California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) is proud to announce its selection as an Alumni Enrichment Institute Partner for the 2022 Alumni Enrichment Institutes, an opportunity for 2021 Mandela Washington Fellowship Alumni to travel to the United States in summer 2022 to collaborate with U.S. counterparts and each other and to continue building the professional and leadership skills they developed during their virtual 2021 Leadership Institutes. Beginning in late July, CSUDH and partners Charles R. Drew University and U.S Africa Institute will host 25 of Africa's bright, emerging leaders for a two-week Alumni Enrichment Institute, sponsored by the U.S. Department of State. The ... Read More
Archives for April 2022
Higher Ed Rewired Podcast: Esports – Changing the Game in Higher Ed
Source: Higher Ed Rewired Podcast Higher Ed Rewired is a CSU podcast series showcasing inspirational stories from higher education. Featured faculty and researchers bring listeners along on their journey of engaging students with innovative practices, overcoming institutional challenges and creating groundbreaking research. Each episode inspires and expands the listener's understanding of the foundations of student success in higher education. In this episode, the director of the National Association of Collegiate Esports, the EA Sports Association president at CSUDH, and two esports directors in the CSU system speak about how they're transforming the program and how this new way of ... Read More
Fall 2022 Prospective Students Get Big Toro Welcome During Admit Day
The CSUDH campus was buzzing with activity Saturday, April 9, as the university hosted more than 1,500 newly admitted students and their families for Toro Admit Day. The day provided the CSUDH community an opportunity to welcome prospective students to the Toro family and showcase all the departments, clubs, and resources that CSUDH has to offer. Toro Admit Day Photos(Click on image for larger gallery view.) ... Read More
CSUDH Alumna Helps the Public Stay Healthy
During her first meeting as a member of the McNair Scholars Program, CSUDH alumna Kristi Sprowl (BS, '16) was asked how she would impact the world if given the chance. Her answer: “I would like to create opportunities for people of color to live in equitable spaces, and also be a part of what health equity looks like for them.” Today, after years of hard work and study, Sprowl is living her dream as the community impact director for the American Heart Association in Atlanta, Ga., while simultaneously working towards a doctorate of public health at the University of Georgia. She attends night school with other working executives in the field–the people who will be “creating and ... Read More
CSUDH Biology Professor Recognized for Research
CSUDH Associate Professor of Biology Sonal Singhal has been honored by the Society for the Study of Evolution (SSE) for her research work on lizard speciation. Her paper “Strong Selection Against Hybrids Maintains a Narrow Contact Zone Between Morphologically Cryptic Lineages in a Rainforest Lizard” was named one of the 25 top works in speciation research by women authors by Evolution, SSE's prestigious international journal. Singhal co-authored the paper in 2011 with Craig Moritz, who at the time was director of the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at the University of California, Berkeley. Singhal's research focused on a pair of lizard species living in a “hybrid zone” of the Australian ... Read More
