Bibiana Díaz, associate professor of Spanish, was surprised on June 11 with the award for her “passion, commitment and dedication to student success and providing career and life guidance.”
Lua Lopez (biology) is interviewed about her latest research on genomics and natural history collections, Bree Putman (biology) co-authored a paper that suggests how animals lose their fear of predators, and Brian Levin (criminal justice) discussed the resentencing of a man who plotted to burn down a mosque.
Dr. W. Benson Harer, longtime friend and supporter of CSUSB and the Robert and Frances Fullerton Museum of Art, has been named the recipient of the book club’s 2020 Emory Award.
The importance of education for Latinos during the COVID-19 pandemic was the topic of discussion with representatives from Cal State San Bernardino.
Meredith Conroy (political science), Brian Levin (criminal justice) and Alemayehu G. Mariam (political science, emeritus) were included in recent news coverage in their areas of expertise.
The National Best Chapter Award from Pi Sigma Alpha, the national political science honor society, is its highest accolade for campus chapters. The latest honor also makes it the 12th time that CSUSB’s Theta Iota Chapter has earned the award.
CSUSB will offer for the first time a winter intersession, a compacted session between the fall and spring semester, that will begin Dec. 18 and end Jan. 19, 2021, so students can make progress toward their degree during the winter break.
Including CSUSB, 157 colleges and universities made Washington Monthly’s national Best Colleges for Student Voting list.
The panel on Sept. 23 will feature Vida Johnson, associate professor of law at Georgetown University; Michael German, former FBI special agent and now a fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice’s Liberty & National Security Program; and Sam Levin, Los Angeles correspondent for The Guardian.
Brian Levin (criminal justice) was interviewed for an article about U.S. Attorney General William Barr directing federal prosecutors to file sedition charges against protestors. He and other experts say the government is fighting the wrong battle.
Longtime supporters of CSUSB, husband and wife John Kennedy and Ann Kough, gifted $100,000 to endow a named scholarship in honor of Thomas Pierce for his dedication to students in the Department of Economics.
The 2020 Garner Holt Student Fast Pitch Competition, where CSUSB students can pitch their business venture ideas for cash prizes, is accepting submissions until midnight, Sept. 27.