Sarah Lacy really likes a “good brow ridge.” She thinks “it’s hot!” In class, Lacy, a new assistant professor of anthropology at California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH), and her anthropology students call that facial characteristic a “supraorbital torus,” which was sported by Neandertals around 40,000 years ago. They have also given the long-extinct human species a “sexy” social media presence with Lacy posing with their skulls in a series she calls “Hot Hominin of the Day.” “I dress a bit unusual, and my students were joking about it. They thought I should create an ‘Outfit of the Day’ blog. It seemed a little frivolous, so I came up with a way to have fun with that idea, ... Read More
Archives for December 2017
Paz Oliverez named Outstanding First-Year Student Advocate by National Resource Center
Paz Oliverez, associate vice president for student success at California State University, Dominguez Hills’ (CSUDH), has been named a 2017 Outstanding First-Year Student Advocate by the National Resource Center First-Year Experience and Students in Transition (NRC). She received the prestigious honor for her role in developing some of the most robust programs for first-year college students in the university’s history. Under the umbrella of the award-winning two-year Bridge initiative on campus, Oliverez has led CSUDH to its highest first-year student retention rate in 22 years by providing visionary leadership and an overarching and comprehensive approach to the university’s Dominguez ... Read More
Alumnus Victor McKamie Helps MAP a Better Life for Those with HIV/AIDS
“For a lot of our clients, they felt they had zero, then they became infected with HIV, and felt they had less.” For the past 28 years, Victor McKamie (’98, B.A., sociology; ’01, M.S., public administration), executive director and CEO of Minority AIDS Project (MAP) in Los Angeles, and his colleagues have been successfully showing their clients with that feeling of having “less” that they have so much "more;" more to accomplish, more to give, and more reason to live. The not-for-profit organization was founded in 1985 by Archbishop Carl Bean and members of Unity Fellowship of Christ Church in Los Angeles California. It is the first community-based HIV/AIDS organization established and ... Read More
CSUDH Student Ramneek Kaur Honored for Spreading HOPE
For Ramneek Kaur, helping others requires a lot of hard work, and plenty of hope. Kaur, a cellular and molecular biology major at California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH), is providing hope in her own way, as president of the Homeless Outreach Promoting Empathy (HOPE) student organization. HOPE’s outreach involves providing hygiene kits, medical care, and assistance for homeless individuals—up to three times per month—by organizing events in areas where homelessness is prevalent. “My passion for community involvement comes from growing up and realizing the issues surrounding our community, and seeing people struggle for basic needs, like hygiene items,” said Kaur, who ... Read More
