The National Park Service has awarded a two-year $321,554 grant to California State University, Dominguez Hills' (CSUDH) Archives and Special Collections to serve as principal investigator on a collaborative project between archives at 15 CSU campuses to digitize nearly 10,000 documents and more than 100 oral histories related to the confinement of Japanese Americans during World War II. The CSU Japanese American Digitization Project will make these materials available on a CSU-sponsored website and also result in a teaching guide and traveling exhibit for schools and the public. “It is heartening to have the National Park Service acknowledge the scale and importance of the CSU's ... Read More
University’s DHTV Wins Three Telly Awards
DHTV, the broadcast programming service of California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH), has been honored with three 2015 Telly Awards. Founded in 1978, the Telly Awards honors the very best film & video productions, groundbreaking online video content, and outstanding local, regional, and cable TV commercials and programs. DHTV won for its "OSHA Entertainment Safety Certificate" commercial, "Freshman Convocation - Wrap-Up" video, and "Dig It: Anthropology" about anthropology students conducting research at Dominguez Rancho Adobe Museum. The videos were selected out of almost 12,000 entries from all 50 states and five continents. Click here for information on the Telly ... Read More
Water Wise & Life Friendly: Connie Vadheim Educates Community on Natives Plants
Following one of California's driest winters, South Bay gardeners will need to make some choices about their thirsty rose bushes and tomato plants. The good news is that appropriate regional water-wise landscapes are not all cactus and rock gardens, according to Constance M. Vadheim, a CSU Dominguez Hills adjunct professor of biology. “There are many drought-tolerant native shrubs that are evergreen or bloom with pretty flowers,” she said. “The lemonade berry, for example, has beautiful flowers, edible berries, and birds love it.” For more than 10 years, Vadheim has volunteered her extensive hands-on knowledge of California's native, water-wise plants with creative and practical ... Read More
Jason Loyola, Gilman scholarship recipient, to study abroad in Chile this summer
Jason Loyola, a California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) marketing student who will be studying abroad this summer in Santiago, Chile, looks forward to the personal growth he will acquire while on his own in the South American country, but most of all he is excited about immersing himself in Chilean culture. Loyola, who will leave for Chile June 18 and return Aug. 11, was the only CSUDH student awarded the congressionally funded Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship in spring 2015, and one of only 860 in the nation. “I'm staying with a host family. I had the option of staying in my own apartment but I felt I wouldn't experience much culture staying by myself, or the ... Read More
AB 540 students share challenges and triumphs with consul general of Mexico
After crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, 14-year-old Belen Mercado walked with her two brothers through the desert for two days and slept in the cold sand by night to reunite with her mother, whom they had not seen since she had migrated from Guadalajara, Mexico, to the United States a couple years prior. Mercado soon enrolled in middle school and began leading the life of an undocumented immigrant teenager. She is now an AB 540 student at California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) who wants to major in English. “It was nice to see my mother again. There were a lot of experiences that I had to go through, but I reunited with my mom after two years in Mexico without a ... Read More
