Approximately 1,500 women and a few men from throughout much of Southern California –who already are or are interested in becoming small business owners–gathered at the 2013 Connecting Women to Power Business Conference held at California State University, Dominguez Hills on June 28. The record crowd–with 800 people in the Loker Student Union and a spillover of more than 500 who viewed the keynote session via live video feed in the university theatre–was on hand to gain tips on topics ranging from developing a business plan to marketing and going green through the conference's various workshops and breakout sessions. The master of ceremonies, president and CEO of Korean Churches for ... Read More
Faculty
Robert Anderson: Sociology Alumnus Finds His Calling as a Teacher
Robert Armando Anderson, 44, thought analytically about the world around him even when he was a child, so much so that while growing up in Compton, his nickname was “Professor Bob.” As if fulfilling a prophecy, the California State University, Dominguez Hills alumnus (Class of '96, B.A., sociology/minor in public administration; '99, M.A., sociology) has enjoyed a 16-year career at Colin P. Kelly Elementary School in Compton, first teaching second grade and then fifth grade and, in between, serving for three years as a curriculum specialist resource teacher, training new teachers and coordinating testing programs. He also teaches evening and weekend sociology and general education courses ... Read More
$249K National Science Foundation Grant to Send Students to Australia to Study Climate Change
California State University, Dominguez Hills associate professor of biology Terry McGlynn has been awarded a three-year $249,922 National Science Foundation (NSF) International Research Experiences for Students (IRES) grant to establish the Fire, Carbon, and Climate Change in Australia program. The IRES grant will fully fund the opportunity for 12 undergraduate and graduate science majors at CSU Dominguez Hills to conduct climate change science research in collaboration with the CSIRO Tropical Ecosystems Research Centre (TERC) in the Northern Territory of Australia. The first group of four students will leave in January 2014, with subsequent four-student cohorts going in 2015 and ... Read More
CSUDH Students, Faculty Aid in Release of Endangered Palos Verdes Blue Butterfly
This spring, as part of a multi-organizational collaboration with the Palos Verdes Peninsula Land Conservancy to bring back the Palos Verdes blue butterfly from the brink of extinction, California State University, Dominguez Hills earth science students and faculty participated in the release of hundreds of the propagated animals back into the wild at the Linden H. Chandler Reserve, a 28.5-acre property located in Rolling Hills Estates. “I was really excited that I was able to join everybody and release some of the butterflies. It was just a spectacular event and they are absolutely beautiful insects. I'm glad I was a part of that,” said Jenny Greer, who graduated from CSU Dominguez ... Read More
Campus Hosts CSU “Journey to Success” College Fair For Asian, Pacific Islander Community
Approximately 500 Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) parents and their sixth through 12th grade-age children from Los Angeles and Orange County participated in the “Journey to Success” college fair held at the California State University, Dominguez Hills campus on June 1. Journey to Success is a component of the CSU's AAPI Initiative, one of the first in the country with the goal of improving college access and graduation achievements among underserved students within the AAPI community. The initiative–targeting California's Samoan, Tongan, Marshallese, Hawaiian, Cambodian, Hmong, Laotian, Fijian and underserved Chinese, Vietnamese and Filipino communities–is among a number of ... Read More