Lesley Leighton, CSUSB assistant professor of music and director of choral activities, looks forward to adding to the Inland Empire music scene after being named principal guest conductor of the San Bernardino Symphony Orchestra.
Robert Levi Jr., the university’s first Elder/Culture Bearer In-Residence, will serve as a mentor to American Indian students to develop and enhance positive native cultural identities.
Marc Robinson (history) discussed the “Bridges that Carried Us Over” community history project documenting Black history in the Inland Empire.
Tony Coulson (information and decision science), Brian Levin (criminal justice), David Yaghoubian (history), and Nicholas Bratcher (music) were included in recent news coverage.
CSUSB’s College of Education played a key role in its new designation as a Research 2 institution, helping to elevate the university’s status to one of the nation’s top research and teaching institutions.
The exhibit INTO LIGHT, which will open at CSUSB in September, seeks to broaden discussions about addiction across the nation through the stories of those who have lost loved ones to Substance Use Disorder (SUD). Submissions for INTO LIGHT are now being accepted.
Nancy Acevedo (education) was interviewed about “The Chicana/o/x Dream: Hope, Resistance, and Educational Success,” a book she co-authored, and Brian Levin (criminal justice) discussed the sharp increase in hate crimes between 2020 and 2021.
The Feb. 23 Conversations on Race and Policing, on Zoom, will feature Tony Gaskew, University of Pittsburgh professor of criminal justice and author of “Stop Trying to Fix Policing: Lessons Learned from the Front Lines of Black Liberation.”
The contributions, in the form of historical photos, can be brought to one of two events in the coming weeks where photos and will be scanned.
Nicholas Bratcher, director of bands at CSUSB, has been named director of the San Bernardino Symphony Youth Wind Ensemble, and Anthony Silard associate professor of public administration, released his second article of a three-part series for “The Art of Living Free,” exploring how we’ve become lonely and disconnected from each other.
Through a program developed by art and design associate professor Ed Gomez, CSUSB art students are getting hands-on experience with international artist Daniel Ruanova and will help create a piece that will be exhibited at The Cheech.
The $50,000 gift by Charles and Priscilla Porter will support the Porter Resource Center, which works to develop a thriving and sustainable history major at the Palm Desert Campus and enhances its reputation as an educational leader in the social science field.