Special Olympics World Games Los Angeles 2015 has announced that the City of Carson will serve as a “Host Town” for a delegation of athletes and coaches from another country, and that California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) will provide them housing accommodations leading up to the games, which take place in Los Angeles July 25 - Aug. 2, 2015. The announcement came during a press conference on Oct. 27 in the courtyard at CSUDH's Student Housing complex. The event included remarks from Bill Shumard, president and CEO of Special Olympics Southern California, CSUDH Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Ellen Junn, Carson Mayor James Dear, and World Games athlete and ... Read More
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‘Crossing Borders’ Exhibition Explores Migration in Contemporary Art
“Crossing Borders: Stories of Migration in Contemporary Art,” a new exhibit in the California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) University Art Gallery, opened Oct. 22 to packed room of artists and enthusiasts who were treated to artistic examinations centered around the U.S.-Mexico border where migrants often find themselves at odds with cultural bias and political issues. The exhibit features paintings, prints, pencil drawings, photographs and sculptures shown through the eclectically creative minds of six artists: Los Angeles-based artists Ramiro Gomez, Nery Gabriel Lemus, Oscar Magallanes, Antonio Pelayo, Eric Almanza and San Jose pure-fiber artist Consuelo Jimenez ... Read More
CSU Dominguez Hills Archives Department Puts Historical Long Beach Fire Department Photos Online
Thousands of historical images depicting 70 years of the Long Beach Fire Department, beginning in 1898, are now accessible online through the California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) Department of Archives and Special Collections' website at http://digitalcollections.archives.csudh.edu. The 5,000 photos are part of a collection of more than 9,000 negatives and prints donated to CSUDH four years ago by the Long Beach Firemen's Historical Museum, the result of a Long Beach Naval Memorial Heritage Association grant to digitally preserve the images. After years of cataloging, the CSUDH archives department recently launched the web page to make digital images available to a ... Read More
Professor Needham Shines Light on Cambodian Shadow Puppetry
Despite its name, shadow puppetry glows from a spiritually whimsical manipulation of light; although there was a time when an unfathomable darkness nearly wiped the little-known art form out of existence. From 1976 to 1979, nearly 90 percent of the artists in Cambodia, where shadow puppetry was created in the early ninth century, were killed along with roughly 2 million others during the Cambodian Genocide carried out by the regime of the Khmer Rouge. Thirty-five years later, most Americans still know very little about Cambodia's culture, let alone shadow puppetry which even in Cambodia is relatively obscure and today, for the most part, only enjoyed by the affluent. Professor ... Read More
Faculty Highlights: October 2014
Our faculty members participate in conferences around the world, conduct groundbreaking research, and publish books and journal papers that contribute to their field and highlight their expertise. We feature those accomplishments and more in this section. College of Arts and Humanities Miguel Dominguez, professor of modern languages, presented “No problemo. The Other 'Spanglish': Hispanisms in U.S. English” at the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese's 2014 Conference on Portuguese and Hispanic Languages and Literature, which took place on Oct. 11 at Moreno Valley College. Exploring the use of words like el Niño, alligator, fritos, rodeo, gratis, and toros in the ... Read More