Against a sunny, clear spring day, a gathering of faculty, staff and students helped mark the re-opening of the California State University, Dominguez Women's Resource Center with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on March 3. “We are so happy to be able to re-open the women's center,” Vice President of Enrollment Management and Student Affairs Borrego said. “There has been so much shared effort among groups on campus in support of the center. It is a great day to see it open.” Ivonne Heinze-Balcazar, assistant professor and chair of the Department of Modern Languages who served as director of Women's Resource Center prior to its closing, expressed joy at seeing the center reopen. “I am so ... Read More
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Google Glass, Others Offer Business Students Insights into Cutting Edge Enterprise
Students along with faculty and staff from California State University, Dominguez Hills were given a glimpse into the future, if not through rose-colored glasses certainly through futuristic ones. David Zakariaie, CEO of Glassic, a private company that creates applications for Google Glass, provided an overview of the so-named deviced, its components, capabilities, and special considerations such as battery life and privacy issues during a presentation hosted by the Hospitality Technology Research Institute (HTRI) in the university's Financial Market Trading and Business Simulation Lab. As part of the Feb. 5 demonstration attendees were able to experience for themselves the ... Read More
Cuban and CSUDH Faculty, Students Participate in Sociological Exchange
The idea to take a group of students to Cuba stemmed from an academic visit that Jose Prado made to the island nation when he was a graduate sociology student more than 10 years ago. “I made a promise to myself that, like the professors who took me and other students to study in Cuba, I'd do the same when I became a professor,” he said. Prado kept his promise. Prado, an associate professor of sociology at California State University, Dominguez Hills, collaborated with Cuban academics from Havana's Universidad de la Habana and Casa de las Americas (CLA), a Cuban cultural institution, to design a week-long academic seminar, Latitudes de Latinidad en America (Latitudes of Latina/o ... Read More
CBAPP Hosts Successful Women Leaders Symposium
“Don't ever underestimate confidence. Even if you don't know what you're doing at the moment, act like you do. Fake it until you can make it.” “Never let them see you sweat.” These are just some of the words of wisdom imparted to about 175 students, mostly women along with several men, from business classes, faculty, staff, and guests by a panel of prominent women business and community leaders at the Successful Women Leaders Symposium hosted by the College of Business and Public Policy at California State University, Dominguez Hills on Feb. 25 in the Loker Student Union. The diverse group of women, director of recruitment at Northwestern Mutual Kristin Burke, attorney at law ... Read More
Ninth Annual Student Research Day: A Rewarding Experience in Record Numbers
Record numbers marked the ninth annual California State University, Dominguez Hills Student Research Day (SRD) on Feb. 13. This year SRD featured the work of 316 students and 63 faculty mentors–a 70 percent increase in participation within the last three years alone. In its first year, in 2005, with 63 oral presentations and 11 posters, the on-campus conference, has nearly tripled in size with 180 total presentations this year, according to Laura Robles, emeritus professor of biology and acting associate vice president of Research and Funded Projects, who has been on every SRD planning committee since it was established. “It's really become something that is taking on a life of its ... Read More