To strengthen the university's connections with local religious leaders and faith-based organizations, President Willie J. Hagan highlighted the benefits of a California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) education during the Hosannna Broadcasting Network's (HBN) 8th Annual Breakfast with the Clergy on June 27. Hosted on campus for the first time by HBN in association with CSUDH, the breakfast brought together church leaders from throughout the state and members of their congregations to recognize and award clergy for their achievements, as well as to enjoy good food and music and listen to guest speakers, such as keynote speaker Apostle Beverly Crawford, and Tersit Asrat, HBN's ... Read More
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CSUDH honored with sustainability best practices award for LED lighting system
California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) will be honored with the 2015 California Higher Education Energy Efficiency and Sustainability Best Practices Award for its new LED outdoor ceiling lighting system during the California Higher Education Sustainability Conference (CHESC). Hosted by San Francisco State University on July 20-24, a total of nine California State University (CSU) campuses will receive the coveted sustainability awards in 12 categories at the conference. CSUDH will receive an award in the “Lighting Design/Retrofit” category for a creative solution it came up with to improve the lighting in a challenging ceiling design that is found in a number of its ... Read More
CSUDH Receives National Parks Service Grant to Lead Digitization of Japanese American Internment Documents
The National Park Service has awarded a two-year $321,554 grant to California State University, Dominguez Hills' (CSUDH) Archives and Special Collections to serve as principal investigator on a collaborative project between archives at 15 CSU campuses to digitize nearly 10,000 documents and more than 100 oral histories related to the confinement of Japanese Americans during World War II. The CSU Japanese American Digitization Project will make these materials available on a CSU-sponsored website and also result in a teaching guide and traveling exhibit for schools and the public. “It is heartening to have the National Park Service acknowledge the scale and importance of the CSU's ... Read More
Summer Steinway by Starlight concert transports audience to bygone era
Visibly moved by the beat as they bobbed their heads and tapped their toes, audience members were transported back to the jazz age during California State University, Dominguez Hills' (CSUDH) Steinway by Starlight concert held on June 11 in the University Theatre. The second such concert in the past year, Steinway by Starlight is a direct result of CSUDH being an All-Steinway School. Wishing to replace its aging inventory of practice and performance pianos and raise the profile of its music program, the CSUDH Department of Music purchased 21 Steinway instruments in 2014 and sought the prestigious designation by Steinway & Sons. As an All-Steinway School, CSUDH is able to invite world ... Read More
Geography Students Awarded for Coyote Tracking Project
A spring 2015 internship for credit was a walk in the park, or a nature reserve, for California State University, Dominguez Hills students Alex Lepicier and J.J. Baraja, whose findings on those walks turned into a research project that won them a monetary award at the Southern California Academy of Sciences annual meeting in May. As volunteers for the Palos Verdes Peninsula Land Conservancy Citizen Science Wildlife Tracking Team, the students were trained and assigned a hiking trail that they monitored weekly for animal tracks and scat. They would photograph, examine and report back what they found to the conversancy's steward associate in research, Ann Dalkey, who ran the program. “Alex ... Read More
