Inside: 2 Ernst & Young Helps CSUN Students 2 Gov. Schwarzenegger’s Campus Visit 3 FYI 4 KCET’s Huell Howser at Oviatt’s ‘Wish You Were Here’ Exhibit 4 Calendar Vol. XII · No. 13 March 3, 2008 Cal State Northridge—The Intellectual, Economic and Cultural Heart of the San Fernando Valley and Beyond Fellowship Program Marks CSUN’s Vibrant Research Fellows Will Have Opportunity to Engage in Compelling Research, Creative Activities iting the university’s move into Dean Sue Curzon, the exceptional more advanced degree programs range and diversity of research and and its “increasingly vibrant creative activity on the campus will C r research focus,” Provost and Vice be highlighted. Importantly, said the e u a President for Academic Affairs Harry B dean, the Research Fellows program r e d Hellenbrand has announced the n will provide faculty with new oppor- a x e creation of the first California State l tunities to contribute to their fields of A y University, Northridge Research b study. “All of society benefits,” Curzon o t o Fellows program. h said, “when new knowledge is P The program affords honored Vicentiu Covrig Owen Doonan Adele Eskeles Xiyi Hang generated.” fellows the opportunity to pursue Gottfried Fellows will report the results of compelling research or creative activity their research or creative activity to during the 2008 –09 academic year. their deans and to the provost. Once Fellows will have a reduced teaching a year, the Oviatt Library will host a l l e load during the year, but will continue h colloquium in which the fellows will c t i committee and service activities. M share their work with the campus k c i o R Emerging from a competitive o community. f h o C y s selection process that began in fall e Faculty committees reviewed e e t L r u y 2007, the first Research Fellows in the o proposals for the projects, which b C S o o t program include Vicentiu Covrig of t reflect a diverse field of scholarship: o o h h P the College of Business and Economics; P Lindsay Hansen Rick Mitchell Suzanne Scheld Ben Yaspelkis III Owen Doonan of the Curb College Vicentiu Covrig (Finance, Real Estate of Arts, Media, and Communication; and Insurance). Covrig will study Adele Eskeles Gottfried of the Michael Health and Human Development. The best way to do that is to link how U.S. and foreign professional D. Eisner College of Education; Xiyi “Faculty here do a tremendous the research program to the library, money managers suffer from the Hang of the College of Engineering amount of research and creative work said Hellenbrand. “Even in the age behavioral biases of overconfidence and Computer Science; Lindsay that enlightens, delights, and enriches,” of the Web,” he said, “we depend on and “herding,” the concerted movement Hansen of the Oviatt Library; Rick said Provost Hellenbrand. “Such the library for the organization of of large investor groups into or out Mitchell of the College of Humanities; pursuit of knowledge is a good in knowledge so that, as scholars and of a security based on fear. His will Suzanne Scheld of the College of itself, even as much of it is practically artists, we can add to it.” be the first systematic examination of Social and Behavioral Sciences; and useful. We want to recognize these With this new program for tenured non-U.S. investors’ behavior. Ben Yaspelkis III of the College of achievements.” and tenure-track faculty, said Library New Fellowship Program continued on page 2. Environment Meets Entrepreneurism in Hawken’s World Creator of Smith & Hawken Catalog Giant Brings Green Ideas to ‘Speak Your Mind’ Event he man who created Smith & study that former President Bill Clinton mentalist/entrepreneur/social activist/ worldwide movement for social and Hawken, the $75 million catalog has called one of the five most author, will bring his several personas environmental change. T and retail company said to have important books in today’s world. to Cal State Northridge for a 12:30 p.m. Free tickets to the special event changed the course of American The same man founded or co- Speak Your Mind series lecture will be available at the Associated gardening, is also the co-author of founded several groundbreaking Thursday, March 13, in the Plaza del Students ticket office beginning “Natural Capitalism: Creating the natural food companies dedicated to Sol Performance Hall, University March 3 for students, faculty and Next Industrial Revolution,” an sustainable agricultural methods. Student Union. In his remarks, the staff. Faculty are encouraged to bring environment-meets-entrepreneurism Paul Hawken, trailblazing environ - renowned activist will examine the Speak Your Mind continued on page 2. Nonprofit Org. U.S.Postage PAID California State University 18111 Nordhoff Street, Northridge, California 91330-8242 Northridge Paul Hawken will share his insights on the worldwide movement for social and environmental change at CSUN’s March 13 “Speak Your Mind” series lecture. Business Students Get a Career Boost from Ernst & Young Firm to Create Career Advancement Center for CSUN Accounting, Information Systems Students al State Northridge alumni and information systems program to a new skills training. It also will provide firm and the university, two Ernst & friends of the university, all level of excellence and significantly placement services, including career Young partners have agreed to teach C professionals from Ernst & Young enhances our students’ profile within days, on-campus interviews, an online tax and audit courses at CSUN. LLP, will match a $500,000 gift the the upper echelon of the accounting job and resume database as well as a Additionally, the firm has committed firm has made to the College of profession and business community,” Web site and placement assistance in to fund up to five “Ernst & Young Business and Economics. Through said William Jennings, college dean. internships and full-time positions. Tax Fellows” at Cal State Northridge the gift and the $500,000 from Ernst “It is particularly meaningful to have The Ernst & Young gift also will annually. The fellows will receive & Young personnel, the university CSUN alumni who are Ernst & Young establish the Winter Accounting Intern- funding for their master’s degrees in will receive in excess of $1 million professionals become stewards to the ship Program, which will enable taxation, as well as mentoring and over the next five years. next generation, helping our students students to participate in a full-time additional scholarships. The funds will be used to establish see firsthand their own potential.” internship during the school year. “We are excited to provide CSUN the Ernst & Young Center for Career The Ernst & Young Center for The program will allow participating with these critical resources,” said Advancement, which will provide Career Advancement will offer advice students to continue to accumulate Ernst & Young Vice Chair Peter Griffith . career counseling and placement and support specifically tailored to academic credits toward their degrees “We have been extremely happy services to more than 1,300 students those students seeking careers in by funding faculty to teach them with the quality of CSUN students in CSUN’s College of Business and accounting and information systems. accelerated upper-division accounting and are looking forward to having Economics who are pursuing careers The Ernst & Young Center’s offerings classes. even more of them join our firm in in accounting and information systems. will include career coaching, resume Further cementing the relationship the years ahead.” ᭿ “This takes CSUN’s accounting and writing, interviewing and job search between the professional services New Fellowship Program… continued from page 1. ences and historical conflicts related Owen Doonan (Art). In addition to “Faculty here do to the Iraq War and—significantly— organizing an international workshop the battle over the control of scientific in Turkey on the archaeology of a tremendous amount of research knowledge and technology. ancient Greek Miletus and its colonies, Doonan will edit volumes on the and creative work that enlightens, Suzanne Scheld (Anthropology). In light archaeology project he leads in the of China’s much-debated presence Black Sea region, a “Dictionary of delights, and enriches.” on the African continent, Scheld will Black Sea Antiquity,” and will expand produce two papers: one exploring the the catalog for the CSUN exhibition, —Harry Hellenbrand political, economic and socio-cultural “Post-Colonial Arts of Tunisia,” into a Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs underpinnings of Chinese landown- major publication. ership in Senegal, and another on Xiyi Hang (Electrical and Computer personal interviews with Volkmar the emergence of racial discourse as Adele Eskeles Gottfried (Educational Engineering). Using sophisticated Andrä and Peter Wicke, pivotal popular a response to China in Senegal, class Psychology and Counseling). microarray technology, Hang will music figures during the Cold War. conflicts and related contradictions. Recognizing high school course develop and apply to the diagnosis Hansen also will investigate the selections as a “gateway” to student of cancer an important new “machine production of Weisses Gold, an Ben Yaspelkis III (Kinesiology). In his success, Gottfried will use a longi- learning-based classifier” of genetic important work about the history research on diabetes, Yaspelkis will tudinal study from elementary school data from cancerous and normal cells. of porcelain. utilize two rodent models of insulin through college to examine the The accuracy of cancer diagnosis resistance (high-fat diet induced vs. hypothesis that academic intrinsic depends greatly on the selected Rick Mitchell (English). Mitchell will genetic) to assess why insulin action motivation, achievement and classifier, Hang said. write and “workshop” a new, full- in skeletal muscle is impaired. He parental involvement positively length play called “Anthropology.” then will determine whether aerobic impact course selections and Lindsay Hansen (Oviatt Library).