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
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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
CSUDH is ‘Ripe for Growth, Change, and Transformation’
During the opening of his 2019 Fall Convocation address on Sept. 18, President Thomas A. Parham described California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) as “ripe for growth, change, and transformation,” and he offered ways to make the most of it to enrich students’ lives. “We are at a unique and especially rare point in time for this university,” he said. “All of the factors are aligning in our universe to support our vision of possibility and potential. We just need to step outside of our daily grind to see what I believe is right before our eyes.” The president set the stage for his remarks with an update of the current major construction projects in progress on campus. This ... Read More
CSUDH Ranks Well in U.S. News & World Report
(Carson, CA) U.S. News and World Report has ranked California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) in three of its college ranking lists: “Regional Universities West,” “Best Undergraduate Teaching,” and “Top Performers on Social Mobility.” U.S. News and World Report’s annual rankings are among the most anticipated in higher education. The publication’s methodology groups institutions into 10 different ranking categories based on their academic missions. Overall, CSUDH’s placed 72nd in “Regional Universities West,” the category in which all of CSUDH’s rankings appear. The regional categories are split into four zones: North, South, Midwest, and West, and rank universities in each ... Read More
Cornel West Talks ‘Race Matters’ during Dymally Distinguished Speaker Series
Cornel West, the prominent author, professor, and provocative public intellectual, addressed hundreds of fans, friends, and admirers on Sept. 27 as the featured speaker during the Dymally Distinguished Speaker Series. The series is hosted each semester by California State University, Dominguez Hills' (CSUDH) Mervyn M. Dymally African American Political & Economic Institute. With the theme "Rise of Racism in America: Revisiting ‘Race Matters,’” West's address broadly centered on his book “Race Matters,” which was published in 1993, a year after the L.A. riots. It features a collection of West’s essays on race in America, which remain relevant today. View the Cornel West address in its ... Read More
