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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‘In the Next Room’ Sure to Create Hysteria
California State University, Dominguez Hills’ (CSUDH) production of “In the Next Room (or the vibrator play),” playwright Sarah Ruhl’s comedic play set in the 1880s about sex, intimacy, equality, and the use of a new instrument to treat female “hysteria,” will run on campus April 6, 7, 13, and 14 at 8 p.m., and April 15 at 2 p.m. Produced by CSUDH’s Department of Theatre and Dance, and directed by Shonni Holmes, alumnus and theatre arts faculty member, “In the Next Room” is the department’s final theatrical production of the 2017-18 season. “Sarah Ruhl is masterful at two things:finding the humor in serious topics, and exploring the depths of the female experience, and‘In the Next ... Read More
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
Student Research Day Showcases Scholarship and Mentorship
Now in its 13th year, Student Research Day (SRD) has become an institution at California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH), and a widely-anticipated showcase of the analytical and creative vigor demonstrated each year by the university’s budding researchers. Close to 220 oral and poster presentations were delivered during SRD on Feb. 14 and 15, covering a wide range of academic disciplines at the university, from history to health, business to biology, Chicana/o studies to computer science. Nearly 50 student investigators emerged with top honors. From that winning pool, 10 projects will be selected to represent CSUDH at the statewide CSU Research Competition May 4 and 5 at CSU ... Read More
CSUDH Awarded $445K from Mellon Foundation to Support Students’ Doctoral Pursuits in Humanities
California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) has been awarded a $444,832 subgrant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to encourage more undergraduate students from underrepresented minority groups (URM), including African American, Latino/a, Native American, and other students committed to diversity, to pursue Ph.D.s in the humanities. The subgrant is part of a larger $2,211,000 award to the CSU Foundation to establish Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship (MMUF) programs at five CSU Southern California campuses—Dominguez Hills, Fullerton, Long Beach, San Bernardino, and Los Angeles. The Mellon Foundation’s centerpiece program, MMUF, aims to address the lack of diversity among ... Read More
