This article originally appeared in the Fall 2019 issue of CSUDH Magazine. Gratitude is a familiar concept, but one that can be hard to specifically pin down, says Giacomo Bono. "Just like well-being or success, how do you define it?" "Sometimes I joke that gratitude is the most underappreciated value. People value it, but it's really a question of how you practice it. Even thought it seems like a simple behavior, the more you look at it, and the more you genuinely try to live up to it and practice it, the more meaningful your life gets." Bono, an assistant professor of psychology at CSUDH and co-author of the book Making Grateful Kids: The Science of Building Character, has spent ... Read More
Faculty Highlights: April 2018
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 Gilah Yelin Hirsch, professor of art, will be participating in the First International Painters’ Symposium “In the Navel of the Moon” in Mexico City, May 20-June 4. She also has been invited to give the keynote address titled “Illuminating the Invisible: The Power of Form” at the conference Logics of Image: Visual Learning, Logic and Philosophy of Form in East and West, which will be hosted by the ... Read More
Testing Your Brain on Tech with Katie Couric and Steve Aoki
The research of Professors of Psychology Mark Carrier and Larry Rosen, and Chair and Professor of Communications Nancy Cheever on people’s addiction to technology, particularly smartphones and social media, continues to attract media attention. Veteran journalist Katie Couric interviewed the professors for an episode of her new series on National Geographic Channel called “America Inside Out with Katie Couric.” Couric visited campus in November 2017 with electronic dance music DJ and social media celebrity Steve Aoki to talk with the professors about their recent research on the connection between smart phone use and brain anxiety and concentration levels. Cheever and Carrier ... Read More
Thomas A. Parham Appointed President of California State University, Dominguez Hills
The California State University (CSU) Board of Trustees has appointed Thomas A. Parham, Ph.D. to serve as president of California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH). Parham currently serves as vice chancellor, student affairs for the University of California, Irvine (UCI). “There is no greater blessing in life, next to being a parent, than being entrusted with the intellectual and personal growth and development of students, and I enthusiastically support the CSUDH mission to provide a transformative education to a wonderfully diverse and intellectually engaged student population,” said Parham. “This is a time of growth and opportunity for the university and there are many exciting ... Read More
CSUDH Art Gallery Curates Exhibition by Los Angeles Photographer Cindy Bendat
“Be the Change: Los Angeles Protest Photographs by Cindy Bendat, 2003-2017,” a photography exhibition featuring 58 timely and incisive protest photographs by California photographer Cindy Bendat, will open on Monday, Sept. 11, in the California State University, Dominguez Hill (CSUDH) University Art Gallery, and run through Oct. 10. Opening reception, Monday, Sept. 11, 5:30-7:30 p.m.; exhibit walk-through with Cindy Bendat at 6 p.m. Saturday exhibit walk-throughs with Cindy Bendat: Sept. 16, 10:30 a.m. and Oc. 7, 11 a.m. Bendat’s protest photographs in the exhibition reveal the visual power of people taking action in major protest movements in Los Angeles, including marches for immigrant ... Read More
