Employees at California State University, Dominguez Hills who live in the Inland Empire aren't worried about the rising costs of gas, wear and tear on their vehicles, or the stress of a long commute to work. Since January, eight residents of cities as far from campus as Moreno Valley, Chino Hills, and Beaumont have been sharing the ride with the university's Employee Vanpooling Program. “CSU Dominguez Hills employees can spend hundreds of dollars on gas each month traveling to and from work,” says Cynthia Jones-Hunter, employee transportation specialist, Transportation Services. “By participating in the Employee Vanpooling Program, employees can save significant money on gas, reduce wear ... Read More
Faculty
University Partners with Historic Adobe Museum for NEH Teacher Workshops
Eighty elementary and high school teachers from across the United States spent a week in June at California State University, Dominguez Hills and the nearby Dominguez Rancho Adobe Museum (DRAM) learning about the people and cultures that shaped the Los Angeles region in order to enhance their teaching of American history in the classroom. Organized by the history department and the Office of Service Learning, Internships and Civic Engagement (SLICE), in partnership with DRAM, “American History through the Eyes of a California Family, 1780s-1920s” workshops were funded by a “We the People” grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). Talks and activities were focused on ... Read More
Faculty Highlights: July 2011
Our faculty members participate in conferences around the world, conduct groundbreaking research, and publish books and articles that expand their knowledge and expertise to share with our students. Here are a few recent highlights from CSU Dominguez Hills faculty. Computer Science department faculty Mohsen Beheshti, professor and department chair, Jianchao Han, associate professor and graduate program coordinator, Kazimierz Kowalski, professor, and lecturer Nathan Nikotan presented at the 2011 International Conference on Information Technology: Next Generation in April 2011. Beheshti, Han, and Kowalski co-presented their paper “An Event-Driven Interactive Model of Information Resource ... Read More
In Memoriam: James Susumu Imai (1939-2011)
Emeritus professor of physics James Susumu Imai died on July 8 of heart failure. He joined the physics faculty at California State University, Dominguez Hills in 1970 and taught classes in physical science, physics within clinical science lab applications, and solid state physics until retiring in 2005. Imai's students remember him best as a humorous, but thorough instructor. Daniel Gutierrez (Class of '86, B.A., physics/mathematics), a senior project engineer at The Aerospace Corporation, says that his former professor used acronyms like “FLT” - which meant, “from last time” - long before text messages were invented, to recap lecture notes from the previous class. “I remember one ... Read More
It Can Happen Here: CSU Dominguez Hills and Emergency Preparedness
As emergency management and preparedness coordinator of California State University, Dominguez Hills, Gary Singer (Class of '05, B.A., political science) says that the reality of emergencies is not if they happen, but when. He says that “Operation Jump Start,” a functional exercise that took place last month, was very informative in assessing the university's readiness for an emergency. “If you had a drill in which you did everything perfectly, you didn't have a good drill,” he says. “We have a laundry list of things to improve upon–that's the good thing about these drills. Small things... that you don't think about turn out to be very important in an actual emergency.” With the ... Read More
