Source: Daily Breeze How fired up is the South Bay and Long Beach — economically, at least — since the legalization of marijuana four years ago? The region could soon find out after Carson’s Cal State Dominguez Hills received a $1.8 million, two-year state grant to study the costs and benefits of the cannabis industry in several diverse communities the university serves. Those include Torrance, Hawthorne, Carson, Inglewood and Lawndale in the South Bay, as well as Long Beach, Compton, the unincorporated county community of Willowbrook and the L.A city neighborhood Watts. Cal State Dominguez Hills researchers said in their grant application that the region they will focus on has ... Read More
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KFI News Radio: CSU Dominguez Hills Gets Grant To Study Cannabis Industry
Source: KFI News Radio CARSON - Cal State Dominguez Hills has secured a $1.8 million grant to conduct research on the cannabis industry in the South Bay area, officials announced today. “I am delighted that CSU Dominguez Hills has been awarded this critical funding for the important work they are doing,'' said Sen. Steven Bradford, a Democrat who represents the South Bay area. “Their research will assist in understanding the role that the cannabis industry plays in economic revitalization and equity in our community, informing policy decisions for years.'' The money -- part of more than $29 million in public university research grant funding to universities across ... Read More
Daily Breeze: CSUDH Receives $1.6 Million to Preserve Historic Music from African Diaspora
Source: Daily Breeze The Michigan-based Georgia and Nolan Payton Foundation has offered Carson’s Cal State Dominguez Hills a $1.6 million gift that will help preserve historic musical performances and songs for the new Center For African Diaspora Sacred Music and Musicians. Formerly known as the African Diaspora Sacred Music and Musicians Program, it already includes the Georgia and Nolan Payton Archive of Sacred Music. The program, which focuses on music created and performed in Southern California, is internationally recognized for its preservation and promotion of African Diaspora music, which dates from the days Black people were enslaved. “The investment in support of our ... Read More
LB Business Journal: Strong Tech Sector, Infrastructure Investments will Aid South Bay Economic Recovery
Source: Long Beach Business Journal In many ways, Cal State Dominguez Hills’ 2020 South Bay Economic Forecast and Industry Outlook paints as grim a picture as any economic analysis of the current situation. Significant job losses, racial inequity among those suffering the harshest impacts of the economic slowdown—Los Angeles County, and by extension the South Bay, have been hit hard. But there are glimmers of hope that have led the university’s economic expert to feel more confident in the region’s economic future than the projected 15.6% year-over-year increase in unemployment for the second quarter might suggest. The tech industry, one of the largest employers in the region, has ... Read More
CSUDH Partners with Multi-Media Artist Toni Scott
(Carson, CA) — California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) has entered into an impactful strategic partnership with acclaimed mixed media artist Toni Scott to inform and inspire students and the broader community to explore emblematic historical and cultural themes through art. Scott’s engagement with the CSUDH campus begins this fall and will open a new window of innovative academic and co-curricular endeavors. “This new CSUDH-Toni Scott collaboration represents a meshing of individual and institutional souls creating energy that feeds the other in reciprocal ways, and provides the broader community with a lifeline to its past, present, and future,” says CSUDH President ... Read More
