Professor of Art Gilah Yelin Hirsch was selected as co-president elect of the International Society for the Study of Subtle Energies and Energy Medicine (ISSSEEM) and will preside over the organization's annual conference in 2012. A transcription of Hirsch's presentation on “Biotheology, Imagery, and Healing” from ISSSEEM's annual conference last June, which included a most comprehensive survey of reproductions of paintings spanning her entire career, was published in the recent issue of the organization's journal, Subtle Energies and Energy Medicine. Hirsch, who shares the office of co-president elect with energy medicine expert Dr. Karl Maret, says that she hopes to further ... Read More
Students
Second 50th Anniversary Painting Unveiled at Reading by Award-Winning Poet
The second in a series of four paintings exclusively created by local artists for the 50th anniversary of California State University, Dominguez Hills was unveiled on Jan. 20 in the Loker Student Union. Students, faculty, and staff welcomed artist Aydee Lopez Martinez, who shared her new work, “The Heart of CSU Dominguez Hills.” The evening also featured a reading by Chicana poet and educator Lorna Dee Cervantes, who shared a chronology of works from her 30-year career. Vice president of university advancement Greg Saks welcomed the audience, which included students from Phi Sigma Sigma, and a cohort of visiting Central American health professionals from the Scholarships for ... Read More
CSU Dominguez Hills and Northrop Grumman Offer Award-winning Operations Management Program
An online program in the College of Extended and International Education that provides industry professionals with a certificate in production and inventory management won the 2010 Education Award of Excellence from the Association for Operations Management (APICS) at the organization's annual conference last October. California State University, Dominguez Hills shares the award with program partners LA APICS and Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems (NGAS), which subsidizes the 20-month course as professional development. The classes are offered at Northrop sites in El Segundo/Space Park, Rancho Bernardo, Palmdale, San Diego, in addition to online instruction. More than 240 Northrop Grumman ... Read More
University Art Gallery Welcomes Return of Shoebox Sculpture Exhibit
California State University, Dominguez Hills is pleased to welcome the “10th International Shoebox Sculpture Exhibition” to the University Art Gallery for a one month showing from February 2 to March 1. The University Art Gallery hosted the fourth, eighth and ninth editions of this popular exhibition in 1992, 2004 and 2007. Organized by the University of Hawai'i at Manoa Art Gallery, the 10th edition will feature 80 sculptures small enough to fit into a shoebox by a roster of well-known international artists. The shoebox sculpture exhibit concept grew from the desire to expose the public to a wide variety of ideas, styles and materials in contemporary sculpture, as the small scale art ... Read More
Toyota Gift To Help Generate Scholarship Dollars for Student-Athletes
On a January morning during winter break, 13 student-athletes at California State University, Dominguez Hills arrived on campus to receive a different kind of award. Representatives of the Toros Athletics intercollegiate sports teams welcomed Michael Rouse, vice president of philanthropy and community affairs at Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A., Inc. and his company's gift of a fully-loaded 2011 FJ Cruiser, valued at $30,000. The sports utility vehicle will be made available through an opportunity drawing to be held during the Annual Toro Scholarship Golf Classic, this year on June 17. Rouse, an alumnus of CSU Dominguez Hills (Class of '83, MBA) and the newest member of the board of ... Read More
