Academic excellence, extraordinary perseverance and outstanding service to the community–these are just a few ways to describe the students, faculty and staff honored at the fourth annual President's Student Leadership and Service Awards at California State University, Dominguez Hills on April 29. In front of a packed Loker Student Union ballroom with more than 200 students, faculty, staff and family members, 159 nominees were celebrated for their work in enhancing the lives of people both on and off campus and in their local communities. “We have many challenges on this campus, but we have people willing to take them on,” said University President Willie J. Hagan, adding that we could ... Read More
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Want to Share Your Produce? CSUDH Student Combines Entrepreneurship, Sustainability
Have you ever wanted to live life more simply, maybe in a community where everyone grew their own produce in an organic garden, and then share and trade it with their neighbors, all while living in homes powered entirely by naturally derived energy sources? Though it might sound impossible to achieve in our current society, it could soon be a reality according to California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) student Brittney Ford. Along with a team of colleagues, Ford presented her version of a small community agricultural living quarters, called the Eco Comfortable Project, at the Inaugural Community Engagement Symposium on April 28 to a ballroom full of students, faculty and ... Read More
Inaugural Day of Service: CSUDH Making a Difference in Our Communities
Students, faculty, staff, friends and neighbors came together in a massive effort to beautify their surrounding communities during California State University, Dominguez Hills' (CSUDH) first-ever Day of Service. To kick off the week leading up to the inauguration of the university's 10th president, Dr. Willie J. Hagan, nearly 250 volunteers lent their time and skills on April 26 helping to beautify a local historical landmark and areas both on and off campus, install an ocean-friendly community garden, and help rebuild areas of Long Beach. “The Day of Service represents what's best about this institution,” said President Hagan during his opening remarks on campus. “We're all in ... Read More
University to Lead NEH-Funded Archives Project to Digitize Japanese American Internment Documents
The California State University, Dominguez Hills Archives and Special Collections Department, in collaboration with archives divisions at CSU Fresno, San Jose State, CSU Northridge, CSU Fullerton and CSU Sacramento, has been awarded a $40,000 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant to plan the digitization and creation of a website for collections relating to Japanese Americans' incarceration during World War II. “We are thrilled that NEH has recognized this project, especially since the topic is still of great interest to scholars and the Japanese American community in California and elsewhere,” said Greg Williams, principal investigator for the grant and director of Archives ... Read More
Research Students Attend American Chemical Society Undergraduate Research Conference
California State University, Dominguez Hills was well-represented at the 32nd Annual Southern California Undergraduate Research Conference in Chemistry and Biochemistry (SCURCCB), hosted by Concordia University in Irvine, on April 12. A conference of the Southern California Section of the American Chemical Society, SCURCCB gives undergraduate students in chemical sciences at universities in the southern California region an opportunity to not only present their own research, but sit in on posters and talks of their peers. Barbara Belmont, a lecturer in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, required her research students to at this conference and later suggested it to other ... Read More