It was a September to remember for the Center for Innovation in STEM Education (CISE) at California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH), thanks to the announcement of three U.S. Department of Education (DOE) grants totaling $13 million. "We compete with hundreds of universities and organizations for each of our grants,” said CISE Director and Annenberg Endowed Professor Kamal Hamdan. “Considering the competition, it is very rewarding and exciting to learn that one or more of our proposals were selected for funding.” A New STAR on Campus On Sept. 26, Hamdan received word that the DOE had awarded CISE a five-year, $7 million grant through the Teacher Quality Partnership Grant ... Read More
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John Price Receives Fifth DOE Grant to Continue Proton Research
John Price, professor of physics and interim dean of graduate studies and research at California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH), conducts original research in nuclear physics with his students, and their success has kept the funding coming in. Price recently received a three-year, $300,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to expand “Nuclear Physics with Short-Lived Beams,” his ongoing experimental nuclear physics program in proton research. This is the fifth grant the DOE has awarded Price for the program since 2007. The funding covers research costs for Price and his students, including travel to the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility in ... 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
Terry McGlynn Co-Authors New Study on the Effects of Temperature on Urban Biodiversity
(Carson, CA) – Terry McGlynn, professor of biology and director of undergraduate research at California State University, Dominguez Hills’ (CSUDH), has co-authored a new study published in the prestigious journal, Proceedings of the Royal Society B. The study examines the effects of temperature on urban biodiversity. Los Angeles faces rising temperatures and a drier climate with global climate change. As climate change continues, it is crucial to keep track of biodiversity in urban areas. Insects are sensitive to temperature and are integral to urban ecosystems. Urban insects, such as phorid flies, which are the specialty of the Entomology Department at the Natural History Museum of Los ... Read More
Faculty Highlights: September 2019
Our faculty members participate in conferences around the world, conduct groundbreaking research, and publish books and journal papers that contribute to their field and highlight their expertise. We feature those accomplishments and more in this section. College of Arts and Humanities Corina Benavides-Lopez, assistant professor of Chicana and Chicano Studies, delivered the keynote address on Sept. 12 at “Si a la Exelencia Academica!: Celebrating the Cultural Wealth of Familial Resistance in Turbulent Times." Cal Poly Pomona’s Hilda Solis Scholarship Dinner and Reception. Salim Faraji, professor of Africana Studies, presented his paper ... Read More
