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California State University has just released it's latest newletter at the Bulldog Byte.

Art professor's book focuses on NE India - Joan Krejcar Sharma, an associate professor in the Department of Art and Design at California State University, Fresno, has published a collection of photographs and text illuminating Mithila artists in northeastern India. [read more]

New dispensers for courtesy parking permits - California State University, Fresno has installed a new visitor parking program that requires campus guests to display a permit obtained from one of 16 newly installed automated permit dispensers around the campus. [read more]

State clarifies Cal Grant benefits - The California Student Aid Commission is informing CSU campuses, including Fresno State, that Cal Grant fee awards will be adjusted to cover the CSU’s recent student fee increase of $672 per year. [read more]

Fresno State Culinology® professor goes to sea in Navy’s Adopt-A-Ship program - Klaus Tenbergen, director of the Culinology® Program at California State University, Fresno, served aboard the guided missile destroyer USS Halsey for a week helping improve culinary practices for Navy chefs though the Naval Supply Systems Command's Adopt-A-Ship program. [read more]

Robots help teachers in math, science instruction - School children are not the only ones enjoying various camps at California State University, Fresno this summer. Teachers are learning at the two-week Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Leadership Institute. [read more]

Sen. Cogdill leads tribute on Senate floor to Jordan family - The California State Senate today (July 13, 2009) honored the Jordan family for their generous donation of $29.4 million to the California State University, Fresno College of Agricultural Sciences and Technology, now known as the Jordan College of Agricultural Sciences and Technology. The donation, from the late Hanabul “Bud” Jordan, and his brother, the late Lowell Jordan, is the largest single cash gift ever given to any California State University. Bud ran a general contracting business in Hayward and Lowell ranched cattle in Dublin. [read more]

Dr. John Suen selected as Geological Society fellow - Dr. John Suen, a professor of earth and environmental sciences at California State University, Fresno, will become a fellow of the Geological Society of America.  Suen will be honored Oct. 17-19 at the society’s annual meeting in Portland, OR. [read more]