Higher learning was the furthest thing from Pamela Hernandez's mind when she was an adolescent and young adult struggling through a life fraught with danger and despair. Abused as a child, and addicted to drugs by her early teens, she eventually spiraled into a perilous existence in a junkyard, where an attacker nearly ended her life, before her unborn child would come to save it. Hernandez's mother and father divorced when she was six months old. The only sibling to be raised by her abusive, alcoholic father, she became the recipient of his physical and emotional assaults. By the time she was 18 years old, Hernandez was a parent herself, and she too became an addict; her daily focus was ... Read More
College of Health Human Services and Nursing
M. Gary Sayed Named Dean of College of Health, Human Services & Nursing
After a national search, California State University, Dominguez Hills has appointed M. Gary Sayed as the new dean of the College of Health, Human Services and Nursing effective Aug. 11. Sayed comes to CSU Dominguez Hills with 22 years of experience in higher education, including as dean of science and health at Charles Drew University of Medicine and Sciences and founding director of Charles Drew's biomedical sciences program, where he also was professor of biomedical physics. He has held positions as provost and senior vice president of academic affairs at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia, chairman and clinical professor of the diagnostic imaging department at Thomas ... Read More
Spring Break in Nicaragua: Students Offer Helping Hand in Hygiene Education
A group of California State University, Dominguez Hills students spent Spring Break 2014 in Managua, Nicaragua, gathering data about hygiene and working with the community to improve the health of families in the area. The three students– Temi Olagbemi, Reggie Withers and Courtney Zimmerman– are all enrolled in the CSU Dominguez Hills' Master's Entry-level Professional Nursing (MEPN) program, and they along with nursing students from San Diego State University and CSU San Marcos, were part of a nursing study aboard program organized by Fairfield University School of Nursing in conjunction with social work students at Universidad Centramericana (UCA). From March 28 to April 5, the students ... Read More
CSU Dominguez Hills Honors Faculty Excellence in Teaching, Research and Service
California State University, Dominguez Hills recognized five of its faculty for their excellence in the classroom, in scholarship and in service to their profession during the 2014 Faculty Awards reception on March 20 that also honored years of service milestones and the more than 200 faculty members who help reduce book costs to students through the Affordable Learning Solutions program. “Tonight is especially important to us as an institution because our campus wouldn't be here without these hard-working and high-quality faculty,” said Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Ellen Junn. “It is with great pleasure as your new provost that I be able to preside and recognize the ... Read More
Ninth Annual Student Research Day: A Rewarding Experience in Record Numbers
Record numbers marked the ninth annual California State University, Dominguez Hills Student Research Day (SRD) on Feb. 13. This year SRD featured the work of 316 students and 63 faculty mentors–a 70 percent increase in participation within the last three years alone. In its first year, in 2005, with 63 oral presentations and 11 posters, the on-campus conference, has nearly tripled in size with 180 total presentations this year, according to Laura Robles, emeritus professor of biology and acting associate vice president of Research and Funded Projects, who has been on every SRD planning committee since it was established. “It's really become something that is taking on a life of its ... Read More
