Carson's Cal State Dominguez Hills has received $10 million in federal grants to establish a comprehensive residency program that will train more than 250 science, technology, engineering and math teachers and serve 40,000 students through grade 12 in Los Angeles County. Dubbed Project REAL – Residency for Equity through Action and Learning – the 15-month-long residency provides graduate-level STEM teacher candidates with a $24,000 stipend and pairs them with trained teachers in historically understaffed local schools. “This is transformational for the campus community and for the schools and communities we serve,” said Prof. Kamal Hamden, director of the Center for Innovation in STEM ... Read More
CSUDH Welcomes California Senate College Tour
California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) welcomed four California legislators on October 7 as part of their California Senate College Tour. The two-year tour is primarily focused on the academic success of students from historically underserved populations. They left campus touched by the CSUDH's broad commitment to student achievement and well being, and offered their help at the state level. The senate's fact-finding tour was designed to provide insights into the barriers that are impeding student success in college, with a specific focus on how housing insecurity, hunger, and health issues may delay or prevent academic success. “We're not just focused on what's ... Read More
Center for Innovation in STEM Education Receives $13 Million in Federal Funding
It was a September to remember for the Center for Innovation in STEM Education (CISE) at California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH), thanks to the announcement of three U.S. Department of Education (DOE) grants totaling $13 million. "We compete with hundreds of universities and organizations for each of our grants,” said CISE Director and Annenberg Endowed Professor Kamal Hamdan. “Considering the competition, it is very rewarding and exciting to learn that one or more of our proposals were selected for funding.” A New STAR on Campus On Sept. 26, Hamdan received word that the DOE had awarded CISE a five-year, $7 million grant through the Teacher Quality Partnership Grant ... Read More
5th Annual South Bay Economic Forecast Oct. 29
(Carson, CA) From creating cells that help the immune system fight cancer, to launching rockets into space from in-flight 747s, to the effects of an economic recession on the local economy, California State University, Dominguez Hills' (CSUDH) 2019-20 South Bay Economic Forecast conference on Oct. 29 will provide a look at what some of the region's most innovative companies are doing, as well as the economic trends for the next year. The South Bay Economic Forecast will take place Tuesday, Oct. 29, from 3 to 5:30 p.m. in the Loker Student Union Grand Ballroom The conference will be immediately followed by a wine and craft beer tasting reception featuring South Bay breweries. To register and ... Read More
John Price Receives Fifth DOE Grant to Continue Proton Research
John Price, professor of physics and interim dean of graduate studies and research at California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH), conducts original research in nuclear physics with his students, and their success has kept the funding coming in. Price recently received a three-year, $300,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to expand “Nuclear Physics with Short-Lived Beams,” his ongoing experimental nuclear physics program in proton research. This is the fifth grant the DOE has awarded Price for the program since 2007. The funding covers research costs for Price and his students, including travel to the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility in ... Read More
