Special Olympics World Games Los Angeles 2015 has announced that the City of Carson will serve as a “Host Town” for a delegation of athletes and coaches from another country, and that California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) will provide them housing accommodations leading up to the games, which take place in Los Angeles July 25 - Aug. 2, 2015. The announcement came during a press conference on Oct. 27 in the courtyard at CSUDH's Student Housing complex. The event included remarks from Bill Shumard, president and CEO of Special Olympics Southern California, CSUDH Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Ellen Junn, Carson Mayor James Dear, and World Games athlete and ... Read More
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‘Crossing Borders’ Exhibition Explores Migration in Contemporary Art
“Crossing Borders: Stories of Migration in Contemporary Art,” a new exhibit in the California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) University Art Gallery, opened Oct. 22 to packed room of artists and enthusiasts who were treated to artistic examinations centered around the U.S.-Mexico border where migrants often find themselves at odds with cultural bias and political issues. The exhibit features paintings, prints, pencil drawings, photographs and sculptures shown through the eclectically creative minds of six artists: Los Angeles-based artists Ramiro Gomez, Nery Gabriel Lemus, Oscar Magallanes, Antonio Pelayo, Eric Almanza and San Jose pure-fiber artist Consuelo Jimenez ... Read More
CSU Dominguez Hills Archives Department Puts Historical Long Beach Fire Department Photos Online
Thousands of historical images depicting 70 years of the Long Beach Fire Department, beginning in 1898, are now accessible online through the California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) Department of Archives and Special Collections' website at http://digitalcollections.archives.csudh.edu. The 5,000 photos are part of a collection of more than 9,000 negatives and prints donated to CSUDH four years ago by the Long Beach Firemen's Historical Museum, the result of a Long Beach Naval Memorial Heritage Association grant to digitally preserve the images. After years of cataloging, the CSUDH archives department recently launched the web page to make digital images available to a ... Read More
Professor Needham Shines Light on Cambodian Shadow Puppetry
Despite its name, shadow puppetry glows from a spiritually whimsical manipulation of light; although there was a time when an unfathomable darkness nearly wiped the little-known art form out of existence. From 1976 to 1979, nearly 90 percent of the artists in Cambodia, where shadow puppetry was created in the early ninth century, were killed along with roughly 2 million others during the Cambodian Genocide carried out by the regime of the Khmer Rouge. Thirty-five years later, most Americans still know very little about Cambodia's culture, let alone shadow puppetry which even in Cambodia is relatively obscure and today, for the most part, only enjoyed by the affluent. Professor ... Read More
Faculty Highlights: October 2014
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 Miguel Dominguez, professor of modern languages, presented “No problemo. The Other 'Spanglish': Hispanisms in U.S. English” at the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese's 2014 Conference on Portuguese and Hispanic Languages and Literature, which took place on Oct. 11 at Moreno Valley College. Exploring the use of words like el Niño, alligator, fritos, rodeo, gratis, and toros in the ... Read More
Kaiser Internship Offers Kinesiology Students Unique Experience
Nicole Chambers and Wendy Barrios, seniors studying kinesiology at California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH), will have a significant advantage when applying for post-graduate healthcare programs, and invaluable work experience that is often hard to acquire at the undergraduate level. The students, who both are earning their Bachelors of Arts in Physical Education, with the pre-physical therapy option, at CSUDH, were chosen as the first recipients of the new Kaiser Permanente Mobility Technician Internship, which was launched in the fall 2014. Developed through a partnership between CSUDH's Division of Kinesiology and Recreation and Kaiser Permanente South Bay Medical ... Read More
CSU Dominguez Hills Named Among Top Universities Granting Degrees to Minorities
California State University, Dominguez Hills is among the nation's top 100 universities granting undergraduate and graduate degrees to minority students, according to Diverse: Issues in Higher Education. In the magazine's “Top 100 Degree Producers” report published this month, CSU Dominguez Hills ranked 47th nationally in total number of bachelor's degrees and 88th in total number of master's degrees awarded to minority students during 2012-13, the academic year for which the magazine had data as reported to the U.S. Department of Education. The university also ranked in the Top 100 in several minority groups for bachelor's degrees awarded, including to Hispanics (35th), African ... Read More
‘Vision Tree’ Project Enables CSUDH Alumnus, Students to Help Military Veterans
Eric, a U.S. military veteran, hangs his cat's rescue animal tag on his miniature, three-dimensional tree along with several oranges. The items may seem a bit random, but they are significant to Eric. His cat is his best friend and provides him much-needed emotional support, while the oranges remind him of his childhood and family home that had an orange tree in the yard. Made of floral wire and plaster, Eric constructed his art piece as part of the “Vision Tree,” an art therapy project designed by California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) alumnus Teddy Um (Class of '14, M.A., occupational therapy). The six-week project has successfully helped improve coping skills for U.S. ... Read More
Library Hosts Talk on Upton Sinclair’s 1934 EPIC Race for Governor
In conjunction with the November 2014 elections and an ongoing exhibition on campus, “Citizen Sinclair: Upton Sinclair--American Provocateur,” the University Library at California State University, Dominguez Hills presents author and journalist Greg Mitchell discussing muckraker Upton Sinclair's 1934 run for Governor of California and the evolution of the modern political campaign. WHAT: Guest lecture with author Greg Mitchell: “Upton Sinclair's 1934 run for Governor and the birth of the modern political campaign” WHEN: 6 p.m., Thursday, October 30 WHERE: University Library, fifth floor, South Wing, CSUDH, 1000 E. Victoria St., Carson Viewed as a radical by conservatives and a ... Read More
‘Feria de Educación’ Attracts More Than 20,000 Latinos
With a box full of books precariously balanced on his shoulder, Jaime Torres checked out some of the displays on the main fairground during the sixth annual “Feria de Educación” Hispanic education fair at California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) on Oct. 11. The day before Torres, who lives in Palmdale, had heard about the fair while watching the news on Univision 34, KMEX. His son, Billy, attends the College of the Canyons in Valencia, so while his family was out of town, Torres decided to come and gather education information and books for his much younger children at the fair, and see if he could find used textbooks related to his son's major–social work–in the University ... Read More
