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		December 8th, 2011 White House Honors SDSU Alumna Two-time San Diego State University alumnae Angela Byars-Winston ('91, '92) was one of 12 men and women honored by the White House as 'Champions of Change.' The event recognizes leaders in the effort to recruit and retain girls and women in science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM fields."

		December 2nd, 2011 Beyond Sprawl: Trying To Swap Nails For Test Tubes "The industry's secret to success is strong demand," said Stanley Maloy, dean of the College of Sciences at San Diego State University. "There are so many questions out there to be asked. Almost every one of those questions has an opportunity in biotechnology. We have opportunities for innovation..."

		December 2nd, 2011 Fight the Pressure to Over-Schedule: 10 Tips to Take Back Your Family Dr Jean Twenge, a psychology professor at San Diego State University, found that today's children & college age students are overburdened to a degree once seen in child psychiatric patients in the 1950's.

		December 1st, 2011 San Diego Landmark Could Disappear Dr. Pat Abbott, a geology professor at San Diego State University, said there's no way to pinpoint exactly when the cliffs will eventually disappear. "It's hard to say because we don't just let nature run its course out there," he said. "Make no mistake--the walls do not stop the erosion," he said. "They slow down the wave attack, but ultimately it will collapse."

		December 1st, 2011 CAPS Asks College Students What Role Overpopulation Plays in Challenges Ahead as Planet Surpasses 7 Billion People "This unchecked growth has significant consequences to the state's long-term sustainability," says Stuart Hurlbert, emeritus professor of biology at San Diego State University and board secretary for CAPS. "Policy decisions we do - or don't - make related to growth now will define California for years to come..."

		November 29th, 2011 Forget The Rumors: Why Pfizer Might be Incentivized to Acquire Lpath Outright Dr. Roger Sabbadini, currently a professor emeritus at San Diego State University, is Lpath's founder. He has helped developed a unique way to screen bioactive lipids and develop monoclonal antibodies against them. This has enabled the small biotech to develop drugs against pathways which aren't even being targeted by other companies.

		November 24th, 2011 Urban 'Cesspool' Turns to Showpiece Over Decades Research by Rebecca Lewison, an ecologist at San Diego State University who studies toxins in San Diego Bay species, supports what regulators have said: The sediment near the two shipyards remains laced with heavy metals and chemicals that are the legacy of industrial and municipal practices in decades past.

		November 22nd, 2011 Should We Worry About Shaking on San Jacinto Fault? There's been a series of small, but sometimes noticeable earthquakes, occurring on and near the San Jacinto fault. We turned to San Diego State University geologist Tom Rockwell to find out whether the shaking is something we should be worrying about.

		November 18th, 2011 Cyber-Bullying: Lethal Combo of Culture and Technology "The main problem is that what so many people consider under the umbrella of 'bullying' are actually illegal events," Sattler said. "At the same time, how do you preserve freedom of speech while preventing this type of cyber-bullying?"

		November 17th, 2011 Black Hole Birth Announcement "We now know that Cygnus X-1 is one of the most massive stellar black holes in the Milky Way," said Jerry Orosz, of San Diego State University. "It's spinning as fast as any black hole we've ever seen," he added.

		November 15th, 2011 Fin Massage Relieves Stress in Surgeonfish Todd Anderson, a biologist at San Diego State University, California, who studies the ecology of reef fishes, says he's surprised that physical contact lowers stress in fish.

		November 10th, 2011 SDSU Researchers Find Coral More Susceptible to Herpes Viruses When Stressed SDSU biology professor Forest Rohwer and post-doctoral researcher Rebecca Vega Thurber found that the more "stressed" coral was, the more likely the herpes virus was to replicate. The finding is particularly important because past research focused mostly on fungal and bacterial infections and nothing was known about viruses in corals.

		November 10th, 2011 New Surfing Record may be Broken at Cortes Bank San Diego State University geologist Pat Abbott said, "Cortes Bank is one of the premier wave spots because of a valley that cuts through the underwater ridges. The water funnels into that valley, then hits the Cortes Bank and then rises into a huge wave."

		November 9th, 2011 Asteroid Passes Close to Earth Dr. Jerry Orosz with San Diego State University was also following the rock. He said this one won't enter Earth's atmosphere, but in the future we could get a direct hit by a very large asteroid and the results aren't good.

		November 7th, 2011 Looking at New Ways to Learn Math, Science "I think it's very important to expand the framework of mathematics and science, show people that math is not just cold formulas," Nemirovsky said. "We try to expand the experience to take into account emotional and aesthetic expression."

		November 7th, 2011 The Youngest Dinosaur Fragment Yet? David Archibald, a dinosaur expert at San Diego State University in California who argues for a "multiple causes" theory, says that the find changes nothing. "The basic error of the authors is the belief that finding one fragment of dinosaur suddenly makes this gap go away [when] it does not," he says.

		November 7th, 2011 Younger Generation's Weak Work Ethic may be Factor in Wide Wealth Gap Jean Twenge, author of Generation Me and professor at SDSU, said younger generations are more likely to say they don't want to work very hard. They value their leisure more and work is generally not the center of their lives, Twenge's report states.

		October 28th, 2011 Poor Neighborhoods Can Harm Health "Many low-income communities lack access to parks, recreation areas and sources of healthy foods. Residents of poor neighborhoods are more concerned about traffic and crime, and those factors play a significant role in preventing participation in outdoor activity in their communities."

		October 25th, 2011 Women Donors Fund Science Scholarships The San Diego Chapter of Achievement Rewards for College Scientists ARCS® Foundation awarded $120,000 in scholarship support for 16 Ph.D. students in the College of Sciences. Leaders of the local chapter presented the check to President Elliot Hirshman on Oct. 12 2011

		October 20th, 2011 Baja to get Quake Detection System "Science does not have borders," said Pat Abbott, a geologist at San Diego State University. "It could come 50 years from now or it could be this afternoon, Every year that passes we get closer to the big one."

		October 20th, 2011 Viruses Stay Local Stromatolite samples collected from two pozas in 2004 were examined by several co-authors in the research group of San Diego State University biologist Forest Rohwer, who has prepared the world's largest database of phage DNA.

		October 15th, 2011 A Lobster Hunt Unlike Most The joint effort between lobster fishermen, state wildlife regulators, Kevin Hovel of San Diego State University, Ed Parnell, of Scripps Institute of Oceanography, and ocean advocates successfully marked 5,000 lobsters between San Diego and Dana Point...

		October 14th, 2011 'Tatooine' Planet with Two Suns Discovered "It's hard to overstate what a great advance the Kepler Mission is," said Professor Jerome Orosz, SDSU astronomy professor, who is a part of the team of scientists analyzing Kepler data. "Likewise, the discovery of Kepler-16 is perhaps the biggest discovery in exoplanet studies since the discovery of 51 Pegasi."

		October 13th, 2011 Just what's on the bottom of San Diego Bay? The work is an outgrowth of the Center for Bay and Coastal Dynamics, which unites efforts at San Diego State University, the University of California San Diego, Hubbs-SeaWorld Research Institute and the Unified Port District of San Diego. Its data will be made public so other groups can use it, and translated into curriculum for local schools.

		October 11th, 2011 Site Folds Gaming into Scientific Discovery There is a game in cyberspace that has been causing quite a stir among gamers and scientists, SDSU chemistry professors John Love and Tom Huxford offered their expertise about the subject.

		October 9th, 2011 S.D. Scientist Finds Sea Turtles in Strange Places "We pinch ourselves all the time," said Alexander Gaos, a doctoral student in a joint ecology program at SDSU and the University of California Davis. "Only three years ago people thought they were gone, and now look at us."

		October 4th, 2011 Opinion: Want to live longer? Build Walking into Your Routine "Sloth is killing us," James Sallis said at the international Walk21 conference in Vancouver. "Everybody's talking about obesity and weight, but nobody is talking about physical activity."

		October 4th, 2011 Exploding Stars Reveal Pauses, Flickers and Flares As many as five novae bright enough to be detected by the SMEI explode in our galaxy each year, Allen Shafter, astronomy professor at San Diego State University and one of the co-authors of the report have previously estimated, but more than half have gone undetected.

		October 4th, 2011 World Stem Cell Summit Highlights Advances in Regenerative Medicine Mark Sussman, a professor from San Diego State University, called the identification of lung stem cells from human tissue samples capable of regenerating the highly complex and specialized structures of mature lungs a breakthrough in lung biology and regenerative medicine.

		September 30th, 2011 Faculty Fulbright to Study Marine Mammals San Diego State has continued to excel in the international research setting, and its Fulbright recipients are just one example of this accomplishment. Joining the ranks of SDSU recipients is biology professor Annalisa Berta, who will study and present lectures and tutorials on the comparative biology of marine mammals at the University of Pisa, Italy, in October.

		September 26th, 2011 Targeting Killer Bacteria "Many of the most dangerous bacteria are resistant to the multiple broad-spectrum antibiotics that we use now," said microbiologist Stanley Maloy, dean of SDSU's College of Sciences and co-principal investigator on the study.

		September 26th, 2011 NSF Awards $4.6M for Earthquake Study Researchers from San Diego State University's Department of Geology and the San Diego Supercomputer Center at the University of California, San Diego, will assist researchers from six other universities and the U.S. Geological Survey to develop detailed, large-scale computer simulations of earthquake faults under a new $4.6 million National Science Foundation grant.

		September 26th, 2011 Biology Research Garners Award "He is an outstanding research mentor for students at all levels, and an exceptional classroom teacher," Maloy said. "He encourages students to think critically and creatively, and seamlessly integrates current discoveries into the classroom."

		September 26th, 2011 Saving Sea Turtles SDSU grad student Alexander Gaos, found the critically endangered hawksbill turtles, which normally inhabit coral and rocky reefs, living among in-shore mangrove estuaries in the eastern Pacific Ocean. His work provides much-needed data on areas that hawksbills use for nesting, migration and feeding from Mexico to Peru.

		September 15th, 2011 Fireball blazes across San Diego Sky Thousands of people in San Diego and across the Southwest from Phoenix to Los Angeles watched a fireball blaze across the sky Wednesday evening, prompting lots of speculation about UFOs. SDSU professors, Paul Etzel (astronomy) and Pat Abbott (geological sciences) are interviewed by Erica Fox of FOX News.

		September 14th, 2011 Spiny Lobsters 411 "The California spiny lobster is a species of great ecological, economic and cultural significance in Southern California," said Hovel, principal investigator of the team. "As a heavily fished organism in our waters, it is a priority species for protection in the marine protected areas."

		September 14th, 2011 NSF Awards $1M for Computer Science Education The San Diego Supercomputer Center at the University of California, San Diego and San Diego State University, has received National Science Foundation grants to jointly expand the computer sciences curriculum among San Diego's high schools, community colleges and universities.

		September 8th, 2011 9/11 Still Haunts Some Amid Nation's Return to Normalcy But on the whole, 9/11 has not caused a major shift in young people's attitudes, said Jean Twenge, a psychologist at San Diego State University and author of "Generation Me: Why Today's Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled — And More Miserable Than Ever Before."

		August 25th, 2011 Experts Called on for East Coast Quake When the earth shakes in San Diego, Pat Abbot and Tom Rockwell are typically the go-to experts for local media. So when a 5.8 earthquake shook the East Coast this week — something that just doesn't happen very often — the national media also turned to the two San Diego State professors.

		August 4th, 2011 Rural Areas' Lack of Sidewalks Fueling Obesity Problems People who live in neighborhoods with sidewalks tend to be more physically active. Walkable neighborhoods - which are designed for people to walk from their homes to other places - people got 35 to 49 minutes more physical activity each week, according to James Sallis, a professor of psychology at San Diego State University and one of the study's authors.

		August 3rd, 2011 Study Shows Hearts Can Be Repaired with Stem Cells SDSU post-doctoral scholar Sadia Mohsin's study, conducted with SDSU biology Professor Mark Sussman as part of the university's Molecular Biology Laboratory Heart Institute, showed that genetically engineered human cardiac stem cells helped repair damaged heart tissue and improved function after heart attacks in mice.

		August 1st, 2011 Budget Cuts Leave California with Fewer Hands to Fight Wildfires In an interview, SDSU researcher, Dr. Matt Rahn said California is gambling that it won't be burned by bigger fires and higher costs in the end. In particular, he said, cutting Cal Fire engine crews from four firefighters to three could undercut the agency's standard of trying to keep about 95 percent of wildfires to 10 acres or less.

		July 27th, 2011 JROTC Students Explore Biomedical Sciences at SDSU Camp If building remote control robotic devices, studying robotic programming and learning the anatomy of the human heart aren't enough, students will participate in a variety of other activities. The camp also includes learning how the circulatory system functions, making a heart pump, doing a laparoscopic surgery activity, creating a rocket-powered car, attempting to fly an airplane through the use of flight simulators, exploring the use of solar panels and experimenting with hydrogen fuel cell cars.

		July 21st, 2011 Greenhouse is Hidden Gem on Campus Deep within the confines of San Diego State, between the Life Science North and Life Science South buildings, is a spectacular greenhouse, a hidden treasure of the university. Showcasing more than 400 species of plants from around the world, the SDSU greenhouse is a fantastic display of rare and unusual specimens, as well as a place used for teaching and housing many botanic and genetic experiments."

		July 18th, 2011 Sharing A Planet With Volcanoes The San Diego State University Department of Geological Sciences points out that the 'haze effect' bolstered by volcano-released ash and sulfuric acid in the stratosphere helps to offset global warming caused by greenhouse gases. "Without the cooling influence of such eruptions as El Chichon (1982) and Mt. Pinatubo (1991)..."

		July 15th, 2011 SDSC Visualizations Win 'OASCR' Awards at SciDAC 2011 SDSU Geological Sciences professors Kim Olsen and Steven Day were part of team who were recipients of the people's choice OASCR awards at the 2011 SciDAC (Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing Program) conference for their ground motion visualization of an M8 earthquake.

		July 15th, 2011 Adolescent Binge Drinking can Damage Spatial Working Memory SDSU Clinical Psychology doctoral student, Lindsay Squeglia recently published research states: Binge drinking is prevalent during adolescence. Adolescence is also a crucial developmental time for cognitive functioning, including spatial working memory. A new study has found the female may be particularly vulnerable to the negative effects of binge drinking.

		July 12th, 2011 Case Closed for Dino Killer? J. David Archibald, a biologist at San Diego State University in California who thinks that receding inland seas were a key factor in dinosaur extinction, insists that the new paper "is not really news at all"; "finding one fragment of dinosaur [does not] suddenly make this gap go away; the gap is real."

		July 7th, 2011 Protein Battles Deadly Food Pathogen E. coli Dr. Anca Segall of San Diego State and collaborators are now trying to learn more how the peptide inhibits the DNA repair mechanism in the bacteria. One possible outcome of their work is a spray-on wash that could kill bacteria on fruit and vegetable before they are consumed.

		July 5th, 2011 Why are we transfixed by Casey Anthony case? "I think a lot of fascination with her is because she was a poster child for this generation in all the bad ways. All the things people are worried about with this group, it kind of came out with her." said Jean Twenge, professor of psychology at San Diego State University."

		July 5th, 2011 New Home for New Molecular Sciences Computer Cluster The Computational Sciences Research Center (CSRC) has inaugurated the College of Sciences new Server Center by installing the recently purchased Molecular Sciences Computer Cluster (MSCC). The newly renovated server room will become home to the CSRC's wide range of computing equipment.

		June 17th, 2011 College Students More Confident than Previous Generations "With grades and self-perceptions going up and actual ability unchanged or down, we've become a society that favors the appearance of success rather than actual success," said Jean Twenge, San Diego State University psychology professor and lead researcher.

		June 16th, 2011 Mega Region Initiative Launched Business leaders and government officials from Baja California, Mexico; and San Diego and Imperial Counties celebrated together at the Viz Center the signing of a memorandum of understanding that officially launched the Cali-Baja Mega Region initiative, developed to capitalize on the larger region's diversified assets.

		June 7th, 2011 SDSU Students, Alumni Receive Fulbright Grant "I have always liked cutting-edge technology and would like to venture into something that no one has done before--that no one dares to do," Cheung said. "Many people doubt that we will have a commercialized quantum computer soon, but then I can't help to think, 'if we already have internet, what's next?'"

		June 1st, 2011 Two Students Receiving Fellowship Awards Mohsin Khan and Haruhiro Toko were given the awards for their excellent proposals and prior training, as well as the research environment in Mark Sussman's biology research lab. The awards, which support the best science in advancing cures for cardiovascular disease and stroke, are effective July 2011 to June 2013.

		May 27th, 2011 Research Shows Not Only The Fittest Survive Dr. David Lipson of San Diego State University, concluded: "Earlier work showed that opposing food utilisation strategies could coexist in complex environments, but this is the first explanation of how trade-offs, like the one we studied between growth rate and efficiency, can lead to stable diversity in the simplest possible of environments."

		May 26th, 2011 New studies suggest that in autism, Brain may be Overconnected In a study led by SDSU psychology Professor Ralph-Axel Mueller (published in Cerebral Cortex), all existing studies of functional connectivity were surveyed and it was found that a growing number of studies actually show a very different pattern of results, suggesting that in autism, the brain may be partly overconnected.

		May 24th, 2011 Monty Honorees: Outstanding faculty member from each of the university's colleges Forest Rohwer, Ph.D., professor of biology in the College of Sciences, a record of research accomplishment along with service and teaching to San Diego State University and to the greater scientific community is exemplary...

		May 23rd, 2011 Two Aztecs Take Home CSU Research Awards SDSU undergraduate student Alex Liu won first place for his research titled, "Neuropsychological Functioning Predicts Occupational Attainment in an Indian Cohort," as part of the behavioral and social sciences category. Graduate student Martis Cowles was awarded second place for his research titled, "A Planarian Ortholog of Lissencephaly 1 is Required for Stem Cell Maintenance," under the biological and agricultural sciences discipline.

		May 23rd, 2011 Stomach Bug May Be Linked to Parkinson's It is clear that a possible link between Parkinson's disease and the stomach bacterium, Helicobacter pylori, can no longer be ignored. There's enough solid data that it would be wrong not to look into it more closely, said Stanley Maloy.

		May 17th, 2011 "Freedom Riders" College of Sciences Staff Contributes to Film with Her Research SDSU College of Sciences Staff, Holly Roose of the McNair Scholars Program, is a proud member of the research team for the film, Freedom Riders. In 1961, more than 400 black and white Americans risked their lives for simply traveling together on buses and trains as they journeyed through the Deep South.

		May 17th, 2011 The Generosity of Friends: The Campaign for SDSU gains momentum with recent large gifts from several donors. A number of the recent gifts resulted in changes to the names of campus landmarks. Now seen on Montezuma Mesa are the Donald P. Shiley BioScience Center, the Joan and Art Barron Veterans Center and the Fowler Athletics Center.

		May 5th, 2011 SDSU Homeland Security Students Take 3rd Place in DHS Conference Homeland Security Program students James W. Dovine III, Marilu Ramirez, and John Williams took 3rd place in the DHS Science Conference - Fifth Annual University Network Summit's annual Student Day Poster competition, held March 30 - April 1, 2011. This year's theme was "Catastrophes & Complex Systems: Transportation."

		May 4th, 2011 Funding Excellence and Innovation This year's recipients of the President's Leadership Award for Faculty and Staff Excellence: Eric Frost, co-director, graduate program in homeland security, and professor, College of Sciences; Salvarado Espinosa, School of Public Affairs; Steve Fisher, Athletics; Nan McDonald, School of Music and Dance; L. Paul Sutton, and School of Public Affairs.

		May 3rd, 2011 James Sallis Receives National Award San Diego State psychology professor James Sallis will receive a 2011 Lifetime Achievement Award from the President's Council on Fitness, Sports and Nutrition during an upcoming council meeting on May 10.

		April 25th, 2011 Students Stargaze at Laguna Observatory Less than an hour's drive from San Diego State near the Cleveland National Forest, this observatory serves the research needs of SDSU faculty and graduate students alike. The observatory houses four telescopes in all -- the largest one 50 inches wide.

		April 21st, 2011 NSF awards a grant for a high-speed computer network between SDSU and UCSD The National Science Foundation recently awarded SDSU's Computational Science Research Center (CSRC) a grant for a high-speed network that will connect SDSU directly with the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) and the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology.

		April 12th, 2011 $5M Shiley Gift Renames BioScience Center Local philanthropist Darlene Shiley has pledged $5 million to support San Diego State University's BioScience Center. The gift was announced on Saturday, April 9, during a gala celebrating President and Mrs. Stephen L. Weber, who will retire after leading the university for 15 years.

		April 11th, 2011 What's in a Name? Jean Twenge, professor of psychology at San Diego State University said, "whether or not your name sounds upper class might not matter if you do not like it."

		April 8th, 2011 Alcohol Intake During Pregnancy is Bad For the Baby's Hearing According to the study conducted by Jennifer D. Thomas, associate professor of psychology at San Diego State University it was found that alcohol exposure results in circadian dysregulation in human kids.

		April 4th, 2011 ADHD and Prenatal Alcohol Exposure: Comparing Profiles of Learning and Memory Impairments in Two Groups of Children "Children with FASD and ADHD can appear very similar," explained Sarah N. Mattson, a professor in the department of psychology at San Diego State University and corresponding author for the study.

		April 4th, 2011 Big Mexican Quake Changed Thinking about Faults The earthquake occurred on a minor fault that only moves every 10,000 to 20,000 years, so we can add this to Hector Mine and Landers (and possibly Northridge) quakes for large, unexpected earthquakes in Southern California.

		April 3rd, 2011 Can Games Such as Wii Fit get Your Kid Fit? An editorial accompanying the study by San Diego State University psychology professor James F. Sallis states that too much time playing video games could prevent kids from engaging in sports or playtime that would also help fight obesity and keep them healthy.

		March 29th, 2011 SDSU 'Fault Finder' Reveals History of Quakes "Tom can read the story of geology in a way that most people can't," says Ken Hudnut, a geophysicist at the U.S. Geological Survey in Pasadena. "He has this Jedi-like ability to see and sense things."

		March 28th, 2011 Autonomous Helicopter Aerial Imaging for Monitoring of Natural Reserves Mahmoud Tarokh and his team of two graduate students, Paulo Merloti and David Pai, have successfully demonstrated in the field the autonomous helicopter project. The objective is to apply a robotic helicopter for environmental monitoring in the wetlands, particularly at the Tijuana River National Estuary.

		March 28th, 2011 Hands-On Science Fair Students from Black Student Science Organization (BSSO) held a science event for Walter J. Porter Elementary School. The students learned about DNA extractions, a biodome, and featured a lemon juice bottle rocket to teach chemistry.

		March 22nd, 2011 Graduate Programs Rank Among Best in Nation More than a dozen San Diego State University graduate programs are ranked among the nation's best in U.S. News and World Report's "America's Best Graduate Schools 2012," which was released online March 15.

		March 15th, 2011 Middle and High Schoolers Explore STEM Ask a friend what "STEM" means and you may get a blank stare. But, as soon as Cynthia Park, executive director of the SDSU Pre-College Institute asked last Friday, dozens of young people immediately answered.

		March 7th, 2011 Stimulating Weekend for Student Researchers It was a stimulating weekend at the fourth annual Student Research Symposium as more than 400 undergraduate and graduate students exhibited their research projects in Montezuma Hall.

		March 1st, 2011 Superfluid state for Galaxy's youngest neutron star? Fridolin Weber of San Diego State University in California, who was not involved in either team's analysis, calls the research "a very important contribution" because it uses the theory of superfluidity to provide a testable explanation for the rapidly cooling star.

		February 25th, 2011 Forum Connects Students with Local Tech Industry "Computational science makes the use of computers easier by developing computational models," said Jose Castillo, SDSU mathematics and statistics professor and director of the SDSU Computational Science Research Center (CSRC).

		February 4th, 2011 New Maps First to Track Global Coastal Fishing Activity "Quantifying fishing efforts is a necessary measure of fishing activity, and is a key link to evaluating sustainability and environmental impacts of coastal fisheries," said Rebecca Lewison, SDSU biology professor and lead researcher on the project.

		February 3rd, 2011 SDSU astronomy professors played a large part in analyzing data about new planets, including some Earth-size candidates. "The interesting thing is that we found a planetary system with six planets that were all eclipsing," said Bill Welsh, SDSU astronomy professor and one of nine astronomers nationwide serving as a participating scientist for the mission. "This shows us that we're going to find planetary systems, not just cases of one star with one planet circling it."

		February 2nd, 2011 BioScience Center Research Paves Way for Better Vaccines Researchers in SDSU's BioScience Center have developed a new adjuvant for vaccines that could improve their effectiveness. The new technology could also allow for the development of new vaccines to prevent viral, bacterial and fungal infections, as well as several forms of cancer.

		January 26th, 2011 Students Go 'Under the Boat' Mix one part class assignment, one part marine science, two parts humor and add a dash of Spongebob Squarepants, Finding Nemo and Flounder from The Little Mermaid. What do you get?

		January 13th, 2011 Aziz Awarded Young Arab Scientist Prize Dr. Ramy Aziz, SDSU Computer Sciences postdoc and adjunct faculty, was recently awarded the TWAS-ARO Young Arab Scientist (YAS) prize 2010 for his various contributions and efforts in the field of "Biodiversity Conservation and Informatics."

		January 11th, 2011 Meadowbrook Middle School's AVID Class Visit to the Computer Science Department Poway Meadowbrook Middle School's Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID) program visited SDSU on November 29th, 2010. In addition to the typical SDSU tour, the class stopped by the Computer Science Department to hear about computer science opportunities and participate in a research demonstration.

		January 7th, 2011 Study Shows that CPAP Therapy Reduces Fatigue, Increases Energy in Patients with Sleep Apnea "This was one of the first double-blind studies of the effects of CPAP on fatigue," said lead author Lianne Tomfohr, graduate research assistant in the joint doctoral program at San Diego State University and the University of California, San Diego."

		January 4th, 2011 Ph.D. Programs Rank Among Best in the Nation The National Research Council named the SDSU-UCSD joint-doctoral programs in speech-language pathology and clinical psychology among the top 10

		December 17th, 2010 Taking the No-No out of Nano The Electron Microscopy Facility, in the Physical Sciences building, was recently awarded $708,000 from the National Science Foundation to acquire a new scanning electron microscope (SEM) that can take the no-no out of nano and make supersized images of miniscule objects.

		December 16th, 2010 Thirdhand Smoke's Lingering Effects "We found that thirdhand smoke is trapped on surfaces like walls and ceilings and in household dust and carpets left over by previous residents," said Georg Matt, San Diego State psychology professor and lead researcher of the study, the first to examine whether THS persists in smokers homes after they move out."

		December 9th, 2010 Astronomers Find Fluctuations in Exploding Stars Three of the novae stalled before reaching a peak, and all flickered or flared as the explosions ran their course, according to a new article in the Astrophysical Journal co-authored by San Diego State University astronomy professor Allen Shafter.

		December 9th, 2010 Escondido 'Bomb House' Burning Details SDSU Chemistry Professor Andrew Cooksy is interviewed by KPBS about the dangers of burning-down a residence in Escondido that the San Diego County Sheriff's department and multiple fire agencies say is filled with explosive material that is too dangerous to remove.

		December 6th, 2010 Study: Sports Not Enough Daily Activity for Kids "Parents may think that because their child is engaged in organized sports they are getting the recommended amount of physical activity each day, but what we've found is they aren't," said Jim Sallis, director of SDSU's Active Living Research Program. "This study suggests that kids really need to be getting additional physical activity outside of organized sports practices in order to meet the national guidelines."

		December 5th, 2010 Mark Dunster Contributes to a Popular Mathematics Handbook The US Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics wrote that "The NIST Handbook is indeed a monumental achievement, and the many, many individuals who participated in its creation and dissemination are to be congratulated and thanked."

		November 18th, 2010 Capturing Sunlight, Storing Hydrogen Energy Professor Doug Grotjahn's research was one of three out of 13 topics receiving a $50,000 grant for development of catalysts for making hydrogen from water. The goal is a revolutionary technology which would capture sunlight and store the energy as hydrogen, without making or using electricity, carbon-containing fossil fuels or carbon dioxide.

		November 11th, 2010 Scholarship Students Thank Donors The feeling was expressed by scholarship recipients as they met donors, and it was also expressed by the donors themselves, who often pointed out that it was the students that led them to make a difference.

		November 9th, 2010 Retired Professor Donates Microscope to Alumni Center Library Leaders of the ARCS San Diego chapter group presented the check to SDSU President Stephen L. Weber. All 14 Ph.D. students were part of the presentation and enjoyed spending the afternoon with President Weber by sharing with him the latest in their teachings, research and presentations.

		November 9th, 2010 Female Philanthropists Fund Student Scholarships The feeling was expressed by scholarship recipients as they met donors, and it was also expressed by the donors themselves, who often pointed out that it was the students that led them to make a difference.

		November 8th, 2010 Undergraduate Students are Leading Beneficiaries of the Expanding Research Enterprise at SDSU "The best education we can give to all our students--including future scientists--is to have them actively participate in research," said SDSU President Stephen L. Weber. "Research keeps our faculty sharp and current in their field and provides excellent learning environments for our students."

		November 1st, 2010 Physics professor, Richard H. Morris, Ph.D. announced his retirement after 53 years of teaching at SDSU. "Doc" has supervised over thirty graduate theses in the above mentioned subjects. In celebration of his 50 years of teaching at SDSU, in 2007, the Department of Physics named the "Doc Morris Public Lecture Series" after Professor Morris. (Doc is the longest serving faculty member at SDSU)

		October 22nd, 2010 Building Molecules in Classrooms San Diego State chemistry professor Andrew Cooksy visited Castle Park Middle School last month, bringing a bit of university science into the classroom as part of a new outreach program to serve San Diego area schools.

		October 14th, 2010 Grant Funds BioScience Center's New Research Tool "This high-tech tool will enhance research being done at the BioScience Center, bringing us closer to identifying the connections between various infections and heart disease," said Roberta Gottlieb, director of the SDSU BioScience Center.

		October 13th, 2010 SDSU Research Foundation Adds Two New Board Members Elizabeth Klonoff, SDSU professor of psychology and co-director of the SDSU/UCSD joint doctoral program in clinical psychology, will help direct the activities of SDSU Research Foundation.

		October 8th, 2010 Eric Frost Receives Lifetime Achievement Award in Cybersecurity When it comes to cybersecurity, one San Diego State professor is at the forefront of the field. Eric Frost, SDSU geology professor and director of the Viz Lab, received a lifetime achievement award for his efforts and accomplishments in the field of cybersecurity at the first annual Cybersecurity Awards, hosted by Securing Our eCity.

		October 7th, 2010 Treating Anxiety with the Click of a Mouse Social anxiety disorder, the most common anxiety disorder in the U.S., is often treated with medication or cognitive behavior therapy. But if medication doesn't work, and therapy is too expensive, what other option is there?

		September 13th, 2010 Rich Levine Elected ASA Fellow "Levine was chosen for his "outstanding methodological contributions and groundbreaking applicates in the area of Monte Carlo statistical methods, for curricular developments and teaching innovations in computational statistics, and for exemplary service to the profession."

		September 9th, 2010 Determining 'Brain Age' With A Simple Scan A new type of brain scan could help doctors identify children whose brains are not developing on schedule, and may eventually explain what goes wrong in the brains of children with autism.

		August 19th, 2010 Why They Chose SDSU Over UCSD "I could do high-powered research at UCSD, but I really like that interaction with students, to help develop their love of science and their future careers," she said. "It's more work, but there's more of a reward."

		August 19th, 2010 Simulated Shake-Up Reveals Some Answers "The scientific results of this massive simulation are very interesting, and its level of detail has allowed us to observe things that we were not able to see in the past," said Kim Olsen, professor of geological sciences at SDSU, and lead seismologist of the study..."

		August 18th, 2010 Can College Students Learn as Well on iPads, e-books? Folu Ani, a graduate of San Diego State University and a member of the Class of 2014 at University of California-Irvine School of Medicine, holds an iPad. Given to each member of the class, the iPads came pre-loaded with all the textbooks and software required to complete their first year of medical school.

		August 16th, 2010 Disaster in the Making: Researcher Warns of Microbial Threat to Coral Reefs, Other Ocean Habitat Professor Forest Rowher San Diego-based researchers found corals were dead or diseased, sharks and other large predators were scarce and only small fish darted past slime-covered reefs.

		August 13th, 2010 New Collaborative Educational Opportunity Between San Diego and Brazil San Diego State University and Scripps Institution of Oceanography have received a new award from the US Department of Education's Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education (FIPSE) and their Brazilian counterpart, the Coordenacao de Aperfeicoamento de Pessoal de Nivel Superior...

		August 13th, 2010 SDSU Makes top-40 most Popular Colleges PayScale.com recently conducted a survey of the most popular colleges in the United States. 819,147 individuals responded to the survey, naming the college they attended or were attending.

		August 10th, 2010 Study Says More Firefighters Needed "Wildfires result in billions of dollars of lost and damaged property, open space and infrastructure," Rahn said. "Adding a single firefighter to an engine will save money by saving time, property and, most importantly, lives."

		August 2nd, 2010 In Memoriam: Donald Shiley "We are deeply saddened at the news of Donald Shiley's passing. Donald was a humanitarian in the truest sense. His contributions, both as an inventor and philanthropist, will leave a lasting legacy in our community and beyond..."

		July 30th, 2010 Make a Muscle, make a Difference! SDSU biology professor Sandy Bernstein and lab personnel appear in Muscular Dystrophy Association Public Service Announcement. Chi Lee (PhD student), Anju Melkani (research technician), and Meera Viswanathan (MS student).

		July 22nd, 2010 ARRA Helps Define Molecular Structure, Career Direction for New College Grad "Understanding how UNC-45 works may allow us to harness its function in protecting muscle from biological stress or ameliorating diseases caused by protein-folding defects," says Dr. Bernstein. "Clarke's contributions helped us to move our research forward dramatically."

		July 22nd, 2010 Trust Your Gut for Health Clues In a recent study published in Nature, SDSU biology professor Forest Rohwer and Dr. Jeffrey Gordon, director of Washington University's Center for Genome Sciences and Systems Biology, found that even identical twins, who have the same genetic makeup, each carry a unique collection of intestinal viruses.

		June 30th, 2010 SDSU Research No. 1 for Fourth Straight Year For the fourth consecutive year, San Diego State University is ranked the No. 1 most productive research university in the nation among schools with 14 or fewer Ph.D. programs, according to Academic Analytics.

		June 21st, 2010 Sciencequest: Exploring Regional Science and Tech SDSU Professor Rulon Clark is studying predator-prey interactions between rattlesnakes and small mammals, with a focus on how small mammals use antisnake displays to convince snakes to leave them alone.

		June 16th, 2010 SDSU and UC Offer New Joint Doctoral Programs San Diego State University and the University of California are joining forces to offer two new joint doctoral programs beginning in fall 2010. After extensive review, the new programs in evolutionary biology and geophysics were approved this spring, joining SDSU's 14 existing joint doctoral programs and two independent doctoral programs.

		June 4th, 2010 Astronomy Professor Paul Etzel Receives Standing Ovation On his 62nd birthday, SDSU Astronomy Professor/ Mt. Laguna Observatory Director, Paul Etzel receives a standing ovation as he gives his final lecture after 30 years of service, including 24 years on the faculty. Etzel will participate in FERP (Faculty Early Retirement Program), and will continue to teach and administer the observatory after retiring from the university.

		June 4th, 2010 SDSU Heads for the Skies with NASA-Funded Research Walt Oechel, SDSU biology professor specializing in global climate change, will work with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Jet Propulsion Lab to measure the greenhouse gas effect on the globe's most northern point.

		June 1st, 2010 The Lab Rats at the Bottom of Biotech's Food Chain In a fluorescent-lit room at San Diego State University, three of these soon-to-be college graduates crowded around a three-foot-wide white box that looked like a fancy printer. The students were part of a new course that taught them to extract, prepare and analyze DNA from a California sea lion.

		May 19th, 2010 San Diego State to Build 50-inch Research Telescope The $1.7 million Phillips Claud Telescope will replace SDSU's original 16-inch research telescope, and enable the school to analyze objects spotted during deep sky surveys conducted by other institutions.

		May 18th, 2010 Jean Twenge Awarded for Distinguished Achievement at Sigma Xi Annual Award Banquet Psychology professor Jean Twenge pioneered a new research method, cross-temporal meta-analysis, and used it to become the first psychologist to study birth cohort effects in a systematic way. She has also performed ground-breaking research on the effects of social rejection and exclusion on behavior.

		May 7th, 2010 Cellphones May Save the Coast From Oil "We're part of a whole group of hundreds to thousands of different people called Crisis Commons," said Eric Frost, co-director of the Immersive Visualization Center, also known as the Viz Lab."

		May 7th, 2010 Welcome to the Galaxy Bill Welsh is part of a team looking for Earth-like planets. The San Diego State astronomy professor bolted awake, suddenly plagued with doubts about the computations he'd done for NASA's Kepler space mission. The mission was to launch in less than a week and Welsh was part of its nationwide science team.

		May 7th, 2010 Class of 2010 Outstanding Graduates The College of Sciences congratulates: Fiyinfoluwa 'Folu' Ani (Biology pre-med), Jessica Compton (computer science), Marck Marounm (geology), Stephanie Renee Pena (psychology), and Kyla R. Power (psychology).

		May 7th, 2010 Liz Klonoff Receives Social Responsibility Award Dr. Liz Klonoff (SDSU co-PI) is the recipient of the Western Psychological Association's (WPA) 2010 Social Responsibility Award. This award is given to an individual in recognition of substantial and influential work that facilitates peace, freedom, social justice, and/or protection of this planet's natural environment.

		May 4th, 2010 Grads Poised to Make a Difference "In elementary, middle and high school, I was a victim of bullying and saw many of the disabled children that I worked with suffer from bullying," said Pena, who attended Bonita Vista High School. "Because of that, I always had the drive to bring awareness to this topic."

		May 3rd, 2010 New National Plan Encourages Physical Activity "We are excited to have contributed to the creation of the National Physical Activity Plan, look forward to its implementation and commend its creators for the contribution the plan will make to improving the health of all Americans," said James Sallis, program director of Active Living Research (ALR), a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

		May 3rd, 2010 SDSU: Tech's 29 Most Powerful Colleges The San Diego State University Research Foundation takes the school's creative intellectual property and makes it publicly available and commercially viable.

		April 28th, 2010 No State Microbe For Wisconsin Lactococcus lactis will not become that state's microbe, or at least not this year. The busy little bacterium is used to make cheese, and while the Wisconsin assembly felt worthy, the state Senate did not.

		April 24th, 2010 The Montys College of Sciences Winner: Christina A. Waters, Ph.D. Christina A. Waters ('89, biology), Ph.D., has a twenty-year history of research and management in drug discovery and development in the pharmaceutical industry. Serving currently as president of Cell Therapeutics Europe and Systems Medicine, a subsidiary of Cell Therapeutics, Inc., she has developed a unique and specialized background in fostering new approaches to treatments for disorders and diseases.

		April 21st, 2010 Catching More Than Fish The number of sea turtles inadvertently caught by commercial fishing gear during the past 20 years may reach into the millions, according to the first peer-reviewed study to compile sea turtle bycatch data from gillnet, trawl and longline fisheries worldwide.

		April 16th, 2010 Iceland Eruptions Wreak Havoc Thousands of people are stranded at airports around the world, thanks to volcanic eruptions this week in Iceland. But it's not just flights that are being affected, said SDSU geology professor Vic Camp.

		April 13th, 2010 President's Leadership Fund Honors Five Aztecs Five faculty and staff members were honored this year for the President's Leadership Fund, including: John Love, professor, SDSU Department of Chemistry. In addition to the recognition of their contributions to SDSU, each will receive a $5,000 award.

		March 23rd, 2010 Students Sequence California Sea Lion Genome SDSU biology professor Elizabeth Dinsdale teaches a class using a "next-generation" DNA sequencer in collaboration with Roche 454 Lifesciences. The class is investigating the health of California sea lions and their environment.

		March 23rd, 2010 Quest for the Best: Each year, Student Affairs honors outstanding students and the faculty and staff who support them. Sciences Awardees Include: Brianna Bennett, journalism, and Estralita Martin, College of Sciences; Daniel Brown, jazz studies and psychology, and Dan Cornthwaite, Associated Students; Karina Kangas, chemistry, and Janet Abbott, Division of Undergraduate Studies; Kyla Power, psychology, and Brendon Bray, Athletics; Tristany Wagner, geography, and Maureen Gibbins Paolini, Department of Biology.

		March 10th, 2010 Young Workers Value Jobs Less, Leisure More "Our results show that the desire for leisure and a better work-life balance starts long before young workers have families, so companies will have to consider new policies for younger people who want leisure time to travel or spend with friends," Twenge said. "Of course, the generation itself may have to adapt their expectations if they want both higher salaries and more time off."

		March 2nd, 2010 Sea Squirt Offers Hope for Alzheimer's Sufferers Alzheimer's disease affects an estimated 27 million people worldwide and is the most common form of age-related dementia. There is no cure, however, San Diego State researchers Mike Virata and Bob Zeller have found that the sea squirt may hold the key for developing more efficient drugs to target the disease.

		March 1st, 2010 In the Information Age: The Ethics Center Forum "Who owns the data?" "As part of our monthly series on ethics in science and technology, this morning we're discussing the issue of access to scientific research. I'd like to welcome my guests. Stanley Maloy is professor of biology and the dean of the College of Sciences at SDSU. Professor Maloy, welcome to These Days."

		February 19th, 2010 Research: From the Lab to Lands Afar: Student learning outside the classroom "Before I began working in Dr. Edwards' lab, I had only a vague notion of how I could use my computer programming knowledge in the real world," Cuevas said. "Working with him has really opened my eyes to the higher purpose of learning."

		February 16th, 2010 $4.95 M Grant Will Train Vets, Others for Biotech Careers: The stimulus grant will help bridge education to employment in San Diego's life sciences industry. The BRIDGE project is a partnership linking training and higher education with employment opportunities that address the regional and state-wide workforce needs of the life sciences industry. The project will focus on the critical need for clinical laboratory scientists, medical laboratory technicians, medical physicists and professional scientists.

		January 26th, 2010 Viz Lab Helping on the Ground in Haiti "From thousands of miles away, researchers in San Diego State University's Immersive Visualization Center, also known as the Viz Lab, are helping first-responders on the ground in Haiti. Because of SDSU's long-standing partnership with the U.S. Navy, SDSU has been the primary resource for processing imaging data.

		January 14th, 2010 SDSU Program Works To Predict Floods "There's so much development in the upper portion that the land base is no longer there to absorb that water, and so it just sort of runs off of our rooftops and our asphalt and our concrete," said Dr. Matt Rahn, the program's director.

		January 11th, 2010 High-Strung and Stressed Students More Common A new study by San Diego State University finds that today's high school and college students are more high-strung and stressed out than ever before. The research, published in Clinical Psychology Review, finds that young people today report more anxiety and mental health problems than generations past.

		December 20th, 2009 Institutions Join Forces for S.D. Bay Research The Center for Bay and Coastal Dynamics unites efforts at San Diego State University, the University of California San Diego, Hubbs-SeaWorld Research Institute and the Unified Port District of San Diego to better understand the region's most heavily used body of water.

		December 9th, 2009 Fred Hornbeck Retires After Four Decades on the Mesa Frederick W. Hornbeck will retire after more than 41 years of outstanding service to the Department of Psychology, San Diego State University, the California State University System and thousands of students.

		December 8th, 2009 The Domino Effect: Surprising Links Between Infection and Heart Disease Roberta Gottlieb, M.D., has a compelling way to demonstrate the pervasiveness of heart disease. "Look to your right," she says. "Now look to your left. One of the three of you is going to die of heart disease."

		November 20th, 2009 Small Things Considered Wins Big at PRNews' 2009 Nonprofit Awards "I feel honored and pleased that a specialized subject area that's dear to my heart can garner such national recognition," said Moselio Schaechter, blog author and past president of the ASM. Schaechter, adjunct professor at San Diego State University and the University of California, San Diego, created the blog when he entered into "active retirement" to share his fascination with the breadth and depth of microbial activities on our planet.

		November 4th, 2009 Researchers Receive Competitive Grants, Top Rankings San Diego State University researchers have received four highly competitive Challenge Grants from the National Institutes of Health, it was announced today. Additionally, psychology professor Linda Gallo received a $2.4 million ARRA "Grand Opportunity" award from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI).

		October 30th, 2009 Vaccination Fascination: SDSU research professor Ed Morgan discusses vaccinations, their scarcity and why they are important. "The classical approach for making influenza vaccines is you have to grow the virus," said Edward Morgan, San Diego State University research professor, about the vaccine shortage."

		October 22nd, 2009 SDSU Launches Biotech Certificate: The new certificate for biotechnology project management in quality assurance will be available online. "The biotechnology and other life science industries are among the nation's most promising job creators. These are high-paying, high-demand jobs that will fuel the 21st century California economy," said Susan Baxter, CSUPERB executive director.

		October 21st, 2009 Women's Group Funds Grad Student Scholarships: Twelve graduate students in the College of Sciences will be supported by the $97,500 gift. This year's scholarship recipients included: Peter Belmont, biology; Karen Campbell, computational science; Shirin Doroudgar, cell/molecular biology; Kimberlee Fischer, cell/molecular biology; Marc Gregerson, chemistry; Martin Kandes, computational science; Marc Rideout, biology/biochemistry; John Ruedas, cell/molecular biology; Aleksandr Stotland, cell/molecular biology; Jenna Tabor-Godwin, cell/molecular biology; Dana Willner-Hall, cell/molecular biology; and Robert Wilson, Jr., chemistry.

		October 21st, 2009 Research Uncovers Possible Cause of Red Tides "It has long been known that bloom-forming microalgae that influence climate and harm ecosystems and man are closely associated with certain bacterial species, but the reasons why were unknown," said Carl Carrano, chair of SDSU's chemistry and biochemistry department and co-publisher of the study."

		October 15th, 2009 Computer Science Assistant Professor, Tao Xie is Awarded the Prestigious NSF Career Award of $436,000 The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation's most prestigious awards in support of the early career-development activities of those teacher-scholars...

		October 14th, 2009 SDSU Awarded Three Year Training Grant to Encourage Students Participation in Stem Cell Research The SDSU College of Science has received a three-year grant from the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) to assist students pursuing careers in the growing scientific field of stem cell research.

		October 13th, 2009 National Science Foundation to Fund High-Speed Network The $256,000 research grant will fund the infrastructure needed to build a high-speed computer connection between SDSU and UCSD.

		October 12th, 2009 Staff Awards Hits it Out of the Park "Today, we are honoring colleagues who are living proof of SDSU's resilience and capacity to overcome these setbacks," said President Weber during his remarks. "It is difficult now, but it has been difficult before. And each of the people we honor today can tell you that."

		September 1st, 2009 Computer Science Master's Student Takes 2nd at IEEE Oceans 2009 Shyam Kumar Madhusudhana, a master's student in the Department of Computer Science, was recently featured in the summer IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society Newsletter for winning second place in the IEEE Oceans 2009 graduate student poster contest. He has worked with Dr. Marie Roch (Associate Prof., SDSU) and researchers from Dr. John Hildebrand's whale acoustics group...

		August 20th, 2009 National Poll: Young People See Social Networking as Attention Seeking "College students have clearly noticed the more self-centered traits of their peers - it's fascinating how honest they are about diagnosing their generation's downsides," said Twenge, co-author of The Narcissism Epidemic: Living in the Age of Entitlement."

		August 20th, 2009 SDSU Receives Nearly $134 Million in Research Grants and Contracts ARRA funding has helped provide additional support for researchers like Dr. Shelli McAlpine, SDSU associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry. McAlpine's work focuses on developing potent new anticancer agents. Her research, funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), addresses an urgent need to create an antitumor agent that can target drug-resistant cancers.

		August 20th, 2009 SDSU Science and Engineering Receive $450,000 Educational Contribution from Qualcomm San Diego State University today announced that Qualcomm, a long-time supporter of SDSU, has granted the university $450,000 to support its science and engineering programs. Qualcomm's donation will be distributed among the Improving Student Achievement in Mathematics (ISAM) program ($100,000), Project Lead the Way ($100,000), the College of Engineering ($100,000) and the President's Leadership Fund ($150,000)

		August 18th, 2009 Healing Hearts and Mentoring Students Christopher Glembotski is one of five recipients of The President's Leadership Fund Awards for Faculty and Staff Excellence. The award recognizes his innovations in both science and administration. As a result of research in his lab, he and his colleagues have discovered several new genes that play important roles in the heart's capacity to recover from the stress of decreased oxygen during a heart attack.

		August 10th, 2009 Rebecca Vega Thurber: The Coral Doctor It's not every day that a biologist's work makes it on to Comedy Central. But after giving a talk at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City about herpes-like viruses in corals...

		July 27th, 2009 Kelly Doran's Research Featured on Cover of The Journal of Infectious Diseases Professor Doran's research investigates how bacterial pathogens breach the blood-brain barrier (BBB) to cause meningitis. Her data suggest that GBS Srr glycoproteins play an important role in crossing the BBB and in the development of streptococcal meningitis, the leading cause of meningitis in newborns.

		July 27th, 2009 Innovating Excellence One Discovery at a Time "The exciting thing about what we do in synthesis is that it's partly science and partly art," Grotjahn said. "We're only limited by our imagination, because we can make new molecules and materials, with properties to be explored."

		July 21st, 2009 New Study Shows Real Economic Impact of Wildfires "You think about what happens when you shut down the city of San Diego for a couple of days, which in essence is what happened," said Matt Rahn, director of research and education at SDSU's College of Sciences' Field Stations Programs, who led the study. "You close down our city, you close down our airport, you close down our ports and you realize how many delayed or cancelled flights there were, what the tourism impact was, what the impact to business lost was."

		July 20th, 2009 Immunologists Join SDSU BioScience Center Five internationally known immunologists have joined the research faculty of San Diego State University's BioScience Center, bringing with them several active grants from the National Institutes of Health, the university announced today. The researchers, formerly of the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center, started at SDSU on June 30.

		July 17th, 2009 SDSU Receives Another $1.5 Million in Stimulus Research Funding San Diego State University researchers, and in turn the San Diego region, continue to benefit from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, with the announcement of an additional $1.5 million in funding this week. To date, SDSU has received 21 grants, totaling more than $4 million.

		July 13th, 2009 Turning Off the Tap "Changing human behavior is one of the biggest challenges there is," said Jim Sallis, SDSU psychology professor. "Part of the difficulty is that behavior is influenced by so many factors - psychological, biological, social and cultural factors, as well as by policies, the environment and access to resources."

		July 9th, 2009 SDSU Receives Another $1.2 Million in Stimulus Research Funding San Diego State University has received ten new research grants or supplemental grants as a result of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act totaling nearly $1.2 million.

		June 25th, 2009 Pooling Human Resources The SDSU Center for Regional Sustainability will drive green initiatives for the region. The center will coordinate regional efforts in water conservation and alternative energy creation, among other issues.

		June 22nd, 2009 U.S. Navy and SDSU Demo First-Responder Technology "San Diego State is helping to bridge the gap between military acquisition and academia," said Jay Iannacito, scenario lead for CWID San Diego. "They are also providing the center, which will allow for the great number of visitors we will be receiving to watch these technology trials and evaluations."

		June 18th, 2009 Disaster Response in the Age of Twitter "It's about using cloud computing and things that are out there that don't have to be built from scratch -- leveraging other people's resources," said Eric Frost, the SDSU geologist who runs the center, which is known as Viz Lab, a room with a lot of computing power and large-screen GIS displays that has helped with disaster response efforts worldwide.

		May 29th, 2009 Richard Levine Named Editor of Top Computational Statistics Journal Richard Levine, associate professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, has been appointed editor of the Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics (JCGS).

		May 25th, 2009 Diana Osborn Masters Educational Technology Osborn, who works in the College of Sciences, received her master's degree in educational technology this weekend. The program applies research, learning theory and emergent technologies in order to lead students in the revolution of new technologies, on-demand information and learning problem-based strategies.

		May 18th, 2009 And the Faculty Monty Goes to... James Sallis Psychology professor, Dr. Jim Sallis, is an international authority whose research applies behavioral science to physical activity promotion, healthy eating and smoking prevention. Author of more than 375 peer-reviewed publications, he developed the SPARK physical education program, now used in more than 2000 schools. He directs the Active Living Research Program and is initiating an ecological analysis of activity, eating and weight in adolescents with $2.8 million in external funding. In 2007, the Society of Behavioral Medicine named him Distinguished Scientist, its highest honor.

		May 11th, 2009 Emilio Ulloa Recognized for Student Advising Ulloa is being recognized by the National Academic Advising Association (NACADA). The professional association recently announced that Ulloa will receive the Outstanding Advising Certificate of Merit as part of its 2009 National Awards Program for Academic Advising. Ulloa will be honored and presented with the award in San Antonio, Texas during the annual NACADA National Conference this fall.

		May 8th, 2009 Bruce Alberts Visits CRMSE On May 8th, Dr. Bruce Alberts, former president of the National Academy of Sciences and current editor in Chief of Science, visited the SDSU Center for Research in Mathematics and Science Education (CRMSE). Dr. Alberts has a strong commitment to science and mathematics education. He spoke with graduate students and faculty at the center to learn about the innovative research contributions of CRMSE to improving student learning and how these insights are being implemented in the K-12 education community.

		May 7th, 2009 SDSU faculty experts discussion of the H1N1 (Swine) flu Stanley Maloy, dean of the College of Sciences - Maloy, a microbial sciences expert, discusses how and why this new flu virus evolved. He also addresses why some flu strains are deadly, while others are relatively mild.

		May 6th, 2009 Flu Fighting in the Age of Wikipedia "The debate over Valafar's system highlights the convergence of the pillars of internet 2.0, such as social networking and community intelligence, with the centuries-old fight to contain infectious diseases."

		April 27th, 2009 SDSU Grad Programs Rank Among Nation's Best Four of San Diego State's graduate programs have been ranked in U.S. News Media Group's 2010 edition of America's Best Graduate Schools. Ranked programs include: Secondary Teacher Education, International Business, Psychology, and Education.

		April 24th, 2009 Roberta Gottlieb Gives Grant Advice at Workshop Dr. Gottlieb is a professor of biology, director of SDSU's BioScience Center and the first Frederick G. Henry Chair in Life Sciences. The workshop, hosted by the SDSU Research Foundation, focused on best practices for obtaining external funding and included tips on how to market and establish oneself as a reputable scientist and collaborator.

		April 22nd, 2009 When Stars Explode: Watch the SDSU Live Interview with Astronomer Doug Leonard In a recently published article in Nature, SDSU astronomer Doug Leonard and a co-researcher from Israel's Weizmann Institute of Science reported their surprising discovery of the most massive star ever confirmed to have ended its life as a supernova. According to conventional theory, the star -- more than a million times brighter than the sun -- should not have exploded, but it did, probably leaving behind a massive black hole.

		April 21st, 2009 'Narcissism Epidemic' Spreading Among College Students Jean Twenge, SDSU psychology professor, and her co-author, Jason D. Foster, found that when increases were similar among ethnic and racial groups, narcissism in young women increased more than in young men, suggesting that recent cultural changes have affected girls and women more.

		April 15th, 2009 College of Sciences Represents at SD Science Festival Biology professors Steve Barlow, Terry Frey and Mariam Ghochani, along with Pamela Moses of the Department of Psychology represented the College of Sciences at San Diego Science Festival in Balboa Park on April 4. Organizers reported 100,000 attendees at this first-time community science fair and exposition.

		April 15th, 2009 Searching for Other Earths: The SDSU-NASA connection "This is an important project in NASA's astrobiology path," said San Diego State astronomy professor Bill Welsh, the only Kepler Participating Scientist from Southern California. "It's asking, are there other planets like ours out there? That's the first question we need to answer."

		April 10th, 2009 Regional Event Highlights Cyber Security: "Securing the Perimeter" was jointly hosted by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce. There are currently more than a billion personal computers and more than four billion mobile phones in the world. Some experts believe that most mobile phones will soon be as powerful as mini computers and, along with the efficiencies they bring to the workforce and our daily lives, so too do they bring safety and security issues unlike anything experts have seen before.

		April 6th, 2009 Provost Nancy Marlin recognizes the Work of Sarah Mattson, Professor of Psychology Sarah Mattson, professor of psychology and associate director of San Diego State's Center for Behavioral Teratology, looks at children through a different lens. Instantly, she recognizes the telltale signs -- small eyes, thin upper lip and lack of ridges between the nose and upper lip -- that signal Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS).

		April 6th, 2009 SMER Open House Attracts Hundreds of Visitors: The Santa Margarita Ecological Reserve hosted an open house on March 28 as part of SDSU Month. More than 500 people from around the region attended the event. Visitors arrived at the Temecula City Hall, and were shuttled to the reserve. SDSU Professor Matt Rahn, director of research and education, gave lectures throughout the day, educating people about the reserve and its unique value as an outdoor laboratory and classroom. Visitors were also invited to take a docent-guided tour down to the gorge and the Santa Margarita River.

		April 6th, 2009 Dean Maloy Talks Science with Kids, Honored as one of the "Nifty Fifty" "I strongly believe that the future of our community and our country depends on continuing developments in science, which will require a robust influx of young scientsts," Maloy said. "Even nonscientists need a solid foundation of science to make informed decisions in today's world. We need to help get young students interested and excited about science to achieve these goals."

		March 25th, 2009 Super-sized Supernova: Scientists Observe Largest Exploding Star Yet Seen In the first observation if its kind, scientists at the Weizmann Institute of Science and Professor Douglas Leonard of San Diego State University were able to watch what happens when a star the size of 50 suns explodes. As they continued to track the spectacular event, they found that most of the star's mass collapsed in on itself, resulting in a large black hole."

		March 16th, 2009 SDSU Works to Restore Shoreline The Coastal and Marine Institute Laboratory offers bayside research opportunities to faculty members and students. "It's one of the few laboratories ever built in an existing urban environment," said Todd Anderson, director of the lab. "It actually opens up avenues of research in the proximity to San Diego city that give us a real heads up and leg up on doing the kind of applied research that's of interest today."

		March 16th, 2009 When a Walk a Day Keeps the Doctor Away Over the past eight years, SDSU researcher Jim Sallis has been examining the physical attributes of communities to determine whether walkability of a neighborhood contributes to a healthier community.

		March 9th, 2009 Sam Shen Fights Fire with Math When thinking of the common tools used to fight a fire, mathematics does not make it on most people's lists. But a recent paper published in Nature Geoscience has proven that thinking wrong. Co-authored by SDSU mathematics chair Sam Shen, the paper states that severe fires in Indonesia responsible for some of the worst air quality conditions worldwide are linked not only to drought, but also to changes in land use and population density.

		February 26th, 2009 Douglas Grotjahn's Research Published in International Journal Catalyst research by chemistry and biochemistry professor Douglas Grotjahn and his group was recently featured on the front cover of Dalton Transactions, an international chemistry journal published in the United Kingdom. The cover of the journal shows a picture of how one of Grotjahn's new catalysts works, based on data collected by his research team, which includes professor Andy Cooksy, and for one year, Fulbright Scholar professor Sara Cortes-Llamas from Mexico.

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