Scared, alone and with no real place to go, several children stand with full plastic grocery bags on the United States side of the U.S.-Mexico border while being detained by border patrol officers. After they're taken to a shelter, a few are handed empty brand new backpacks. They dump their grocery bags into the packs and fill them with what is likely everything they have in the world. For California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) art design students Deborah Paramo and Maria Vargas, who designed the student-learning project “Surviving by the Hour: The Migration of Unaccompanied Minors” to raise funds to purchase and donate the backpacks, “everything they have in the world” ... Read More
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O&P Program assists in project to give 3-D printed hand to young girl
The Orthothics and Prosthetics program at CSUDH received local and national attention recently for the role it played in giving a local 7-year-old girl a prosthetic hand through 3D print technology. The project was led by the nonprofit e-NABLE in partnership with Built-It, a do-it-yourself 3-D printing workspace. O&P instructor Mark Muller consulted on the case and helped custom fit the 3-D printed arm with a silicone insert. Video from My50 Chicago Television coverage of the story featuring Mark Muller A sampling of other media coverage: 7-year-old Lakewood girl gets a new 'robohand' through 3-D printing technology -- Press-Telegram/Daily Breeze 3-D printer provides ... 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
University Presented with Presidential Award for Higher Education Community Service
In recognition of California State University, Dominguez Hills' (CSUDH) commitment to serving the community and providing students with meaningful opportunities to enhance their academics, John Kelly, deputy chief of staff for the Corporation for National & Community Service (CNCS), will present the Presidential Award for higher education community service to University President Willie J. Hagan at the second annual CSUDH Community Engagement Symposium on March 25. The presentation will take place at 1:30 p.m. The symposium is scheduled from 11 a.m. to 2:45 p.m. in the Loker Student Union Ballroom C. CSUDH was one of only four institutions across the country to receive CNCS's ... Read More
Leading Constitutional Law Scholar Erwin Chemerinsky Answers: “Can a Lawyer Make a Difference?”
Erwin Chemerinsky, the nation's foremost expert on constitutional law, will present “Can a Lawyer Make a Difference” at the inaugural Social Justice Distinguished Speaker Series at California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) on Monday, April 13. The talk will take place from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. in the Claudia Hampton Lecture Hall, room 165 in Welch Hall. Founding and current Dean of the University of California, Irvine School of Law, who also holds the titles of Distinguished Professor of Law and Raymond Pryke Endowed Chair in First Amendment Law at the school, Chemerinsky was named the most influential person in legal education in the United States by National Jurist Magazine in ... Read More