Spotlight
Manuel A. Salinas Elementary School students’ work featured in upcoming smARTshow and Sacred Spaces exhibitions
Now in its fifth year, smARTshow is an annual exhibition of student artwork made possible through a decade-long partnership between Cal State San Bernardino and Manuel A. Salinas Creative Arts Elementary School.
More than 3,100 graduates were honored over five ceremonies May 15-16 at the Toyota Arena in Ontario. “Calling CSUSB education transformational is not an exaggeration,” university President Tomás D. Morales said. “I have seen this truth demonstrated again and again in the lives of the students who entrust this university with their academic dreams and goals.”
This installment looks at the university during the 2020s, when the university navigated the challenges of a global pandemic while expanding academic programs, research activity and regional impact. Yet that didn’t deter Cal State San Bernardino from its mission to help its students define their futures.
Stuart Sumida, professor of biology and the president of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, is the lead signatory of a letter signed by more than 150 scientists urging Congress to protect Utah’s Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, citing its global importance for dinosaur fossils, paleontology research, biodiversity and ecotourism.