Long Beach

Arts
Film and Television Creative Illustrates the Art of Storyboarding and Costumes
Cal State Long Beach professor Robin Richesson, a professor of illustration and animation in the School of Art, collaborates with costume designers to help visualize their designs on films through extensive research of time periods and styles.
Biotechnology
Heart Stents and Landfill Gases Research Improve Lives One Molecule at a Time
The work of Dr. Fangyuan Tian, an assistant professor of chemistry in Cal State Long Beach’s chemistry and biochemistry department, aims to create a biodegradable coating that prevents cholesterol buildup for people battling heart disease.
Aerospace
Fuel Rewards: Exploring Properties of Solid Rocket Propellants
For Dr. Joseph Kalman and his students, the pursuit of knowledge is a mission to better understand energetic materials—the hot-burning stuff of solid rocket propellants, explosives and pyrotechnics.

Film and Television Creative Illustrates the Art of Storyboarding and Costumes