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Stuart Sumida on episode of ‘Evolution: Body Builders’ 
PBS 
Stuart Sumida (biology) was one of the scientists featured in the PBS/BBC series “Evolution,” appearing in the episode “Evolution: Body Builders,” which examines how evolution crafted “a dazzling variety of body plans.” 

Fruit-eating dinosaur Infernogallus jamesi ID'd for first time by research team with Stony Brook paleontologist
Newsday (Long Island, N.Y.)
Oct. 31, 2026
Stuart Sumida (biology, president of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology) was interviewed for an article about a new species of dinosaur identified by a research team from Stony Brook University, the Royal Ontario Museum and the North Dakota Geological Survey. It’s named Infernogallus jamesi, or “‘Hell Chicken,’ a designation that refers to its discovery in the Hell Creek Formation of the American West and the animal’s birdlike appearance, not to its temperament.”
“What’s very unusual, first of all, is to have a plant-eating animal” shown to be related to a group of carnivores including T. rex, said Sumida, who was not involved in the project. “It shows how plastic evolution can be.”

What went right for Beijing?
LA Review of Books
Nov. 3, 2026
Jeremy Murray (history) reviewed three books: “The Broken China Dream: How Reform Revived Totalitarianism” by Minxin Pei; “China’s Backstory: The History Beijing Doesn’t Want You to Read” by Lee Moore; and “Autocracy 2.0: How China’s Rise Reinvented Tyranny” by Jennifer Lind. “Three recent books, all published in late 2025, help illuminate recent political developments in China, a topic that is sometimes opaque or deliberately mischaracterized due to China’s highly disciplined media apparatus,” he wrote.

The Democratic Party’s masculinity crisis
The New York Times
Oct. 31, 2026
Meredith Conroy, CSUSB professor of political science, was quoted in an opinion piece about the Democratic Party and masculinity. She asked: “Is it that we’re demanding someone who’s masculine, or are we demanding a reaction to the status quo? And the status quo is these wealthier politicians who don’t get their hands dirty, spend all their time in D.C. and haven’t had to work a real job in a long time.”

San Bernardino teacher and CSUSB lecturer receives Fulbright Teacher Exchange award
The Sun
Oct. 30, 2026
Maria Gadsden, a teacher at San Bernardino’s Jefferson Hunt Elementary School and at Cal State San Bernardino, has received a Fulbright Teacher Exchange award for the 2026-27 cycle from the U.S. Department of State. Gadsden also is a graduate of CSUSB. 

T. rex relative ‘Jodi’ skeleton sold after being on display at Sotheby’s
BytesEU (European Union)
Nov. 2, 2026
Stuart Sumida (biology), president of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, said private ownership of fossils such as the Nanotyrannus that sold for more than $47 million at an Oct. 27 auction, can limit future scientific and public access. “Once in private hands it can never be studied, and generations of children and adults alike will never see it again,” Sumida explained.

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