
Howe’s lecture will examine the technological changes that revolutionized American life between 1815 and 1848 and helped transform the United States from what we would call a Third World country into a major power within 33 years.
A distinguished historian of the early American republic, Professor Howe is the author or editor of eight books and dozens of scholarly articles and book reviews. His specialties include religious and intellectual topics, including the moral and political culture of the Whig party.
The lecture honors the memory of Joanna Dunlap Cowden, a longtime CSU, Chico faculty member and history department chair. A specialist in the antebellum and Civil War history of the United States, Cowden’s book “Heaven Will Frown on Such as This: Six Democrats Who Opposed Lincoln’s War,” was published shortly before her death in 2001.
A reception in Trinity 100 will follow the lecture.
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Multicultural Bookfair This Weekend
CSU Multicultural Community Collaboration Committee is hosting a Barnes & Noble Multicultural Bookfair this weekend. All monies raised during our bookfair at Barnes & Noble Bookstore (2031 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway) will support our 2010 Scholarship program for local ethnic youth for higher education in Butte County.
A percentage of net sale purchases (including in-store Starbucks purchases) made on Oct. 24 & 25 between the hours of 9am - 10pm will support our scholarship program. Get your holiday shopping done early at Barnes & Noble, and support our local kids.
Fun for kids - raffles, multicultural story time, crafts, Hmong/Mexican cultural exhibits, calligraphic writing, music, and more.
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Adventure Outings UpcomingTrips
Fri., Nov. 6 - Sun., Nov. 8
Students: $89
General: $99
Transportation, instruction, and canoe equipment provided.
Camp on the Mendocino Coast in the Redwoods and paddle in and out of Big River riding tidal currents.
Also offering Thanksgiving break trips:
Nov. 22 - Nov. 28, 2009
Yosemite National Park Fall Tour
Waterfalls, old trees, beautiful lakes, mountains, and friends.
Nov. 22 - Nov. 28
Channel Islands National Park Fall Escape
Explore coastal habitats and spend time camping on ocean islands among wildlife and wildflowers.
Nov. 20 - Nov. 25
Klamath River Expedition
Ride rapids and camp on the river near the Oregon border. Bald Eagles, wild salmon, campfires and big waves.
For more information call 530-898-4011 or visit the Web site. Sign up with AO in the WREC today.
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CSU, Chico Employees in Need of Donated Leave Credits
The following employees are in need of donated leave credits:
• LANCE CRUMB (Staff, Facilities Management and Services)
• DENISE GAVELLO (Staff, Accounting Operations)*
• MARY MINER (Staff, Student Health Service)*
• DARCY NELSON (Staff, Facilities Management and Services)
• GLENN SIMMONS (Staff, Facilities Management and Services)
• STEVEN STULL (Staff, Facilities Management and Services)
- Because this employee is caring for ill family member, only vacation leave credits may be donated.
Any CSU, Chico employee who accrues sick leave or vacation leave credits may donate leave credits to other eligible employees on the CSU, Chico campus, regardless of bargaining unit affiliation. Associated Student employees and CSU, Chico University Research Foundation employees are not eligible to donate leave credits to CSU, Chico employees.
If you wish to donate leave credits, you will need to sign the catastrophic leave donation list - which is maintained at the Payroll/Benefits Customer Service Counter (Kendall 222).
Because your signature is required, your donations cannot be accepted over the phone or via e-mail.
Per Catastrophic Leave Program guidelines, only the Disability Programs Office or a union representative may solicit for Catastrophic Leave donations; solicitation by any other party is prohibited.
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Approaches to Creating a Veteran-Friendly Campus (Webinar), Nov. 17
Individuals choose military service for various reasons, including funding for college. This webinar will examine the unique needs and challenges associated with this population, and offer strategies and programs. The following specific topics will be covered:
• Introduction to the new GI Bill;
• Stressors of transition to campus (mental health and medical);
• “Battlemind to Homemind”: Readjustment reactions following deployment;
• Support Services needed to create a veterans-centered campus;
• Recommendations from veterans regarding classroom expectations and engagement;
• Administration buy-in to create seamless programs and services; and
• Statewide initiatives to partner the Veterans Administration with policy makers and those in higher education.
Webinar Presenters:
• Bob Ackerman, associate professor, Department of Educational Leadership, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
• Derek Blumke, executive director, Student Veterans of America
• Deborah Casey, dean of student services, Green River Community College
Title: DIVR - Approaches to Creating a Veteran-friendly Campus Webinar
Session: Nov. 17, 2009 (Tues.) 11am - 12:30pm, Studio A (Basement of the library)
Contact: Tray Robinson, x4764
To register for the class, go to the Web site. If you have trouble registering, please e-mail Tray Robinson. or USDP@csuchico.edu
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