Matt Mutchler, associate professor of sociology and director of the Urban Community Research Center (UCRC) at California State University, Dominguez Hills, has been awarded a nearly $400,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) to conduct a three-year groundbreaking study exploring how young gay and bi-sexual black men talk about sexual health with their friends. A collaboration with the Department of Sociology at CSU Dominguez Hills, AIDS Alabama, AIDS Project Los Angeles (where Mutchler directs community-based research), and the University of Alabama, the study aims to better understand how sex talk may influence safer sexual ... Read More
Students
Dora Baldwin: On the Fast Track to Success
Dora Baldwin, 22, has a running start on her future. A star track and field athlete at California State University, Dominguez Hills, she received the 2011-12 Dr. Richard Butwell Award in recognition for her athletic contributions, and for her academic excellence the senior business administration major recently received the 2012 Presidential Outstanding Student Award. As a testament of these accolades, Baldwin has engaged in leadership while a student at CSU Dominguez Hills. She has served in two officer positions for the Student Athlete Advisory Committee, and as a resident advisor in University Housing, providing guidance to about 40 students and creating programs that both educate and ... Read More
Commencement 2012: Graduates Reach Their Goal But Not Their Limits
A record 3,100 students received their diplomas during the 2012 California State University, Dominguez Hills Commencement May 18 and 19 at the Home Depot Center Tennis Stadium. It was the first time in several years the ceremonies spanned two days, with this year's exercises split into five college-based ceremonies. As expected the days were filled with big smiles, hugs, cheers, balloons, confetti, congratulatory signs and a generally festive atmosphere as faculty, administration, staff, special guests, and thousands of family and friends celebrated as master's candidates were hooded and undergraduates moved their tassels from right to left. While many undergraduate students pushed ... Read More
Ludivina Vasquez: A Better State of Mind
Ludivina Vasquez, 20, finished strong at California State University, Dominguez Hills, graduating on May 18 with a Bachelor of Art in psychology from the College of Natural and Behavioral Sciences. Vasquez started out as an average student, but reached her stride toward the end of her sophomore year. That's when she discovered research-- or when chair and professor of psychology Mark Carrier discovered her. Because she was actively participating and excelling in his critical thinking course (PSY 110), Carrier asked her to participate in the George Marsh Applied Cognition Laboratory, which he directs along with fellow psychology professor Larry Rosen and conduct her own independent ... Read More
Pamela Lane: Nursing Graduate Finds Purpose in Helping Others
For Pamela Lane - a recipient of the 2012 California State University, Dominguez Hills Presidential Award for Outstanding Student for academics, leadership and community service and the Presidential Award for Personal Perseverance who was once a high school dropout - walking in commencement exercises to receive her Master of Science in Nursing this past Saturday was not merely an academic accomplishment, but a personal triumph in turning the troubles and tragedies of her past into a future of helping others. Troubled Past Lane grew up in a broken home, her parents having divorced when she was 4 years old and her mother, who remarried and divorced twice more- to abusive heavy drinkers- ... Read More
