Highlighting their exemplary leadership, commitment to inclusion and student support, and the impact they have had on the campus community, California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) honored five students with the Presidential Award for Outstanding Student during the 2019 President's Student Leadership and Service Awards Ceremony on May 7. The annual event also celebrates and showcases co-curricular experiences through student organizations, and recognizes outstanding faculty and staff who support them. The university is home to 115 student organizations with more than 2,300 students involved in various clubs. Presidential Award for Outstanding Student Alejandro Campos, ... Read More
Misreading the Story of Climate Change and the Maya
By Kenneth Seligson, California State University, Dominguez Hills (THE CONVERSATION) Carbon dioxide concentrations in Earth's atmosphere have reached 415 parts per million - a level that last occurred more than three million years ago, long before the evolution of humans. This news adds to growing concern that climate change will likely wreak serious damage on our planet in the coming decades. While Earth has not been this warm in human history, we can learn about coping with climate change by looking to the Classic Maya civilization that thrived between A.D. 250-950 in Eastern Mesoamerica, the region that is now Guatemala, Belize, Eastern Mexico, and parts of El Salvador and ... Read More
Seven Interdisciplinary Studies Students and Co-Workers Graduate Together
Already busy with full-time jobs and family obligations, seven co-workers with the Los Angeles County Department of Public Social Services (DPSS) enrolled together in California State University, Dominguez Hills' (CSUDH) Interdisciplinary Studies (IDS) program in fall 2017, adding a full schedule of college courses to their hectic lives. Yet, they finished early, and graduated this spring with their bachelor's degrees in IDS. On May 18, they celebrated together at CSUDH's 2019 Commencement Ceremony. Rosie Desales, Gisela Bedolla, Heather Mitchell, Cynthia Uballe, Gina Plascencia, Grace Estrada, and Celina Morales were conferred IDS degrees with an emphasis in comparative cultures. Grace ... Read More
CSUDH Co-Partners with So Cal Edison on $20 Million Clean Energy Pilot
(Carson, CA) - California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) has been selected as one of two California State University (CSU) campuses in a new Clean Energy Optimization Pilot in partnership between Southern California Edison (SCE) and the CSU and University of California (UC) systems. On April 25, the California Public Utilities Commission approved the four-year, $20 million pilot program that gives financial incentives to the CSU and UC to identify and apply sustainable actions to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. CSUDH and California State Polytechnic University, Pomona will join five UC campuses and medical centers on the performance-based GHG reduction program. “This ... Read More
‘Unfinished Proof Ninomiya’ Chronicles Three Generations of Japanese Americans in Los Angeles
(Carson, CA) - The University Art Gallery at California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) presents “Unfinished Proof Ninomiya,” a collection of images that represent a year's worth of research by Los Angeles artist Alan Nakagawa of the vast Ninomiya Photography Studio Collection at CSUDH. The exhibit runs in the University Art Gallery from May 8 to Sept 18, Monday-Thursday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and by appointment only. Admission is free. “Unfinished Proof Ninomiya” is the culmination of Nakagawa's residency with CSUDH's PRAXIS Studio combing through more than 100,000 prints and negatives in Ninomiya Photo Studio Archive, which was donated for preservation to CSUDH's Donald R. ... Read More
