Jose Padilla, California Rural Legal Assistance Director, will be the featured speaker at the 13th Annual California State University, Stanislaus Cesar Chavez Celebration on Thursday, April 3.

Dr. Miguel Altieri, an agroecology expert from UC Berkeley, will speak about sustainable agriculture as a productive and natural resource preserving process at California State University, Stanislaus on Wednesday, April 2. Part of the CSU Stanislaus Agricultural Studies speaker series sponsored by Yosemite Farm Credit, the program is scheduled for 6 p.m. in the Faculty Development Center.

"Challenges and Opportunities for a Sustainable Agriculture in the 21st Century" is the title of Altier's talk. The program is free and open to the public.

University Extended Education at California State University, Stanislaus will hold an information session in Modesto on Friday, April 4 for its upcoming new class titled "Spanish for Health Care Workers."

The free program is scheduled for 1 to 2 p.m. at the Sutter Gould Medical Foundation Education and Conference Center, 100 McHenry Ave, Suite 60B, in Modesto. Registration information is available at www.ExtendedEd.com/rsvp or by calling (209) 667-3111.

An information session on the inaugural California State University, Stanislaus Doctor of Education in Educational Leadership degree program will be held on Thursday, April 3 at Columbia College.

Students, staff, professors, administrators, and alumni will gather at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, March 19 at California State University, Stanislaus for a Budget Advocacy Summit. Members of the media are welcome to attend the Summit, which will be held in Room 130 of the Mary Stuart Rogers Educational Services Building at CSU Stanislaus, One University Circle, Turlock.

The California State University, Stanislaus College of Natural Sciences has awarded 13 members of its faculty with the first Naraghi Faculty Research Grant Awards aimed at enhancing their work on topics ranging from computer technology development and outer space to DNA analysis and food safety.

Roger McNeil, Dean of the College of Natural Sciences, announced the names of the research grant recipients as well as two additional Naraghi Faculty Travel Awards that went to Mathematics faculty members Kenneth Howard and Jung-Ha An, who also received a research grant.

Serving notice that their national championship claim is no fluke, Ca

A groundbreaking first-ever doctorate program and newly developed master's degree majors are raising and expanding the academic program at California State University, Stanislaus.

California State University, Stanislaus Teacher Education Professors Dr. Brenda Betts and Dr.

Multicultural women's history pioneer and author Vicki Ruiz, Dean of Humanities at UC Irvine, will speak about famed labor leader and civil rights activist Luisa Moreno at California State University, Stanislaus on Tuesday, March 4 as the College of Humanities & Social Sciences celebrates Women's History Month.