(Carson, CA) – The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has awarded California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies Patricia Kalayjian a three-year, $289,076 Scholarly Editions and Translations grant to co-create a digital edition of the complete letters of 19th Century American novelist Catharine Maria Sedgwick. Work on the digitization project will begin in January 2020. Titled “Catharine Maria Sedgwick Online Letters,” the digitization project will be led by Kalayjian with the support of co-project directors Lucinda Damon-Bach, professor of English at Salem State University in Massachusetts, and Deborah Gussman, professor of American ... Read More
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Theatre and Dance Presents David Lindsay-Abaire’s Comedy ‘Fuddy Meers’
(Carson, Calif.) California State University, Dominguez Hills’ (CSUDH) Department of Theatre and Dance presents playwright David Lindsay-Abaire’s “Fuddy Meers,” referred to by the New York Times as a “poignant yet brutal comedy that traces one woman’s attempt to regain her memory while surrounded by alarming and bizarre characters.” The play will run Nov. 8, 9, 13-16 at 8 p.m., and Nov. 10, 15-17 at 2 p.m. in CSUDH’s Edison Theatre. Claire, the protagonist in “Fuddy Meers,” has a rare form of psychogenic amnesia that erases her memory whenever she goes to sleep. There is her chipper husband, her pot smoking son, her mother – a recent stroke victim whose speech has been compromised, and a ... Read More
CSUDH Computer/Math Major Offered Two Aerospace Jobs at STEM Conference
Thar Soe may still have a semester to go before earning undergraduate degrees in both computer science and mathematics from California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH), but he already has been offered jobs from two major aerospace companies. Soe received the job offers while attending the 31st Annual Great Minds in STEM (GMIS) Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Awards Conference (HENAAC) on Sept. 25-29 in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. The conference offers thousands of students from across the United States a chance to access cutting-edge technologies, participate in professional development competitions, explore internships and graduate schools, and the opportunity to interview ... Read More
Poverty Rates are Pretty Low, but So Are Poverty Lines
Highlights from the recent poverty report, Income and Poverty in the United States: 2018, at .census.gov/library/publications/2019/demo/p60-266.html. 1. The 2018 poverty rate--the percentage of the population under federal poverty lines--was 11.8%. Since 1959, the rate has been under 12 eleven times: seven times in the 1970s; three at the end of the Clinton-Greenspan boom (1999-2001); and then only once more, in 2018. 2. Of course, poverty rates are much higher for some social groups. The black rate in 2018 was 20.7%, the Hispanic rate 17.6%. Even after a decade-long economic recovery, one in five black Americans and almost the same fraction of Hispanics were poor. 3. Since they ... Read More
University Art Gallery Exhibits ‘Legend and Legacy: José Guadalupe Posada and Contemporary Latinx Art’
(Carson, CA) – “Legend and Legacy: José Guadalupe Posada and Contemporary Latinx Art,” a multimedia exhibition tracing the influence of Mexican illustrator José Guadalupe Posada on contemporary Latinx artists, will run Oct. 7–Dec. 13, Monday–Thursday, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and by appointment at the University Art Gallery at California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH). The public opening reception for the exhibition takes place Saturday, Oct. 5 from 3 to 6 p.m. The exhibit is FREE and open to the public. Known for his animated skeleton figures—or calaveras—used in annual Day of the Dead observances, Posada chronicled and satirized his society in street art that appealed to the ... Read More
