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The National Institute of Health has awarded a grant in the amount of $114,923 to CSUF in support of the project Diet, DNA Repair Genes and Breast Cancer Risk under the direction of Dr. Archana McEligot. This is the second year of a four-year, $459,696 project.

Incidence of breast cancer rises dramatically after age 50, and therefore conducting research that examines epigenetic factors, such as nutritional status and polymorphisms in DNA repairs genes associated with breast cancer risk may reduce morbidity and mortality in this population.

For more information contact Dr. McEligot at amceligot@fullerton.edu.

College Of HDD

Predicting Tobacco and Alcohol Initiation

A second year of Dr. Weiss's investigation has been funded by NIH (National Institute of Health). The program's goal is to predict which individual within a cohort of young non users will eventually take up tobacco or alcohol use.

Dr. Weiss received intensive research training as an NIH post-doctoral fellow at the institute for Prevention Research, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine. She has conducted extensive cross-cultural and within-culture studies of psychosocial, cultural factors, environmental factor, attitudes and expectancies about smoking among adolescents in the U.S. and in China.

College of Engineering and Computer Science

MESA Program Center

The University of Califronia, Office of the President has provided funds for the current fiscal year of the MESA Program

This has been an ongoing project for the last 20 years and despite limited resources it has grown from mentoring 275 students five years ago to about 1200 nowadays. Mathematics, Engineering, Science Achievement (MESA) is an academic enrichment program that serves educationally disadvantage students. For more information contact Project Director Dr. Vonna Hammerschmitt or go to mesa.ecs.fullerton.edu

College of Natural Science and Mathematics

Impact

The Improving Mathematics, Physics, and Chemistry Teaching (IMPaCT) project was funded by the National Science Foundation under the Robert Noyce Scholarship program. IMPaCT is designed to support talented, low-income, prospective secondary school mathematics, physics, and chemistry teachers during the year they work towards their teaching credential.

Dr. Margaret Kidd is PI for the program and directs the program along with co-PI’s Dr. David Pagni (in the picture) and Mr. Richard Lodyga. Applications will be ready by November 2006 for students beginning their credential year in spring 2007.

College of HSS

South Central Coastal Information Center

The South Central Coastal Information Center, located at the Cal State University, Fullerton Department of Anthropology, is the regional repository for the California State Office of Historic Preservation.

The Information Center is responsible for maintaining prehistoric and historic information for Los Angeles, Orange and Ventura counties. The center's biggest accomplishment is the digitization of their archives which are available to clients in this form. Project Director Stacy St. James and Lead Reseracher Thomas Shackford in the picture. For More information visit their website anthro.fullerton.edu/sccic/

Health Center

Campus Suicide Prevention Program

The Department of Health and Human Services - SAMHSA has awarded $75,000 to CSUF in support of the Campus Suicide Prevention Program under the direction of Mary Hermann.

The project will focus on establishing a Crisis Response Team and protocol to better assist the campus community to respond to a suicide or suicide attempt. The project will focus on reducing the stigma to receiving treatment for mental health conditions. This will be accomplished by conducting a social marketing campaign, targeting multicultural and ethnic populations, as these student groups are less likely to seek treatment for mental health conditions

College of Education

On Track Transition To Teaching Program

On-Track is a program offered by CSU Fullerton and Santa Ana Unified School District funded by the U.S. Department of Education to support three categories of people in becoming credentialed as teachers in Special Education, Mathematics and/or Science:

(1) Paraprofessionals in SAUSD (2)Mid-career changers transitioning to teaching and (3) Recent college graduates. Applicants will receive up to $5,000 per year to cover expenses such as tuition, books, child-care and travel to and from clases. For more information contact Dr. Barbara Glaeser at bglaeser@fullerton.edu.