Despite having earned a degree in aeronautical engineering from Cal Tech as a young man and having enjoyed a successful career in the aerospace industry, Philip Johnson was retired and in his 50s when he began attending California State University, Dominguez Hills in the late 1970s. By all accounts, Johnson was an enthusiastic participant in academic pursuits within the CSUDH physics department, where he dedicated himself to both learning everything he could and sharing his own considerable knowledge with others. He earned his bachelor's degree in physics in 1980. “Phil was what you might call a renaissance man, well-versed in many fields: literature, philosophy and history,” wrote Keith ... Read More
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Ricardo Vargas, earth science major, is off to D.C. for HACU internship
Ricardo Vargas, an earth science major at California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH), is eager to acquire new knowledge about the natural world, engage and network with peers, and explore the nation's capital during the warm summer months as an intern in the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Department of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences (AGS). Vargas will be in Washington D.C. from May 29 to Aug. 9 as part of the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities' (HACU) National Internship Program. A 33-year-old Long Beach resident, Vargas will be part of an NSF team that will be running statistical analysis related to the demographics of students participating in ... Read More
‘STEM in Action’ conference at CSUDH stirs the imagination of K-12 students
Scaling a rock wall to learn about human energy output, discovering why solar tubes float, and launching paper rockets to put Newton's Law to the test are just a few of the learning activities that were offered to local school children during the first “STEM in Action: A Kid's Conference” at California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH). Hosted on May 5 by the California STEM Institute for Innovation and Improvement (CSI3), a component of the Center for Innovation in STEM Education (CISE) at CSUDH, the conference featured a dozen booths designed to stir wonder, arouse the imagination and evoke the ingenuity of the nearly 450 K-12 students who attended the conference. “The ... Read More
CSUDH agreements offer students early admission to Caribbean medical schools
California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) now guarantees that qualified students who want to earn Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) degrees can gain early admission to the American University of Antigua (AUA) or St. George's University (SGU) in Grenada. CSUDH recently signed memorandums of understandings (MOU) with the two West Indies universities to establish early admission programs (EAP). Designed primarily for pre-health students at CSUDH, the programs are also open to any students, regardless of major, who earn the required prerequisites, according to Thomas Landefeld, professor of biology and pre-health adviser in CSUDH's Department of Biology and faculty adviser to ... Read More
Nursing Program Ranked By U.S. News & World Report, NurseJournal.org
California State University, Dominguez Hills' School of Nursing and its degree programs were recently ranked nationally by two publications. In the U.S. News & World Report 2015 Best College rankings, CSUDH School of Nursing's online Bachelor of Nursing program ranked 140th in the nation for online degree programs. U.S. News & World Report's methodology considers student engagement, faculty credentialing and training, and student services and technology. For more information on the rankings, visit here. The School also received the highest ranking in the West by NurseJournal.org, a social networking website for nurses and health care professionals, with an overall score of ... Read More
