Assistant Professor of Psychology Irene Tung has been awarded a Visionary Grant from the American Psychological Foundation in the amount of $19,979. The grant, which seeks to support research that uses psychology to solve social problems, will fund Tung’s pilot study of emotional health and stress physiology during pregnancy for one year. Tung, who joined the CSUDH faculty in January 2022, began researching the impacts of early life stress on children’s development while earning her doctorate in clinical psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles. As she advanced throughout graduate school, she became interested in earlier developmental stages and how adverse experiences ... Read More
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CSUDH wins $100,000 Getty Research Grant for PST Initiative
(Carson, CA) – California State University, Dominguez Hills’ (CSUDH) University Art Gallery has been awarded a $100,000 grant from the Getty Foundation. The funds will be used to conduct research related to the gallery's contribution to the next Pacific Standard Time initiative in 2024, which this time focuses on the relationship between art and science. Entitled “Brackish Waters Los Angeles,” the CSUDH project will revolve around the concept of brackish water sites, areas where fresh and ocean water intermix. The exhibition will explore this notion both literally, with scientific research into Southern California's waterways, and metaphorically, as an 'in between space' of great change ... Read More
Daily Breeze: CSUDH Program to Train Math and Science Teachers for Local Schools
Source: Daily Breeze Carson’s Cal State Dominguez Hills has received a $7.6 million federal grant to train 350 aspiring, low-income math and science teachers for LAUSD schools over the next five years, including those in the South Bay cities of Carson, Gardena and Lomita, and the Los Angeles neighborhoods of San Pedro, Wilmington and Harbor City. The Accelerated Preparation Program for Leaders in Education — or APPLE — will give prospective teachers the opportunity to earn credentials for both multiple and single subjects; usually such credentials are offered in separate programs. The program is designed for those who can’t afford a traditional student-teaching or residency program, ... Read More
TRIO Student Support Services Receives $2.4 Million Grant
(Carson, CA) California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) has received two U.S. Department of Education (DOE) grants totaling $2.4 million for the TRIO Student Support Services program to provide low-income and military veteran students the services and coaching they need to excel at CSUDH. Student Support Services (SSS) is one of the eight federal “TRIO” programs that help support low-income and first-generation college students, and those with disabilities succeed in higher education. The DOE grants will help CSUDH’s SSS program provide an array of comprehensive services, including academic tutoring, financial aid advice, career and college mentoring, and assist students to ... Read More
CSUDH Awarded Over $15 Million in Research Grants for 2019-2020
With more than $15.8 million in grants for research and creative projects awarded between July 2019 and June 2020, California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) continues to bring in impressive grant totals, despite the radical disruption to last year’s academic calendar caused by COVID-19. This is a $2.3 million increase from CSUDH's 2018-2019 totals of $13.5 million. Most of the larger grants for 2019-2020 have already been announced, including: $550,000 State of California grant for Sonal Singhal's project “Hybrid Approach for Authentic Scientific Inquiry for Biology Undergraduates” $438,000 NIH/NIGMA grant for Philip Vieira's project “High Precision Pharmacokinetic ... Read More
