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Archives for September 2010

Jung Sun Park: Professor of Asian Pacific Studies Serving Fellowship in Korea

September 30, 2010

Jung Sun Park is serving a fellowship at the Academy of Korean Studies in South Korea, conducting research on issues of South Korean social and cultural citizenship. As a complement to her previous research on legal citizenship in Korea, the professor of Asian Pacific studies, is currently working on the social and cultural dimensions of citizenship, which complements her previous research on the legal citizenship of foreign-born Koreans in Korea. Park gave a lecture on her experiences on a Navajo reservation in Shiprock, N.M. at Yonsei University last June. She also delivered lectures in July at the Academy of Korean Studies on the Korean “wave” in pop culture throughout East Asia, and a ... Read More

Salim Faraji: Professor of Africana Studies Attends Gathering of Scholars of Nubian Studies at British Museum

September 30, 2010

Salim Faraji (at far left) met a cadre of world-renowned - and few and far between - scholars of Nubiology at the 12th Annual International Conference for Nubian Studies at the British Museum last summer. L-R, in foreground: Faraji, David N. Edwards, professor of Nubian archaeology, University of Leceister; Derek A. Welsby, curator of Egyptian & Nubian Antiquities, British Museum; Necia D. Harkless

Salim Faraji, assistant professor of Africana studies at California State University, Dominguez Hills, attended the 12th Annual International Conference for Nubian Studies in August at the British Museum and presented his findings on “Africana Nubiology: Examining Classical Sudanese Traditions in West Africa.” “Ancient Sudanic civilization extended as far as West Africa,” says Faraji. “You can still see some of these cultural traditions in West Africa today. One is the building of sacred mounds on the palaces of royalty. I’ve seen these mounds in northern Ghana and other traditions that I can pinpoint as emerging in both ancient Nubia and West Africa.” As one of only two ... Read More

Jennifer Bleidistel: Easter Seals Ambassador Teaches Children in Infant Toddler Center

September 30, 2010

Jennifer Bleidistel

Jennifer Bleidistel works at the Infant Toddler Center at California State University, Dominguez Hills as a teacher assistant. Like the other staff members, she takes care of the children there, many of whom have disabilities like autism or Down syndrome. For the last ten years, she has read to them, fed them breakfast and lunch, and tended to their basic needs during the day. But unlike most the other teachers and assistants, she shares something in common with many of her young charges - she too has a disability. Bleidistel, who was born with Down syndrome, found the job at the Infant Toddler Center through Easter Seals Southern California’s Supported Employment Program. On Oct. 9, ... Read More

CSU Dominguez Hills Student Featured in U.S. Department of Education Video

September 30, 2010

California State University, Dominguez Hills sophomore Samantha Hernandez is featured in a United States Department of Education video intended to promote college attendance among children of Latino families. The video, “La universidad: un sueño alcanzable (College: An Attainable Dream),” is part of the Department of Education’s effort to achieve President Barack Obama’s goal of increasing college graduation rates in the United States by 20 percent by 2020. Statistics show that currently less than 40 percent of adult Americans have a two- or four-year degree, a percentage that lags behind other nations. Toward that end, the Department of Education video targets a segment of the country’s ... Read More

CSU Dominguez Hills Hearst Scholar Overcomes Adversity

September 30, 2010

Phuong Nguyen and CSUDH President Mildred Garcia

Despite much adversity in her life, a South Vietnamese immigrant has been undaunted in the pursuit of her academic dreams and is now one of the California State University system’s inspiring students. At its September board meeting, the CSU Board of Trustees honored Wilmington resident Phoung Nguyen, a California State University, Dominguez Hills alumnae and current graduate student, as the university’s recipient of the William Randolph Heart/CSU Trustee Award for Outstanding Achievement for 2010. The award is given each year to one student from each of the 23 CSU campuses in recognition of their academic success in the face of hardships. Nguyen’s story is marked by near death as an ... Read More

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