Nearly 350 attendees spent their Saturday on the campus of California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) for the second annual STEM in Education conference on June 7, 2014. Students, faculty, K-12 math and science teachers, educational organizations, and professionals in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) from around the country mingled during the day-long event, which was hosted by CSUDH's California STEM Institute for Innovation and Improvement (CSI3). Featuring poster sessions and hands-on workshops led by educators from CSU Dominguez Hills as well as UCLA, CSU Bakersfield, CSU Fullerton, Cal State TEACH, Los Angeles Unified School District ... Read More
Teacher Education
STEM in Education Conference – June 7
California State University, Dominguez Hills will host its second STEM in Education Conference for science, technology, engineering and math educators at all levels from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Saturday, June 7 in the Loker Student Union Ballroom on campus. Hosted by several of the university's grant-funded teacher preparation program–Math and Science Teaching Initiative, Noyce Scholars Program, Transition to Teaching, Transition to Teaching Online, Urban Teacher Residency program, and Master Teachers Fellow--the 2014 STEM in Education Conference will highlight innovative strategies and best practices for STEM educators. More than 300 educators from across the state of California are ... Read More
Education a Key Role for Actor, Alumnus Jeff Coopwood
From the time he was 8, Jeff Coopwood knew he wanted to be an actor. He not only reached that goal but in the nearly five decades since, the California State University, Dominguez Hills alumnus (M.A., Class of '08, Humanities; HUX) has played scores of characters for film, television, stage and commercials, including roles on “Seinfeld,” “The Client,” “The Bold and the Beautiful,” “Family Matters,” “Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman,” and “Beverly Hills, 90210.” In addition to his prolific front-of-the-camera work, Coopwood has a large body of voiceover work, including for “The Green Mile,” “The Rock,” “The Fugitive,” “Spider-Man 2,” “Beethoven's 4th,” “The Rugrats Movie,” and “Buffy the Vampire ... Read More
STEM Education Students Teach Science of Golf
Part of the struggle to interest more young people in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM)–and equally a challenge for their K-12 teachers–is how to make these subjects more engaging. From Feb. 13 to 16, 23 California State University, Dominguez Hills students with aspirations of becoming math and science educators were given the chance to see one way to do that–through the game of golf. Students in the university's STEM educator scholarship programs–Math and Science Teacher Initiative, Noyce Scholars, Transition to Teaching (TTT)– spent their weekend at the Northern Trust Pro-Am Golf Tournament at the Riviera Country Club in Pacific Palisades, where they taught the science ... Read More
Lyzbeth Becerra: Noyce Scholar Testing Research Waters to Aid Future as Teacher
California State University, Dominguez Hills Noyce Scholar Lyzbeth Becerra learned how to be a research scientist this summer–and in the process has taken major steps to become the best teacher she can be. Becerra was among the approximately 200 students from either within the California State University system or at other universities with a Robert Noyce Scholarship Program who were selected to participate in STEM Teacher and Researcher (STAR), a summer internship organized by the Center for Excellence in Science and Math Education (CESAME) at Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo. STAR partners with national research labs to provide aspiring STEM (science, technology, engineering ... Read More