Dr. Kimberly Bohman-Kalaja, associate professor of literature in the Humanities External Master of Arts (HUX) program at California State University, Dominguez Hills, has been named a Fulbright Scholar for 2010-2011. “I feel incredibly lucky and truly grateful,” she said of being selected for the prestigious program. Bohman-Kalaja will spend the spring 2011 semester—from February to August—at the University of Tirana in Tirana, Albania, where she will be lecturing and conducting research on the way in which Albania’s writers are shaping the nation’s identity. “I am interested in the way in which writers and poets see themselves in relation to their national identity,” said ... Read More
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Honda Donation Helps CSU Dominguez Hills Offer College Science Courses to CAMS High School Students
(Carson, CA) – American Honda Motor Co., Inc. has donated $100,000 to California State University, Dominguez Hills to create an endowment fund that will support the university’s Science Opportunity Program, which provides college-level science courses to students of the California Academy of Math and Science high school located on the campus. Honda’s contribution ensures the program can continue to provide textbooks and course materials to the CAMS students free of charge. In honor of that support, the program will now be called the American Honda Science Opportunity Program (AHSOP). “The American Honda Science Opportunity Program will help CAMS students realize their dreams of ... Read More
Andrew J. Leist: Alumnus Uses Digital Media Arts Skills in Medical Field
There’s an art to surgery, and while surgeons orchestrate and perform, technicians in the operating room also make important contributions. California State University, Dominguez Hills alumnus Andrew J. Leist is one such technician, bringing his digital media arts skills to the medical field. After receiving his bachelor’s degree in digital media arts in 2008 and while continuing to work in the music industry, Leist landed a job as an audio/visual technician at USC University Hospital Department of Surgery in Los Angeles, where he manages media technology used by surgeons performing endoscopic procedures. “It’s fascinating. Before I started [working at USC University Hospital], I ... Read More
Daniel Cano: Alumnus Wins International Latino Book Award
According to Daniel Cano (Class of ’77, B.A., English; ’84, M.A., Spanish), all one needed to make it as a journalist in 1920s Los Angeles was the ability to read and write, and a good mentor. In Cano’s case, all that was needed to become an award-winning novelist was his desire to become a writer and his education at California State University, Dominguez Hills and Santa Monica College (SMC), where he now teaches literature, composition, and creative writing. This fall, Cano received the 12th International Latino Book Award for historical fiction with his third book, “Death and the American Dream.” The Los Angeles native says that the protagonist of his 1991 “Pepe Rios,” which was ... Read More
Science Students Represent CSU Dominguez Hills at ABRCMS National Conference
Students from several science cohorts at California State University, Dominguez Hills attended the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS), which was held in Charlotte, N.C. last month. Four students presented their research at ABRCMS, with Kristie Gordon taking home a certificate of achievement for her presentation on “Sex-drugs and HIV: How Substances Became Associated with Sex among African American and Latino Young Men Who Have Sex with Men.” A senior majoring in sociology, Gordon was mentored by Dr. Matt Mutchler, associate professor of sociology, interim director, Urban Community Research Center at CSU Dominguez Hills, and director of community-based ... Read More
