For the second year in a row, a mental health conference focused on Latino students will be held at California State University, Dominguez Hills, on Friday, April 27, from 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., in the Loker Student Union ballroom. Geared toward Latinos aged 11 to 23, the free conference is expected to be attended by more than 150 students. Professor of Chicano/a studies and organizer for the conference Miguel Dominguez said the conference is an opportunity for students, parents, community leaders, counselors, health care providers, and educators to gain insight into the complexity of mental health issues and to begin to explore how to deal with them–mainly, identifying what constitutes a ... Read More
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Faculty Highlights – April 2012
Our faculty members participate in conferences around the world, conduct groundbreaking research, and publish books and articles that expand their knowledge and expertise. Here are a few recent highlights. Kenneth Brown, part-time lecturer in the Department of Physics, has been named to a newly created Education Technology Task Force by Tom Torlakson, state superintendent of public instruction. Through assessment of current technological infrastructure in the state's public schools and future needs, the new task force will make recommendations as to how new technologies can help improve teaching and learning in California classrooms. For more information about the task force, visit ... Read More
Lois W. Chi Named 2012 Katherine B. Loker Friend of Education
Perhaps more than any other professor in the history of California State University, Dominguez Hills, Lois W. Chi, professor emerita of biology, can say she has seen the university evolve. Chi will be presented with the Katherine B. Loker Friend of Education Award for her longtime commitment to the university, her students, and science at the 2012 President's Scholarship Reception on April 26. “I feel very honored. I [am] very lucky to get the award,” Chi said. As one of the 20 founding faculty members serving 180 students, she began teaching at the then-named California State College, Dominguez Hills in 1966. In fact, Chi taught the very first class held on the Watt campus, which was ... Read More
Peter Rodney (1948-2012): Theatre Professor’s Love of Teaching was Never an Act
California State University, Dominguez Hills, and the Department of Theatre and Dance have lost one of their leading men. Peter Rodney, professor of theatre arts, died on Saturday, April 14, after a long illness. He was 63. Rodney was born on April 29, 1948, in New York, New York. A fan of stage and screen from an early age, he was bitten by the acting bug in high school, when he played Devil in “Damn Yankees.” He continued performing in theatre productions while at Queens College of The City University of New York, where he majored in speech therapy. The college did not offer a theatre degree at the time; however he was able to incorporate theatre into his studies, using it as a tool ... Read More
John Auld (1940-2012): Historian Remembered for his Commitment to Students, University
One of California State University, Dominguez Hills Department of History's earliest professors, San Pedro resident John William Auld, passed away on April 8 from complications of dementia. He was 71. A Midwestern boy, Auld was born Dec. 30, 1940, in Marion, Ohio, and later moved with his family to Bucyrus, Ohio, where he graduated from Bucyrus High School in 1958. He attended The College of Wooster, in Wooster, Ohio, earning his bachelor's degree in 1962. In his senior year he received the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship award to pursue graduate education, and was accepted to Stanford University. He earned his master's degree from Stanford in 1964 and his Ph.D., specializing in ... Read More
Students and Faculty Show Work at American Museum of Ceramic Art
California State University, Dominguez Hills senior studio arts students Luis Avalos and Marco Cabrera, along with assistant professor of ceramic arts Jim Keville, have been selected to exhibit their ceramic art work at the American Museum of Ceramic Art (AMOCA) in Pomona. The exhibit “KilnOpening.edu 2012,” which showcases ceramic works of Southern California instructors and their students, opened with an artist's reception on April 14, and will continue through June 30. For the selection process each student was allowed to submit one piece and each ceramics professor could submit up to three pieces. The pieces submitted by Avalos and Cabrera (whose entry is actually a pairing of two ... Read More
National Military Award Recognizes University ROTC Instructor
“Leadership Excellence” is an Army Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) motto and one that Major Heath Papkov, assistant professor of military science at California State University, Dominguez Hills, lives by. In an affirmation of this, in February Papkov was given the 2011-12 Colonel Leo A. Codd Memorial Award. Presented to one outstanding ROTC instructor from each military branch of service –Army, Navy, and Air Force–the award is also known as the ROTC Instructor of the Year Award. Army nominees must hold the rank of lieutenant commander, major, or below, and are evaluated on such criteria as their teaching performance (including evaluations by students), counseling abilities, civilian ... Read More
Toro Night with LA Galaxy: Student Interns Put Their Degrees to the Test
Estevan Hernandez and Kishore Ramlagan are taking the ultimate test toward their business management and marketing degrees. Selected for a unique collaborative internship program between The Home Depot Center, the LA Galaxy, and the California State University, Dominguez Hills College of Business Administration and Public Policy, Hernandez and Ramlagan are putting into action the many lessons and concepts they've learned in their business classes to get as many Toros as they can to buy tickets to an LA Galaxy Major League Soccer game. The “Toro Night” game is on Saturday, April 28, against FC Dallas. Using phrases such as “target marketing” and “SWOT analysis” –SWOT stands for ... Read More
Ramon Torrecilha: Meet the Provost
Bringing with him more than a decade of university administration experience and a life's story that illustrates what a dream and a college education can do for an individual, Ramon Torrecilha became California State University, Dominguez Hills's new provost and vice president for academic affairs on Feb. 20. Born in Brazil to a Puerto Rican father and Brazilian mother, Torrecilha spent much of his youth at a state school for poor children, where he took classes in the morning and worked in the fields in the afternoon. When he moved to the United States at the age of 17, he once again worked the fields, this time picking fruit in an orchard in the state of Washington. But Torrecilha ... Read More
French Film Festival at CSU Dominguez Hills Explores Cultural Diversity
Five French films will be showcased over five days in April at California State University, Dominguez Hills when the French American Cultural Exchange (FACE) Tournées Festival of French Films comes to campus. Co-sponsored by the Department of History and the Phi Alpha Theta history honors society, the 2012 Tournées Festival at CSU Dominguez Hills will screen the following films (with English subtitles): “Persepolis,” Wed., April 4; “L'avocat de la terreur” (“Terror's Advocate”), Tues., April 10; “Le chant des mariées” (“The Wedding Song”), Wed., April 11; “Entre les murs” (“The Class”), Tues., April 17; and “Welcome,” Wed., April 18. Adrien Sarre, executive director of the Consulate ... Read More
