California State University, Dominguez Hills is among the nation's top degree grantors to minority students, according to the magazine Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, which each year publishes its Top 100 Undergraduate Degree Producers and Top 100 Graduate Degree Producers lists. Overall, CSU Dominguez Hills came in at 60th for granting bachelor's degrees to 1,406 students of color in 2011 – the graduation year used in the 2012 rankings – and 64th for conferring master's degrees to 492 students of color. That year, the university granted 3,005 degrees in total. Using data reported by universities to the National Center for Education Statistics to compile its two lists, the ... Read More
Faculty
Staff Lunch Serves up Smiles and Appreciation
About 450 of the nearly 600 full- and part-time staff members at California State University, Dominguez Hills came out from virtually every nook and cranny of the campus to enjoy a complimentary lunch in their honor on July 10. Although the line for food winded around the Loker Student Union Palm Courtyard, workers were having a great time taking a break from their duties, visiting with each other and enjoying some good eats. Donned in chef aprons, top administrators served up hamburgers, veggie burgers, hot dogs, sides, and all the fixin's. “We have a great staff and I was very pleased to have the opportunity to appreciate and thank them for all they do in making a difference in the ... Read More
Professor Ganezer Goes to Washington
Discovery. That, in large part, is what drives the human race forward. It's also what drives California State University, Dominguez Hills physics professor and cutting-edge researcher Kenneth Ganezer. Ganezer is also driven by the need to engage more students in science along with their faculty mentors, and as an officer of the California/Nevada section of the American Physical Society (APS), he traveled to Washington, D.C. and Greenbelt, Md. last semester to lobby for better funding for science as well as physics research and education to make that possible. Ganezer along with four other physicists from Sonoma State University, University of California, Davis, UC Santa Barbara, ... Read More
Faculty Highlights: June 2012
Our faculty members participate in conferences around the world, conduct groundbreaking research, and publish books and articles that expand their knowledge and expertise. Here are a few recent highlights. Gilah Yelin Hirsch, professor of art, presented “A Hypothesis on the Origin of Alphabet as Represented in the Art of Gilah Yelin Hirsch” at the Third Annual International Conference on Visual and Performing Arts of the Athens Institute for Education and Research, which took place June 4-7 in Athens, Greece. “Prejudice Awareness Through Cultural Self-Knowledge Development: Going Beyond the Contact Reduces Prejudice Hypothesis,” an article by Fumiko Hosokawa, professor of sociology, ... Read More
Federal Minority Biomedical Research Support Program at CSUDH Renewed
Kumar Tiger, a 21-year-old senior microbiology major, aspires to be biomedical scientist because he “saw the health disparities among people like me and my family and I was not satisfied with the solutions being provided.” He wants to play a part in finding solutions and proactively preventing sickness, and he says the experiences he has had through the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Minority Biomedical Research Support (MBRS) Research Initiative for Scientific Enhancement (RISE) program at California State University, Dominguez Hills will help him achieve his career goals. “MBRS RISE has taught me more than just laboratory techniques,” said Tiger who has worked on projects ... Read More