Scared, alone and with no real place to go, several children stand with full plastic grocery bags on the United States side of the U.S.-Mexico border while being detained by border patrol officers. After they're taken to a shelter, a few are handed empty brand new backpacks. They dump their grocery bags into the packs and fill them with what is likely everything they have in the world. For California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) art design students Deborah Paramo and Maria Vargas, who designed the student-learning project “Surviving by the Hour: The Migration of Unaccompanied Minors” to raise funds to purchase and donate the backpacks, “everything they have in the world” ... Read More
Archives for April 2015
Faculty Highlights: April 2015
Our faculty members participate in conferences around the world, conduct groundbreaking research, and publish books and journal papers that contribute to their field and highlight their expertise. We feature those accomplishments and more in this section. College of Arts and Humanities Ryan Bowles Eagle, assistant professor of communications, had her article, “Loitering, Lingering, Hashtagging: Women Reclaiming Public Space Via #BoardtheBus, #StuopStreetHarassment, and the #EverydaySexism Project” published in Feminist Media Studies, 15, 350-353. Bowles Eagle also contributed a chapter, “Ambient XXX: Pornography in Public Spaces,” to the recently published “New Views on Pornography: ... Read More
2015 Faculty Awards honor excellence in teaching, research, and service
Three California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) faculty members were honored for their excellence in teaching, outstanding achievement and the creative ways they engage students during the 2015 Annual Faculty Awards Reception on March 26. All three faculty and 40 of their colleagues were also recognized for a combined total of 500 years of service to the university. The recipients and their years of service are listed below. The reception was emceed by Ellen Junn, CSUDH provost and vice president for Academic Affairs, who began the evening by calling the award recipients “the soul of our university.” “Every accomplishment we enjoy would not take place were if not for ... Read More
O&P Program assists in project to give 3-D printed hand to young girl
The Orthothics and Prosthetics program at CSUDH received local and national attention recently for the role it played in giving a local 7-year-old girl a prosthetic hand through 3D print technology. The project was led by the nonprofit e-NABLE in partnership with Built-It, a do-it-yourself 3-D printing workspace. O&P instructor Mark Muller consulted on the case and helped custom fit the 3-D printed arm with a silicone insert. Video from My50 Chicago Television coverage of the story featuring Mark Muller A sampling of other media coverage: 7-year-old Lakewood girl gets a new 'robohand' through 3-D printing technology -- Press-Telegram/Daily Breeze 3-D printer provides ... Read More
