Students and faculty in the Labor Studies Program at California State University, Dominguez Hills welcome labor and community organizations from across the greater Los Angeles area to celebrate the Seventh Annual Labor, Social and Environmental Justice Fair on Thursday, April 30, on campus. From immigration reform to workers' rights to economic and environmental conscience policies, people are uniting to create real social change, and the fair's theme, “Uprising" aims to highlight these organizing drives of the Social Justice Movement. Greg Akili from the Black Worker Center and Mark Lopez from East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice are this year's keynote speakers. “We're ... Read More
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3 CSUDH chemistry students share their research at ACS conference
Three California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) chemistry students had the opportunity to not only present their own research, but view poster and verbal research presentations by their peers during the 33rd Annual Southern California Undergraduate Research Conference in Chemistry and Biochemistry (SCURCCB), held at the University of California, San Diego on April 11. Hosted by the Southern California Section of the American Chemical Society (ACS), the conference attracted nearly 150 chemistry and biochemistry undergraduate researchers from more than 25 post-secondary institutions. Noman Al, a junior studying chemistry at CSUDH, presented his poster “Estimation of ... Read More
Book Signing, April 29: ‘Demonic to Divine: The Double Life of Shulamis Yelin’
When Gilah Yelin Hirsch first read her mother's 70 diaries and discovered the extent of the physical and psychological abuse she had endured from infancy to the age of 16, rather than loathing her, she felt “love, empathy and compassion for her mother,” the celebrated Canadian author Shulamis Yelin. “I grew to admire her for all that she had accomplished despite the extremes of her mental illness and her very difficult life,” said Hirsch, professor of art at California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH). “The greatest difficulty in reading the diaries was seeing the severity and depth of her suffering, and reading how although on a certain level I and others who were close to her ... Read More
National Poetry Month: 3 CSUDH poets share insights, teaching and their writing
There is a reason the departure from the conventional rules of writing and speaking is often referred to as poetic license. As poets try to tell narrative or more personal stories based on the world around them through their prose, rules on writing could hinder their ability to creatively dissect observations, draw from cherished memories, or tap strong emotions attached to painful life experiences. To celebrate poets and their renegade spirit, the Academy of American Poets inaugurated the month of April as National Poetry Month in 1996. Today it is the largest literary celebration in the world. At California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH), poetry has a subtle voice, but it ... Read More
Alumna Jimmie Thompson to step down from CSU Alumni Council
The California State University (CSU) Alumni Council has honored California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) alumna Jimmie Thompson with a commendation for her tireless leadership in alumni relations and support for the entire 23-campus CSU system. Thompson ('92, B.A., political science; '94, M.A., negotiation and conflict management), an eight-year member of the CSU Alumni Council where she served as secretary from 2011 to 2012 and was as a frequent legislative advocate who met with elected officials in Sacramento to discuss CSU priorities, will step down from the CSU Alumni Council in June 2015. “I am beyond appreciative for the commendation from the CSU. I've always enjoyed ... Read More
West Basin Cuts Ribbon on Ocean Friendly Garden at University Housing
Officials from West Basin Municipal Water District, Surfrider Foundation and the university celebrated the unveiling of a West Basin Ocean Friendly Garden (OFG) on campus during a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Thursday, March 26. Located just outside the entrance gates to the University Housing complex, the garden replaces nearly 7,000 square-feet of grass with 250 water-saving, drought-tolerant trees and plants native to Southern California and will save up to 80 percent of the water previously required for landscaping. Additionally, it is designed to redirect and capture water from the street to allow for natural irrigation of the garden. The OFG program is part of West Basin's Water ... Read More
Political Science Department Hosts Panel Discussion on Human Trafficking
There is a big open secret here on this campus and throughout the cities beyond. Something that impacts all of us. You might see glimpses of this crime in the neighborhood or in the local grocery store. They look like ordinary people; actual chains do not bind them, but they are nevertheless enslaved. Human trafficking, in its many forms and variants, is alive and thriving throughout every community in Southern California, and the world at large. Indeed there are more people alive and enslaved today than ever in this planet's history On Tuesday, April 14, from 2:30 to 4 p.m., the Department of Political Science at California State University, Dominguez Hills will present an open forum ... Read More
Syndicated Political Commentator Earl Ofari Hutchinson Gives Library Talk April 15
Earl Ofari Hutchinson, noted author, political and social commentator and alumnus of California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH), will give a talk and book signing on his latest book “From King to Obama, Witness to a Turbulent History” at the University Library on Wednesday, April 15, at 6 p.m. The talk is in conjunction with the CSUDH Archives' and Special Collections exhibition “The Font of Black Culture in Los Angeles, the Alfred and Bernice Ligon Aquarian Collection,” which features items from the recent acquisition of books, photographs and documents related to the Aquarian Book Shop, the longest-running black-owned bookstore in Los Angeles and its owners. Hutchinson ... Read More
Author Sarah Shun-lien Bynum gives 2015 Patricia Eliet Memorial Lecture
The California State University, Dominguez Hills Department of English welcomes novelist Sarah Shun-lien Bynum as the featured speaker for its 2015 Patricia Eliet Memorial Lecture from 7 to 9 p.m., Monday, April 27, in the Loker Student Union Ballroom. The lecture is free and open to the public. Bynum is the author of two novels, "Ms. Hempel Chronicles," a finalist for the 2009 PEN/Faulkner Award, and "Madeleine Is Sleeping," winner of the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize and a finalist for the 2004 National Book Award. Her fiction has appeared in many magazines and anthologies, including the New Yorker, Ploughshares, Tin House, the Georgia Review, and the Best American Short Stories 2004 and ... Read More
Community Engagement Symposium highlights service-learning at CSUDH
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
