California State University, Dominguez Hills announces the appointment of Dr. Rodrick Hay as dean of the College of Natural and Behavioral Sciences (CNBS), effective July 1. Hay came to CSU Dominguez Hills in 1996 as a member of CNBS's Department of Earth Science faculty, first as an assistant professor and now as a full professor. He chaired that department from 1999 to 2002 and again in 2004, the same year he received the university's Presidential Outstanding Professor Award. In 2005 he was named associate dean of CNBS, his current position. Hay has his doctorate and master's in geography from the University of Arizona, an MBA from the University of Santa Clara, and a bachelor of ... Read More
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CSU Dominguez Hills Welcomes CSU Chancellor Timothy White
The California State University's new chancellor, Timothy P. White, won't be in disguise like he was on “Undercover Boss” when he visits CSU Dominguez Hills on Tuesday, April 23 as part of a CSU campus tour. White became the seventh chancellor of the largest four-year public university system in the country in December 2012 and soon announced his intention to tour all 23 of CSU's campuses to familiarize himself with the uniqueness of each campus and gain a deeper sense of the entire system, its strengths and its needs. So far he has visited campuses in the Bay area and central California. Tuesday will be his first tour of a campus in the Los Angeles-Orange County region. During his ... Read More
Loker Student Union’s Carole Desgroppes Honored by International Association
For contributions made to promote diversity among professionals in the field of student union management, the Association of College Unions International (ACUI) has honored Carole Desgroppes, manager of programs, marketing and assessments for the Loker Student Union (LSU) at California State University, Dominguez Hills, with the Revis A. Cox Memorial Scholarship Award. The award was presented during the ACUI annual conference held in St. Louis in March. Desgroppes, a native of France, has revised the ACUI's Community of Practice (COMP) website with pertinent information related to multiculturalism to help students and professionals in the field, facilitated a webinar on issues of ... Read More
Janet Andrade: Leading the Way Toward Science Education Earns Alumna Accolades
On the heels of receiving four pink slips in as many years, California State University, Dominguez Hills alumna Janet Andrade was recently named the 2012-2013 Project Lead The Way (PLTW) California Teacher of the Year for her ability to engage students at Bud Carson Middle School in Hawthorne in progressively advanced hands-on engineering activities. The award was presented during the 2nd Annual Statewide PLTW Conference held in Sacramento in February. “I was shocked when they announced my name. It was very unexpected,” recalled Andrade (Class of '03, B.A. public administration; '07, teaching credential, multiple subject; '11, M.A., education curriculum and instruction), who is only ... Read More
Nop Ratanasiripong: A Career Dedicated to Research, Teaching, and Caring
“One day I walked into the gynecology ward. There was a row of patients with cancer. I approached a lady, she was about to die. I helped her turn from one side to the other side. She looked at me and said, 'Thank you.' She was crying. Just turning a patient, it makes a difference. That moment I realized, I need to be a nurse.” That was the life-changing moment for Nop Ratanasiripong, a registered nurse and assistant professor for the School of Nursing at California State University, Dominguez Hills. On a full four-year scholarship and graduating with honors–in fact, ranking the highest among her peers within the major–Ratanasiripong earned a bachelor's in nursing from Boromarajonani ... Read More