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CSUSB professor discusses double standards for women in politics and the backlash Katie Porter faces over behavior an interview
CapRadio (Sacremento)
Oct. 10, 2025
But Meredith Conroy, a political science professor at California State University, San Bernardino and a gender and politics expert, was interviewed for an article about the scrutiny – and apparent double-standard because of gendered expectations – California gubernatorial candidate Katie Porter is undergoing over a recent CBS News Sacramento interview. An audio version was also posted online, and was also included in a segment, “Katie Porter faces political backlash for interview behavior.”
Raisa wins two academic awards
IE Business Daily
Oct. 12, 2025
Raisa Alvarado, an assistant professor of communications and media at Cal State San Bernardino, has received two awards from the National Communication Association.
Alvarado has won the Pedagogy Award from the association’s activism and social justice division, and the Scholar Activist Award from its feminist and gender studies division.
Dinosaur fossils provide unique scientific data and should not be sold at auction (in French)
RTBF/The Conversation
Oct 11, 2025
The French-language news website published the August 2025 opinion column Stuart Sumida, CSUSB professor of biology and president of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, coauthored about the trend of fossils being sold at auctions for private collections. The authors wrote that fossils held by private collectors stymies scientific research.
Research published
Legitimacy, Brutalization, and the Acceptability of Violence: Evidence from the Death Penalty and Fatal Officer-Involved Shootings
Deviant Behavior
Sishi Wu and Zachary A. Powell (criminal justice) wrote a paper that “uses a national survey experiment to examine how public attitudes toward violence change after being exposed to different narratives and statistics about state-sanctioned killing” and “the critical role of wrongful death narratives shape public opinion on justice and violence.”
The potential of national parks and protected areas in the anthropocene: Emerging incubators of environmenetal justice and co-stewardship conservation
Annals of the American Association of Geographers
Yolonda Youngs (geography and environmental studies) published a paper that “explored the new models of collaboration and partnerships between the U.S. National Park Service and Tribal Nations that seek to create co-stewardship conservation” that focused on “a qualitative and historical case study of Grand Canyon National Park.”
The paper “advances geographic insights gathered from national parks and protected areas research by highlighting approaches and analysis of (environmental justice) issues and discussing emerging practices and policy models that will be of interests to geographers from a range of subfields within the discipline as well as interdisciplinary environmental scholars and scientists.”
Actomyosin-based nanodevices for sensing and actuation: Bridging biology and bioengineering
Biosensors
Nicolas Brunet (psychology) led a team of researchers who published a review that “explores the growing potential of actomyosin-powered systems in biosensing and actuation applications, highlighting their compatibility with physiological conditions, responsiveness to biochemical and physical cues and modular adaptability.”
Addressing kinship caregivers' ambivalence and internalized stigma to improve acceptance of financial assistance for children in foster care
Social Work
Jamal Appiah-Kubi (social work) was part of a team of researchers who published a study that examined financial assistance programs, such as the Kinship Guardianship Assistance Program, that provide ongoing support for the care of children when reunification with their biological parents or adoption by other families is not feasible. They looked at what made kinship caregivers reluctant to obtain such assistance.
Transportation, routine activities, and unmet travel needs among older Vietnamese immigrants in the United States
Journal of Gerontological Social Work
Priyanjali Chakraborty (social work) was part of a research team that examined barriers to transportation for older Vietnamese immigrants in the U.S., and how that affects their basic quality of life.
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