As the spread of COVID-19 accelerated during the early stages of the pandemic in the U.S., assistant professor of art and design Devon Tsuno became increasingly worried about his wife, Rieko Takamatsu, a nurse treating patients in a Los Angeles hospital that had begun rationing its short supply of personal protective equipment (PPE). Tsuno wanted to do something to help his wife but wasn’t sure what. In a conversation with Cypress College art professor Ed Giardina on how two artists could have an impact, they decided to create and 3D-print their own medical face shields. They suspected others would be willing to help and began reaching out to friends and colleagues, primarily within the ... Read More
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Anne Garrett Honored with Catherine H. Jacobs Outstanding Faculty Lecturer Award
For Anne Garrett, there is one skill that college graduates simply can not do without. “No matter what career someone goes into, it's important that they be able to write competently,” she says. That's why the former composition professor in the interdisciplinary studies program at California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) devoted her career to developing those skills in her students. “Working on writing can be a vulnerable and delicate issue, but I've been continually amazed by my students' receptivity. I feel my greatest strength is my ability to get through to students, which is drawn from my sensitivity to their backgrounds and needs.” Garrett, who retired at the ... Read More
From Monsters to Romance, Outstanding Professor Award Winner Debra Best Brings Literature to Life
Whether it is medieval romance or monsters, Professor of English Debra Best has an uncanny ability to find just the right stories and plays to successfully integrate students intellectually and artistically into the study of challenging literature. Best specializes in medieval literature and Shakespeare, and creatively incorporates high-impact teaching into her literature and composition courses, including student research, group and performance projects, and imaginative assignments. Her teaching style has turned her students into fixtures at conferences, in the pages of academic journals, and at CSUDH’s Student Research Day awards ceremonies. This ability to bring student learning to ... Read More
Cultivating Crops and Eager Minds Earns Jenney Hall the Excellence in Service Award
Since she arrived at California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) in 2016, lecturer of environmental studies Jenney Hall has wasted little time developing new ways to teach students how to study and protect the environment, and how to grow nourishing crops for themselves and food insecure people. Hall quickly became well liked and respected among her students and colleagues in CSUDH’s Interdisciplinary Studies Department (IDS) for her teaching of introductory and advanced courses in environmental studies, and for developing curriculum for face-to-face online and hybrid courses. In 2018, she brought agriculture to campus when she co-founded the Urban Farm to teach the health and ... Read More
Respect and Admiration Earn Vivian Price the 2020 Faculty Excellence Award
Vivian Price is respected by her peers and admired by her students, many of whom have become active partners in her creative work and causes, from filmmaking and research around equity, race, and gender, to environmental racism and climate change. Price is a professor of interdisciplinary studies and coordinator of the Labor Studies program at California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH). She has earned the 2020 Excellence in Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity Award. The award acknowledges research, scholarship and creative activities that are essential components of the university’s mission. The honor also recognizes professional activities that provide intellectual ... Read More
