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Aisha Wahab makes history as the first Afghan American elected to Congress
The 19th via Yahoo!News
Aug. 20, 2026
Meredith Conroy (political science), was interviewed for an article about the election to fill the U.S. House seat formerly held by Eric Swalwell. His departure, Conroy said, meant that the barrier inherently created by incumbents – “one of the biggest structural obstacles women candidates face” – was removed, and opened the door for Democrat Aisha Wahab, who won the special election. She and Melissa Hernandez, a Democrat who was also on the ballot for the special election, are running for the full term in November.
See fossils up close at PaleoCon at Hemet’s Western Science Center
The Press-Enterprise
Aug. 19, 2026
Stuart Sumida, (biology), will be one of the paleontologists from across the country who will present at PaleoCon, a fossil-themed event at the Western Science Center, a natural history museum in Hemet. The event runs from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 22.
The following faculty have published their research recently.
- Structural Transformation, Gender Norms, and Care Deficits: Women’s Labor Force Participation in Türkiye, 1998–2018
The European Journal of Development Research
Yasemin Dildar, professor of economics, published a paper that “analyzes women’s labor force participation in Türkiye from 1998 to 2018 using five waves of the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS). Employing an Age-Period-Cohort (APC) analysis, the study disentangles the effects of life cycle, economic shifts, and generational changes on labor force participation.” - Ritual transformation, deity embodiment, and Nagualism in formative period Oaxaca, Mexico.
Latin American Antiquity
Guy Hepp (anthropology) and Jeffery Brzezinski (University of Colorado), published an article that “analyzes the assemblages of humans and other-than-humans that animated the sacred landscape of Cerro de la Virgen, a hilltop site occupied during the Formative period (1800 BC–AD 250) in the lower Río Verde Valley of coastal Oaxaca, Mexico.” - Navigating online STEM courses: Comparing diverse student perspectives at two Hispanic-serving institutions.
Journal of Latinos and Education
Miranda McIntyre (psychology) led a team of researchers that included CSUSB faculty Jesus Canelon (information and decision sciences), Hani Aldirawi and Youngsu Kim (mathematics) and Ki Eun Kang (public administration), and UC Riverside’s Joyce Fu (statistics). They examined equity gaps in higher education in online courses, specifically Latinx students in STEM fields. “This study examined the perspectives of 1138 undergraduate students (606 identifying as Hispanic/Latino/Latina) with experience taking multiple online STEM classes. Specifically, we assessed students’ views of lecture characteristics, rehearsal strategies, and testing approaches in online STEM courses at two Hispanic-Serving Institutions.” - The docket disrupted: Insights into the impact of COVID-19 on court operations, workloads, and workgroup well-being from a national survey of court professionals.
Journal of Crime and Justice
Reveka Shteynberg (criminal justice), with Kirstin Morgan (Appalachian State University), published a study that “examines how the COVID-19 pandemic reshaped U.S. court operations, workgroup dynamics, workloads, and case processing. Prior research focuses on single jurisdictions, courts, or roles, and little is known about comparative nationwide cross-role experiences.”
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