When children finish reading “Kupe and the Corals,” author Jacqueline L. Padilla-Gamiño, an assistant biology professor at California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH), hopes they understand that “we're all connected” to life in the ocean and that all living things “need to be careful with one another.” “Kupe and the Corals” (Taylor Trade Publishing, August 2014) is written for children 8 to 12 years old. It is the story of Kupe, a boy on a voyage to discover and learn about the coral reef in the coastal waters near his home in Tahiti and its connection to a host of sea animals. The book was funded by a $25,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) as part of its ... Read More
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[VIDEO] Teatro Dominguez: The Best Kept Secret at CSUDH
It might be uncommon to see second and third grade students volunteer to pick up trash, but that is exactly what has happened during California State University, Dominguez Hills' (CSUDH) Teatro Dominguez community-based theater troupe performances at local elementary schools this semester. When the college student actors– in character as a coyote, an aardvark, a sea cucumber and other sea, land and sky animals–ask the young audience for volunteers, the children nearly launch from their seats with excitement, eager to save the environment with a quick demonstration on how they can help keep Earth clean. This semester, students enrolled in THE339: Multicultural Children's Theatre are ... Read More
CSUDH Student Becomes Congressional Intern through Panetta Institute
Sean Rodriguez did much more than get a “peek behind closed doors” in the U.S. Capitol building while in Washington D.C. recently. He received the unique opportunity to sit in chairs that have been occupied by congressional leaders, Supreme Court justices and historic American figures. For two and a half months, Rodriguez, a Master of Arts double major in Negotiation, Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding/History and Political Science at California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH), lived and worked in the nation's capital as a recipient of the Panetta Institute for Public Policy's Congressional Internship. After an intensive two weeks of preparation at the nonpartisan study ... Read More
CSU Dominguez Hills Awarded $2.9 Millon Grant to Improve Academic Skills of Graduate Students
California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) has received a five-year $2.9 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education's (DOE) Title-V, Part B-PPOHA (Promoting Postbaccalaureate Opportunities for Hispanic Americans) program to launch the Graduate Writing Institute for Excellence (GWIE). The institute will advance the reading, writing and research skills of the university's graduate students through a comprehensive skills enhancement program, and seek to develop additional academic and professional partnerships that will help foster student success. Thirty-six percent of CSUDH's graduate student population is Hispanic. The DOE grant will enable the GWIE to advance academic ... Read More
Going Underground to Understand the Universe
By Laurie McLaughlin A half-mile underground, an enormous steel tank is filled with 50,000 tons of water surrounded by light-detecting devices. It serves partly as a giant target for cosmic particles–like protons, electrons, and neutrons–raining down on Earth from the sky. One type of particle, the neutrino, has been somewhat of a mystery to physicists until recent decades, but its activity helps explain how the sun and stars continue to shine. “We don't realize it, but trillions of neutrinos travel through our bodies every second,” said California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) professor of physics James Hill, who has been studying this very tiny phenomenon for more ... Read More