“Don't ever underestimate confidence. Even if you don't know what you're doing at the moment, act like you do. Fake it until you can make it.” “Never let them see you sweat.” These are just some of the words of wisdom imparted to about 175 students, mostly women along with several men, from business classes, faculty, staff, and guests by a panel of prominent women business and community leaders at the Successful Women Leaders Symposium hosted by the College of Business and Public Policy at California State University, Dominguez Hills on Feb. 25 in the Loker Student Union. The diverse group of women, director of recruitment at Northwestern Mutual Kristin Burke, attorney at law ... Read More
Archives for February 2014
Ninth Annual Student Research Day: A Rewarding Experience in Record Numbers
Record numbers marked the ninth annual California State University, Dominguez Hills Student Research Day (SRD) on Feb. 13. This year SRD featured the work of 316 students and 63 faculty mentors–a 70 percent increase in participation within the last three years alone. In its first year, in 2005, with 63 oral presentations and 11 posters, the on-campus conference, has nearly tripled in size with 180 total presentations this year, according to Laura Robles, emeritus professor of biology and acting associate vice president of Research and Funded Projects, who has been on every SRD planning committee since it was established. “It's really become something that is taking on a life of its ... Read More
Author of “The Butler” Wil Haygood Visits Campus
“We gingerly walked down and when we got to the center of the basement, Mr. Allen clicked on the light switch and it literally changed my life. On every wall, there were framed photographs of Mr. Allen and all the presidents that he had worked for; Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, [Richard M. Nixon], Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan. It was amazing.” That was the moment that exceeded Wil Haygood's wildest dreams. It was the moment he discovered that Allen had witnessed history while working for decades as a butler in the White House. It laid the foundation for Haygood's book, the story of Eugene Allen's life, “The Butler: A Witness to History” ... Read More
Students Learn Steps to Become Doctors at Tour for Diversity in Medicine Stop on Campus
Approximately 140 students from universities throughout the Southern California region, as well as local high school students– mostly from ethnic and racial minorities that tend to be underrepresented in the medical profession–came to California State University, Dominguez Hills earlier this month to learn about what they need to do to become doctors. From CSU Dominguez Hills, Charles Drew University, University of California, Los Angeles, CSU Fullerton, Mt. San Antonio College, Los Angeles City College, Pitzer College, Argosy University, and high school students from the on-campus California Academy of Math and Science, as well as John Glenn, South Gate and Madonna high schools, the ... Read More
STEM Education Students Teach Science of Golf
Part of the struggle to interest more young people in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM)–and equally a challenge for their K-12 teachers–is how to make these subjects more engaging. From Feb. 13 to 16, 23 California State University, Dominguez Hills students with aspirations of becoming math and science educators were given the chance to see one way to do that–through the game of golf. Students in the university's STEM educator scholarship programs–Math and Science Teacher Initiative, Noyce Scholars, Transition to Teaching (TTT)– spent their weekend at the Northern Trust Pro-Am Golf Tournament at the Riviera Country Club in Pacific Palisades, where they taught the science ... Read More
