The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) Professor of Sociology Matt G. Mutchler a three-year $656,000 grant to create a support program that addresses the disproportionate rate of new HIV infections among young African American men, and help improve their overall health and well-being. Mutchler and a team of investigators, including student and community health educators, are working with a community advisory board and participants to develop, pilot, and evaluate “PrEP-Talk,” an innovative intervention support program for young gay African American men and their close friends who use or would benefit from the preventative ... Read More
Tommy Irvine Jazz Collection in CSUDH’s Gerth Archives and Special Collections
The Tommy Irvine Jazz Collection, an eclectic assortment of rare jazz albums, featuring some of the genre's greatest artists and recordings, has been placed on loan in the Donald R. and Beverly J. Gerth Archives and Special Collections at California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH). The collection was provided to CSUDH by the Irvine family in December 2018. It features 444 records in 76 albums, including such legendary jazz musicians as George Shearing, Nat King Cole, Erroll Garner, Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan, and Lester Young. Irvine, who passed away in March 2018, began amassing his extensive jazz collection at the age of 14. KJLH DJ Roy Loggins once said, "Tommy's ... Read More
New App Helps Students Navigate College More Efficiently
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Faculty Highlights: June 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. College of Health and Human Services Paymam Nasr, assistant professor of clinical laboratory studies, has been honored with the American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science's 2019 ASCLS Scientific Research award for his article “Genotypic and phenotypic variations in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates from outpatient, inpatient, and nursing homes,” which was published in the 2019 Journal of Medical Microbiology. ... Read More
CSUDH is New Home of Extensive Archival Library on Labor History
(Carson, CA) - The California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) Gerth Archives and Special Collections has acquired the vast Holt Labor Library - along with a donation of $200,000 to catalog and maintain the artifacts from the library's founder, Apple Inc.'s fifth employee, Rod Holt. The collection is the largest archival donation in the university's history and chronicles the history of the struggle to organize trade unions, the rise of anti-war and political movements, and the fight for civil rights and to protect the environment. “The Holt collection is a fantastic expression of 20th century dissent, as well as the labor movement in the U.S., and includes a whole host of ... Read More
