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CSUSB’s workforce development effort highlighted
Site Selection Magazine
The “Defining the Future Conference” at Cal State San Bernardino in April was highlighted in an article about CSUSB and Loma Linda University, which described both as “institutions that have forged reputations over decades as two of the best workforce development institutions in the country.” Ryan Keating (history, executive director of the Office of Student Research) and Timothy Akers (associate provost, Office of Academic Research), who are organizing the conference at CSUSB, were interviewed about the university’s efforts in workforce development.
Millions of Californians Witness or Experience Hate Crimes, Report Finds
Vanguard News Group
March 7, 2026
Brian Levin, chair of the California Commission on the State of Hate and founding director of CSUSB's Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism, was quoted in an article about the commission’s annual report. The report documents rising hate activity statewide and outlines policy recommendations focused on prevention, victim support and stronger public responses. Levin noted that California is leading the nation in its response to hate crimes.
CSUSB’s Kathryn Ervin directs production of ‘American Moor,’ to be staged in the Coachella Valley
Broadway World
March 3, 2026
Kathryn Ervin, professor emerita of theatre arts at California State University, San Bernardino, is the director of “American Moor,” will will be staged at four different venues in the Coachella Valley as part of The Newish Shakespeare Festival March 13 through April 3.
From fossils to film and the science of motion with Stuart Sumida
Paleo Nerds (podcast)
Feb. 25, 2026
Hosts Ray Troll and Dave Strassman talk with CSUSB vertebrate paleontologist and Society of Vertebrate Paleontology President Stuart Sumida about sail-backed synapsids, pelycosaurs, and the world before dinosaurs while also diving into his work advising filmmakers and animators on how extinct animals should really move, look and behave.
Man found dead after crash outside power facility in southern Nevada
NBC News
Feb. 20, 2026
Brian Levin, founding director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino, was quoted in an article about a man who crashed a rental car into a power facility in southern Nevada on Feb. 19. Authorities said the man, who fatally shot himself, had extremist literature in his hotel room and carried several weapons and explosives in the car. The case is being investigated as a terrorist incident.
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