For the second year in a row, a mental health conference focused on Latino students will be held at California State University, Dominguez Hills, on Friday, April 27, from 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., in the Loker Student Union ballroom. Geared toward Latinos aged 11 to 23, the free conference is expected to be attended by more than 150 students. Professor of Chicano/a studies and organizer for the conference Miguel Dominguez said the conference is an opportunity for students, parents, community leaders, counselors, health care providers, and educators to gain insight into the complexity of mental health issues and to begin to explore how to deal with them—mainly, identifying what constitutes a ... Read More
Psychology
L. Mark Carrier: Multitasking Expert Keeps Focus on Students
Despite a research specialty on multitasking, Dr. L. Mark Carrier tends to keep his focus on one common goal: the success of his students and faculty. As a third-time chair of the psychology department, he works to give his colleagues the support that he has received in being nominating and winning the California State University, Dominguez Hills 2011 Presidential Outstanding Professor Award. “I try to stay faculty-centered,” he says. “I support them and give them what they want because I know that will ensure student and departmental success.” Carrier says that he uses an interactive approach with his students as well, giving them a chance to share with him the best ways for them ... Read More
Herman J. Loether (1930-2011): Sociologist Established Tradition and Campus Research
Dr. Herman J. Loether, emeritus professor and founding faculty member of the sociology department at California State University, Dominguez Hills, died of cancer on March 25. During his 30 years at the university, Loether established the Social Systems Research Center (now known as the Urban Community Research Center) and is the only CSU faculty member to be honored as a CSU Outstanding Professor Award nominee at two different campuses; at CSU Los Angeles in 1965, and at CSU Dominguez Hills in 1973 and 1984. Upon arriving at CSU Dominguez Hills in 1967, Loether established the campus’s Alpha Kappa Delta (AKD) chapter. He had served as advisor for the AKD chapter at CSU Los Angeles, and ... Read More
Gilah Yelin Hirsch: Artist Named Co-President Elect of Energy Medicine Society
Professor of Art Gilah Yelin Hirsch was selected as co-president elect of the International Society for the Study of Subtle Energies and Energy Medicine (ISSSEEM) and will preside over the organization’s annual conference in 2012. A transcription of Hirsch’s presentation on “Biotheology, Imagery, and Healing” from ISSSEEM’s annual conference last June, which included a most comprehensive survey of reproductions of paintings spanning her entire career, was published in the recent issue of the organization’s journal, Subtle Energies and Energy Medicine. Hirsch, who shares the office of co-president elect with energy medicine expert Dr. Karl Maret, says that she hopes to further ... Read More
Peter Desberg: New Book Strictly for Laughs
When professor of graduate education Peter Desberg interviewed comedy writers from the golden age of television to the present for his new book, “Show Me the Funny: At the Writers’ Table with Hollywood’s Top Comedy Writers,” he and co-author Jeffrey Davis, a professor of screenwriting at Loyola Marymount University, had the opportunity to ask the age-old question, “What’s so funny?” The answers surprised them. As a licensed clinical psychologist who specializes in treating stage fright, Desberg has worked with numerous stand-up comics. He says that many of the writers he and Davis interviewed had experience as comedians and that they learned what was funny as a survival ... Read More
