Toyota USA Foundation and California State University, Dominguez Hills announced today that together they will tackle workforce readiness issues head-on, creating a new Toyota Center for Innovation in STEM Education (Toyota Center) to inspire learning for students from kindergarten through college. Toyota USA Foundation's $4 million grant will support the design, construction, and equipment for a new 87,000+ square foot science and innovation building on the CSU Dominguez Hills campus, which will house the Toyota Center. It will include a fabrication lab, labs for K-12 teacher demonstrations and training, SMART classrooms, collaborative workspaces, and an outdoor workspace. “The ... Read More
Archives for February 2017
Student Research Day 2017 Highlights the Quality of Faculty-Mentored Research
Dozens of academically dynamic and diverse student researchers garnered top honors in 25 categories during California State University, Dominguez Hills' (CSUDH) 12th Annual Student Research Day (SRD) Feb. 15-16, showcasing the value and breadth of faculty-mentored research at the university. This year SRD yielded 349 research abstracts–more than any other year–from undergraduate and graduate students in nearly every academic department from which a total of 258 oral and poster presentations were selected for the conference. Topics at SRD covered a wide range of academic disciplines at the university, from history to health, business to biology, Chicana/o studies to computer ... Read More
Remembering Injustices Done to Japanese Americans During WWII
Good afternoon and thank you for being here. We are here today, 75 years after the fact, to remember Presidential Executive Order 9066, issued on February 19, 1942 that led to the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans. I know it is not lost on any of us that whenever people gather for a day of remembrance it is often because something immoral an injustice, occurred in the past. These remarks were given at the re-dedication of the university's Shinwa-en Japanese Garden as part of a day-long series of activities that included an academic symposium and opening reception of an archives exhibition related the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. Remembering is important. ... Read More
CSUDH Commemorates 75th Anniversary of Executive Order 9066
California State University, Dominguez Hills' (CSUDH) daylong commemoration of the 75th Anniversary of Executive Order 9066 (EO 9066), which led to the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII, drew hundreds of university friends and partners, and members of the campus community. On Feb. 19, 1942, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed EO 9066 authorizing the creation of military areas along thewest coast from which “any and all persons may be excluded” at the discretion of the secretary of war. The order paved the way for the government to remove tens of thousands of American citizens of Japanese descent and Japanese immigrants from their homes and place them in ... Read More
Terrorism Expert Mark Juergensmeyer: ‘Tolerance and Violence in the Mind of God’
Mark Juergensmeyer, author of the book “Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence” discussed his research on “religious terrorism” Feb. 7 to launch CSU Dominguez Hills' (CSUDH) semester-long speaker series “Tolerance and Violence in the Mind of God.” Juergensmeyer, a professor of sociology and director of global and international studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, is an expert in religious violence, conflict resolution, and the author of 22 books. His and other's work served as inspiration for CSUDH's speaker series, which explores the connection between religion and violence, solidarity, peacebuilding, and combating terrorism. “The rise of ... Read More
