(Carson, CA) - The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has awarded California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies Patricia Kalayjian a three-year, $289,076 Scholarly Editions and Translations grant to co-create a digital edition of the complete letters of 19th Century American novelist Catharine Maria Sedgwick. Work on the digitization project will begin in January 2020. Titled “Catharine Maria Sedgwick Online Letters,” the digitization project will be led by Kalayjian with the support of co-project directors Lucinda Damon-Bach, professor of English at Salem State University in Massachusetts, and Deborah Gussman, professor of American ... Read More
Archive
University Honored with LAEDC’s Prestigious Eddy Award
California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) was honored with a prestigious Eddy Award during the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation's (LAEDC) 24th Annual Eddy Awards gala dinner on Nov. 7. The award recognized CSUDH's excellence in academia and outstanding efforts to provide access to higher education in Los Angeles. More than 600 people attended the gala at the JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. Live to honor the “Most Business-Friendly City” award recipients: the City of Lancaster and the City of La Mirada. Other honorees were Citibank, and Phillip A. Washington, CEO of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transit Authority. President Thomas A. Parham accepted the ... Read More
CSUDH Hosts Beam Signing Ceremony for Innovation and Instruction Building
(Carson, CA) - California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) will host a beam signing ceremony on Nov. 14 at 11 a.m. for its new four-story, 107,600-square-foot Innovation and Instruction Building to mark a new phase in its construction, and celebrate its role in the transformation of the physical campus. The building is scheduled to be open in time for fall classes in 2021. During the ceremony, CSUDH President Thomas A. Parham and members of the campus community will sign their names and messages on the last steel beam to be placed during the framing phase of the Innovation and Instruction Building. Adding their mark during the beam signing ceremony will be Carson City Council ... Read More
2019 Economic Forecast Shows Slowing yet Stable Economy in the South Bay
After years of solid economic growth, the South Bay's local economy will experience some slowing in 2020, but will remain stable due in part to the federal government's high level of defense spending in the region. Such was one of the many economic projections presented in the 2019 South Bay Economic Forecast and Industry Outlook, which California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) released on Oct. 29 as part of the fifth annual South Bay Economic Forecast conference hosted on campus. Approximately 200 guests representing cities and businesses throughout the region attended. CSUDH developed the report and the conference to provide a focused look at the current state of the ... Read More
College Futures Foundation Awards $410,000 to Support Young Males of Color Consortium
The College Futures Foundation has awarded a two-year $410,000 grant to support the California State University's (CSU) Young Males of Color (YMOC) Consortium in its efforts to improve degree completion for male students of color by identifying, validating, and scaling encouraging practices at five CSU campuses. The grant is funded from July 1, 2019, through June 30, 2021. California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) serves as the YMOC's fiscal agent, while working closely with consortium partners CSU Fullerton, Cal Poly Pomona, CSU Sacramento, and CSU Bakersfield. The five campuses were selected to be part of the consortium for their success in advancing male-focused initiatives ... Read More
South Bay Economic Forecast: Local Economy will Slow Next Year, but Won’t Slip into Recession
The South Bay's economy is expected to downshift in 2020, along with the national and global economies, but will remain stable, according to the fifth annual South Bay Economic Forecast, which was released Tuesday afternoon, Oct. 29. Despite the downshift, the report never mentioned the word “recession.” The report was commissioned by the South Bay Economics Institute at Cal State Dominguez Hills, in Carson, and released during a conference of regional business leaders titled “A Region in Transition: Advances in Innovative Technology.” The forecast discussed 2020 and looked back at some of the economic data from 2018; it did not, however, discuss the region's economy so far this ... Read More
Top 10 Universities that Attract Latino Students
The ultimate goal of a university is to accept diversity behind their students' different cultures. A university must ensure that students are comfortable and are at ease once they entered the campus. Hence, the mental and psychological domains of students must be well acculturated aside from their welfare. Today, let's take a look at the top 10 universities that attract latino students the most. The data recently gathered by U.S. news annual survey highlighted the top 10 universities that attract latino students who are seeking undergraduate degrees in the fall of 2017. According to a report published in usnews.com, the following are the universities that attract latino students: The data ... Read More
Theatre and Dance Presents David Lindsay-Abaire’s Comedy ‘Fuddy Meers’
(Carson, Calif.) California State University, Dominguez Hills' (CSUDH) Department of Theatre and Dance presents playwright David Lindsay-Abaire's “Fuddy Meers,” referred to by the New York Times as a “poignant yet brutal comedy that traces one woman's attempt to regain her memory while surrounded by alarming and bizarre characters.” The play will run Nov. 8, 9, 13-16 at 8 p.m., and Nov. 10, 15-17 at 2 p.m. in CSUDH's Edison Theatre. Claire, the protagonist in “Fuddy Meers,” has a rare form of psychogenic amnesia that erases her memory whenever she goes to sleep. There is her chipper husband, her pot smoking son, her mother - a recent stroke victim whose speech has been compromised, and a ... Read More
CSUDH Computer/Math Major Offered Two Aerospace Jobs at STEM Conference
Thar Soe may still have a semester to go before earning undergraduate degrees in both computer science and mathematics from California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH), but he already has been offered jobs from two major aerospace companies. Soe received the job offers while attending the 31st Annual Great Minds in STEM (GMIS) Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Awards Conference (HENAAC) on Sept. 25-29 in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. The conference offers thousands of students from across the United States a chance to access cutting-edge technologies, participate in professional development competitions, explore internships and graduate schools, and the opportunity to interview ... Read More
Faculty Highlights: October 2019
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. Recent quotes and/or interviews in the media from faculty “It is not uncommon to see users delete photos that don't get enough likes shortly after they are uploaded to keep their presence curated with their best performing pieces of content. “Since we spend more time online, where we don't get positive reinforcements from facial gestures, hugs, and other nonverbal cues, we try to get it from likes.” - Larry Rosen, emeritus professor of ... Read More
