Sean Rodriguez did much more than get a “peek behind closed doors” in the U.S. Capitol building while in Washington D.C. recently. He received the unique opportunity to sit in chairs that have been occupied by congressional leaders, Supreme Court justices and historic American figures. For two and a half months, Rodriguez, a Master of Arts double major in Negotiation, Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding/History and Political Science at California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH), lived and worked in the nation's capital as a recipient of the Panetta Institute for Public Policy's Congressional Internship. After an intensive two weeks of preparation at the nonpartisan study ... Read More
CSU Dominguez Hills Awarded $2.9 Millon Grant to Improve Academic Skills of Graduate Students
California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) has received a five-year $2.9 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education's (DOE) Title-V, Part B-PPOHA (Promoting Postbaccalaureate Opportunities for Hispanic Americans) program to launch the Graduate Writing Institute for Excellence (GWIE). The institute will advance the reading, writing and research skills of the university's graduate students through a comprehensive skills enhancement program, and seek to develop additional academic and professional partnerships that will help foster student success. Thirty-six percent of CSUDH's graduate student population is Hispanic. The DOE grant will enable the GWIE to advance academic ... Read More
Going Underground to Understand the Universe
By Laurie McLaughlin A half-mile underground, an enormous steel tank is filled with 50,000 tons of water surrounded by light-detecting devices. It serves partly as a giant target for cosmic particles–like protons, electrons, and neutrons–raining down on Earth from the sky. One type of particle, the neutrino, has been somewhat of a mystery to physicists until recent decades, but its activity helps explain how the sun and stars continue to shine. “We don't realize it, but trillions of neutrinos travel through our bodies every second,” said California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) professor of physics James Hill, who has been studying this very tiny phenomenon for more ... Read More
Margaret White Offers Students and Faculty Service with a Smile
Margaret “Maggie” White may be described by her colleagues as “the face of the department” or “extremely efficient,” but it was the “blur of smiles,” hand waves and a personal favorite–the hugs– that stood out the most for recent communications graduate Megan Murray. For these and many other reasons, White, an administrative support coordinator in the Department of Communications main office, was honored with California State University, Dominguez Hills' Excellence in Customer Service Award during the 2014 Staff Award ceremony in October. “I spent a lot of time in the communications building, and more specifically, the main office. While Maggie White was always happy to answer my ... Read More
Playwright Tarell McCraney talks ‘In the Red and Brown Water’
Theatre arts students at California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) who are the cast and stage team in the upcoming university's production of Tarell Alvin McCraney's acclaimed play “In the Red and Brown Water” were treated to a rare examination of the play when the celebrated playwright stopped by campus for a visit. The play will run in CSUDH's University Theatre, Nov. 13-16, performed by students in the Department of Theatre Arts and Dance, and members of the Performance Studies and Arts Research Collective, which was created by assistant professor of theatre Sharrell Luckett, who began teaching at the university in 2013. Consisting of theatre, dance, biology, business, ... Read More
