With help from students in California State University, Dominguez Hills' (CSUDH) Orthotics and Prosthetics Department, O&P patients learned to better manage their functional limitations in a fun and active way during First Dance and First Swim adaptive clinics on March 16–17. The O&P Society, the O&P Department's student organization, held the clinics in partnership with the Orthotic and Prosthetic Activities Foundation (OPAF) to offer those with amputations, limb differences, and other physical disabilities the opportunity to learn or relearn to dance and swim with the help of skilled instructors and adaptive equipment. For many, it was the first time they entered a pool ... Read More
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Campus Reduces Energy Grid Dependency with Artificial Intelligence
A new energy storage system on the California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) campus is reducing the university’s impact on the local power grid and making the campus more sustainable. Twenty large Tesla battery banks installed on the campus in December 2017 went online at the beginning of the year, making CSUDH one of the first to participate in an innovative load relief program that combines artificial intelligence (AI)-energy storage and demand response. “We have a one-of-a-kind demand response system that nobody else is doing yet, which shows other universities and big players out there that Cal State Dominguez Hills is paving the way in energy efficiency technology,” ... Read More
Faculty Highlights: February 2018
Our faculty members participate in conferences around the world, conduct groundbreaking research, and publish books and journal papers that contribute to their field and highlight their expertise. We feature those accomplishments and more in this section. College of Arts and Humanities Salim Faraji, professor of African Studies, has co-authored the article “Déjà vu: The Crisis of the Black Intellectual Again: Ta-Nehisi Coates, Cornel West and the Omission of the Pan-Africanist Tradition,” which was published in the Black Star News on Jan. 20. Faraji also hosted a weekly four-part series titled “Ancient Nubia and Sudanic Africa” throughout February 2018 at Shades of Afrika in ... Read More
DACA Student Maricruz De La Torre Honored with CSU’s Crellin Pauling Student Teaching Award
Whether she becomes a biomedical researcher, a professor, or both, California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) graduate student Maricruz De La Torre will always consider dispelling ignorant cultural views about science, and who teaches it, among her most important professional obligations. After sharing such values in an award nomination essay, De La Torre was honored with the Crellin Pauling Student Teaching Award, and its $2,000 prize. She was one of two California State University (CSU) students given the annual award that acknowledges outstanding teaching in biotechnology-related settings, courses, and programs. The award was presented at the CSU Biotechnology Symposium on ... Read More
To Ban or Not to Ban: Teachers Grapple with Forcing Students to Disconnect from Technology
At Cal State Dominguez Hills, the low November sun had faded to dusk when professor Toddy Eames called for a break in the middle of a nearly three-hour screenwriting class. “Fifteen minutes!” she announced as her students stood, stretched or ambled to the door. “You can take out your phones,” she added, but most students were already scrolling through the texts, emails, Snapchats and other postings that had piled up during an hour of mandated tech abstinence. Since fall 2016, the communications department at California State University at Dominguez Hills has banned smartphones, laptops and other personal technology in every classroom — with grade deductions for violations — except for ... Read More
