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
Faculty
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wide range of materials into her curriculum in order to help her students delve into the subject matter–from films and historical documents to marriage advice manuals and histories of the colonies in the new world.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
Anne Soon Choi Named 2022 Lyle E. Gibson Distinguished Teacher
Anne Soon Choi loves to teach. As professor and chair of Interdisciplinary studies, she is passionate about engaging students in critical thinking, enabling them to personally connect to their coursework, and facilitating hands-on learning. “The best way to learn is by doing,” Choi says. “The most important thing is that my students walk away with skills that can be applied to their lives.” That enthusiasm for teaching has earned Choi the 2022 Lyle E. Gibson Distinguished Teacher Award, given in honor of CSUDH's late founding vice president for Academic Affairs. The award recognizes faculty who manifest in their teaching an understanding of broad areas of knowledge, and whose teaching ... Read More
CSUDH Alumni Bring OT Skills to Their Texas Practice
CSUDH Occupational Therapy (OT) alumni Hiram Corona Martinez and Vanessa Yanez long dreamed of running their own practice - and in June 2021, their plans came to fruition with their Bravo Therapy & Independent Living Center in San Antonio, Tex. The married couple's practice quickly become a success due to their patient-first focus on quality care. During the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the couple began to recognize certain patterns in health care that they wanted to change and do differently, explains Yanez. “We saw a real lack of diversity in health care administration and management. Many of them didn't understand our culture, even though a lot of the patients and clients ... Read More
