Works of art ranging from posters, digital designs, motion graphics, socially engaged ad campaigns, e-branding identity, packaging, photographs and web design to mixed media assemblage, ceramic sculpture, drawings, zines and paintings–all created by 30 California State University, Dominguez Hills design and studio art graduates–will be featured in a showcase and exhibition of student work in April in the University Art Gallery: “Vantage Point: Senior Design Showcase” and “Content: 2017 Senior Studio Art Exhibition.” What and When: Vantage Point: Senior Design Showcase, Thursday, April 13, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Content: 2017 Senior Studio Art Exhibition April 24- May 4; Opening Reception, ... Read More
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Michael Spagna Named Provost, VP for Academic Affairs at CSU Dominguez Hills
Following a national search, Willie J. Hagan, president of California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH), has appointed Michael E. Spagna as provost and vice president for academic affairs effective July 1, 2017. Since 2008, Spagna has been dean of the Michael D. Eisner College of Education at California State University, Northridge (CSUN), where he is known as a strong collaborator with extensive experience and diverse perspectives. At CSUN, he cultivated a relationship with Michael and Jane Eisner resulting in a $7 million gift to the university's Center for Teaching and Learning, where Spagna served as executive director for seven years. “As he articulated during his ... Read More
Haynes Foundation Grant Preserves Photographs Documenting Japanese-American Life in L.A.
California State University, Dominguez Hill's (CSUDH) Library Archives and Special Collections has received a $39,200 archival grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation to continue preserving the history of Japanese Americans in Los Angeles and throughout the state. Specifically, the grant will be used to create the Ninomiya Photography Studio Collection Access Project at CSUDH and preserve, catalog, and archive approximately 10,000 packets of photographic negatives taken by the former Ninomiya Studio, which was owned and operated by Japanese American photographer Ichiro Ninomiya in the Little Tokyo area of Los Angeles. Dating between 1949 and 1970, the negatives ... Read More
Faculty Highlights: March 2017
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 Laura Talamante, associate professor in the Department of History, had her article “Political Divisions, Gender and Politics: The Case of Revolutionary Marseille" published in the March 2017 issue of French History (Oxford University Press). Through the lens of regional politics, including divisions between Jacobins and Federalists in Marseille, this article highlights the malleability of gender constructs. ... Read More
Nancy Deng on Information, Communication Tech, and Human-Centered Design
The “Excellence in Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity Award” acknowledges that research, scholarship and creative activities that are essential components of the mission of CSUDH, and recognizes a professor's professional activities that provide intellectual stimulation and motivation for student learning. Nancy Deng has participated in ingenious research and projects at California State University, Dominguez Hills. She promotes undergraduate student research as a faculty mentor, judge and Student Research Day session chair, and incorporates the latest business analytics research regarding the job market in her curriculum and programs. Deng also applies the latest research to her ... Read More
Mary T. Lacanlale on Asian Pacific Culture
A Q&A with Mary T. Lacanlale, interim coordinator of the Asian Pacific Studies program, the 2017 “Catherine H. Jacobs, Outstanding Faculty Lecturer Award” winner. Non-tenure track lecturers play a valuable part in the academic success of students and the university community as a whole, and the Catherine H. Jacobs Outstanding Faculty Lecturer Award acknowledges their contribution by recognizing an individual who has demonstrated excellence in teaching effectiveness and overall contribution to California State University, Dominguez Hills. Mary T. Lacanlale has been a lecturer at CSUDH since 2011, teaching courses in the Asian-Pacific studies and humanities programs. She currently is ... Read More
Helen Oesterheld: 2017 Faculty Award winner for ‘Excellence in Service’
A Q&A with Helen Oesterheld. associated professor of English, 2017 Faculty Award winner for “Excellence in Service.” The Excellence in Service Award recognizes the role faculty play in the governance and development of California State University, Dominguez Hills, but also the contributions they make to their fields of expertise. In her 13 years at CSU Dominguez Hills Helen Oesterheld has been active on both fronts. In addition to her teaching load within the Department of English and the External Humanities (HUX) online master's degree program, Oesterheld has served the university in a number of capacities, from department chair to Academic Senate member; faculty adviser to the ... Read More
Daily Breeze Features Story on Campus Master Plan
A new master plan for Cal State Dominguez Hills' sprawling 1960s-era north Carson campus calls for upscale shops and housing to meet the needs of students and generate revenue to bolster austere state funding. University officials hope to develop the unwelcoming east side of the 261-acre campus with public-private business partnerships for restaurants, shops, market-rate apartments, student and faculty housing, and offices ... Source: Daily Breeze ... Read More
Professor Vivian Price Awarded Fulbright Scholarship to Teach in Liverpool, England
Vivian Price, professor of Interdisciplinary Studies/PACE and coordinator of Labor Studies at California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH), has been awarded a 2017-18 Fulbright Scholarship to teach at the University of Liverpool in England during the spring 2018 semester. In Liverpool, Price will teach a course focused on labor studies and the environment that is tailored to the region. Her students will research how trade unions and the Labour Party are addressing the important issues of jobs and the environment. Toward the end of the semester the students' work will be on public display. “After studying literature on labor and the environment, students will interview ... Read More
In Search of Diversity in the World of Physics
While Ximena Cid was growing up, her family marched alongside Cesar Chavez and farm workers advocating for Chicano civil rights. “My parents raised us in a very social-activist family,” says Cid, whose mother is Chicana and Native-American Yaqui, and her father was born in Mexico. When Cid embarked on an education in the sciences, she was keenly aware of her ethnic difference; there were not many people of color pursuing physics, and there were certainly very few women of color in her classes. She was the first person of Latin-American or Native-American decent to graduate with a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Texas, Arlington. In the decade since, Cid, an assistant professor ... Read More
