A decade ago, Associate Professor of Finance Rama Malladi decided to make a change, leaving a successful career as a financial analyst and consultant for global corporations to teach the next generation of business leaders. He traces his decision to his upbringing, says Malladi. “My father was a school principal for more than 35 years, so I grew up in a teaching environment. When I was younger, though, that was the last area I wanted to be in. Rather than pursue the teaching path, I went into industry.” For more than 20 years, Malladi worked or consulted for major companies and start-ups in the financial, health care, technology, telecommunication, and transportation industries. Having ... Read More
Awards
Kimberly Huth Wins 2022 Outstanding Professor Award
Kimberly Huth, associate professor of English, has taught many courses during her time at CSUDH, but no matter if she's teaching a first-year composition or one on Renaissance tragedy, Huth strives to bring her students from a surface understanding to the very core of the subject. Specializing in Renaissance literature, Shakespeare, poetry, drama, and critical theory, Huth incorporates a wide range of materials into her curriculum in order to help her students delve into the subject matter–from films and historical documents to marriage advice manuals and histories of the colonies in the new world. Huth's dedication to her students' learning experience, active literary criticism ... Read More
Mary Lacanlale Wins 2022 Excellence in Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity Award
In 2021, Assistant Professor of Asian-Pacific Studies Mary Talusan Lacanlale saw two long-term projects that examine Philippine history through a musical lens come to fruition. Her book Instruments of Empire: Filipino Musicians, Black Soldiers, and Military Band Music during U.S. Colonization of the Philippines was published in August. That same month also saw the release of a CD she co-produced for Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, Kulintang Kultura: Danongan Kalanduyan & Gong Music of the Philippine Diaspora. In recognition of Lacanlale's scholarship and creative projects, she is receiving the 2022 Excellence in Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity Award. The award ... Read More
CSUDH Biology Professor Recognized for Research
CSUDH Associate Professor of Biology Sonal Singhal has been honored by the Society for the Study of Evolution (SSE) for her research work on lizard speciation. Her paper “Strong Selection Against Hybrids Maintains a Narrow Contact Zone Between Morphologically Cryptic Lineages in a Rainforest Lizard” was named one of the 25 top works in speciation research by women authors by Evolution, SSE's prestigious international journal. Singhal co-authored the paper in 2011 with Craig Moritz, who at the time was director of the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at the University of California, Berkeley. Singhal's research focused on a pair of lizard species living in a “hybrid zone” of the Australian ... Read More
CSUDH Bulletin Takes Honors at College Journalism Awards
By Gabriel Gomez, Bulletin Staff Reporter CSUDH's student newspaper, the Bulletin, has won six California College Media Association (CCMA) 2022 Excellence in Student Media Awards. The awards were announced at the Associated Collegiate Press Spring National College Media Conference at the Hyatt Regency in Long Beach, with students representing journalism schools from across the nation in attendance. Three CSUDH seniors and three alumni were presented with first, second, and third place awards at the ceremony. Bulletin reporters Raven Brown, Brenda Fernanda Verano, Nova Blanco-Rico, Jasmine Nguyen, Darlene Maes, Daniel Tom, and Jasmine Contreras were recognized for stories written ... Read More
