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CSUDH Awarded $2.9 Million NSF Grant to Create a Master Teacher Fellows Program

June 2, 2020

(Carson, CA) – The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded the California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) Foundation a grant of more than $2.9 million to create a Master Teacher Fellows program, with the goal of developing exemplary teacher-leaders in science and mathematics for high-need K-12 schools. The Master Teacher Fellows (MTF) program is a partnership between CSUDH, Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) – Local District South, and the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. The six-year grant was awarded through the NSF’s Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program. The MTF’s goals are to increase participants’ content knowledge and pedagogical and ... Read More

Virtual Graduation Celebration Honors Toro Class of 2020

May 19, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic may have postponed commencement ceremonies for the Class of 2020, but California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) still found a way to celebrate its graduates with a week-long Virtual Graduation Celebration. Given the task of quickly creating a series of online and virtual events to celebrate Toro grads, several departments teamed up and got to work. The effort was led by the CSUDH Office of Ceremonies and Events, with staff from the Office of Student Life (OSL), communications, alumni, the Academic Affairs Division, and DHTV all pitching in. “None of us had ever done anything like this before,” says Marilyn McPoland, director of Ceremonies and ... Read More

Class of 2020 Shares Fond Memories, Aspirations, and Collective Apprehension

May 12, 2020

Class of 2020

California State University, Dominguez Hills’ Class of 2020 has a lot to offer. The students featured below are a small sample of the 4,633 graduates who will become the next generation of nurses, business professionals, researchers, artists, and leaders. Each graduate shared one of their favorite faculty mentors, a few memorable experiences since joining the Toro Nation, and some trepidation about an uncertain future. Sahara Vilchis, B.S., Anthropology/Biological Concentration, Minor in Geography Sahara Vilchis is a McNair Scholar who serves as president of the Anthropology Club, works on campus as a writing/content tutor in the Toro Learning and Testing Center, and is a volunteer in ... Read More

Daily Breeze: “CSU Dominguez Hills Students have Created 1,500 Face Shields to Protect Against Coronavirus”

April 13, 2020

Source: Daily Breeze Cal State Dominguez Hills had an empty campus, vacant labs and plenty of students who were laid off because of the coronavirus pandemic. So Dr. Kamal Hamdan, the university’s Director for the Center for Innovation in STEM Education, had an idea. Why not put some of those students and the unused lab equipment to work to create face shields for health care providers? “I kept hearing there was a huge need for face shields,” he said Saturday, April 11. “So I thought, ‘We have a great workforce in our students, and we have the best technology. Why can’t we repurpose that?’” So, for the past two weeks, Hamdan and about 25 students have been at work — first to ... Read More

Faculty, Students, and Staff Heed the Call for Medical Face Shields

April 8, 2020

Heeding the call of health care professionals, two faculty-led groups at California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) are using 3D printing to help supply local hospitals with the face shields they need to reduce the risk of infection on the frontlines of the pandemic. Taking on the challenge are Paul Penoliar, lecturer and clinical instructor in the Master of Science in Occupational Therapy (OT) Department, and Kamal Hamdan, Annenberg-endowed professor and director of the Center for Innovation in STEM Education (CISE) at CSUDH. Resourceful and Nimble In mid-March, CSUDH converted all in-person instruction to online classes to help prevent the spread of COVID-19. This ... Read More

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