CSUDH has launched a new program designed to help students who left the university before completing their degree. Once a Toro, Always a Toro is a degree completion pathway that removes many of the barriers that often dissuade former students from re-enrolling, giving them the confidence to re-launch their career goals, improving their earning potential, and exemplifying college completion for themselves, their family, and their community. “CSUDH students who have paused their education often cite the challenges of balancing work, school, family obligations, financial hardships, and personal challenges,” said Sabrina Sanders, who oversees the program. Once a Toro, Always a Toro is ... Read More
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CSUDH Alumni Bring OT Skills to Their Texas Practice
CSUDH Occupational Therapy (OT) alumni Hiram Corona Martinez and Vanessa Yanez long dreamed of running their own practice - and in June 2021, their plans came to fruition with their Bravo Therapy & Independent Living Center in San Antonio, Tex. The married couple's practice quickly become a success due to their patient-first focus on quality care. During the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the couple began to recognize certain patterns in health care that they wanted to change and do differently, explains Yanez. “We saw a real lack of diversity in health care administration and management. Many of them didn't understand our culture, even though a lot of the patients and clients ... Read More
Dymally Institute Hosts International Jazz Festival April 30
Legendary jazz artists Poncho Sanchez and David Sanborn will headline the third annual Dymally International Jazz & Arts Festival on International Jazz Day–Saturday, April 30. Presented by the California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) Mervyn M. Dymally African American Political and Economic Institute and Rainbow Productions, the festival will take place on the CSUDH campus at the Dignity Health Sports Park Tennis Stadium beginning at 2 p.m. (gates open at 1 p.m.). “We are thrilled to share our internationalist mission through cultural art at a time when the world desperately needs solidarity,” said Anthony Asadullah Samad, executive director of the Dymally Institute. “The ... Read More
Faculty Highlights: April 2022
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. To share faculty news, email ucm@csudh.edu. College of Arts & Humanities Salim Faraji, professor of Africana Studies, gave a guest lecture at Stanford University to students in Anthropology 134, “Museum Cultures: Exhibiting the African Imaginary,” where he addressed questions regarding museum stewardship of the material cultures of diverse African communities within the context of practices that prompt efforts of restitution, ... Read More
CSUDH Selected as 2022 Alumni Enrichment Institute Partner
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
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
Chemistry Lecturer Barbara Belmont Named LGBTQ+ Trailblazer
Chemistry Lecturer Barbara Belmont has been recognized as an LGBTQ+ Trailblazer in Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN), the newsmagazine of the American Chemical Society. Belmont, an analytical chemist from Pasadena, is “thrilled and humbled” by the accolade, which recognizes her excellence in teaching, as well as activism with Out to Innovate, a professional society dedicated to LGBTQ+ visibility in the sciences, mentoring, and scholarships for students. Having taught at CSUDH since 2002, Belmont is passionate about sparking students' curiosity in the sciences and adopting pedagogical best practices in her lectures and laboratories. She is also a firm believer in the value of ... Read More
