The symposium welcomed nearly 100 high school students for hands-on workshops, career panels and creative collaborations that highlighted behind-the-scenes careers in theatre and film.
Raisa Alvarado, assistant professor of communication and media, has been honored with two 2025 National Communication Association awards recognizing her excellence in teaching and social justice advocacy.
CSUSB is now accepting undergraduate applications for the Fall 2026 term, with a Dec. 2 deadline for pre-nursing majors and a Jan. 31 deadline for all other majors.
The campus community and the public are invited to attend Smith-Sangster’s lecture, “Community, Memory, and Adaptation after Strife: Examining a South Abydos Population in the Early New Kingdom,” on Oct. 30 at the Robert and Frances Fullerton Museum of Art.
The event will honor the hard work, dedication and professional accomplishments of CSUSB’s Black faculty and staff. Honorees will be recognized on Sept. 25 from 3-5 p.m. at the Obershaw Dining Room in the Alumni Center.
Acclaimed soprano and CSUSB Opera Theatre director Stacey Fraser is celebrating a standout year, earning Favorite Opera Singer in the San Francisco Classical Voice Audience Choice Awards and releasing two critically praised albums, “My Dancing Sweetheart” and “A Chaos of Light and Motion,” among other achievements.
Thomas Corrigan, professor of communication and media, spoke at a recent fundraiser for KVCR on the importance of local news media. Research, he said, has shown “that where local news disappears, corruption and polarization rise, voter participation falls, people feel less connected, and communities find themselves unprepared for crises.”
Johanna Smith (theatre arts), Ahlam Muhtaseb (communication and media), Brian Levin (criminal justice, emeritus) and Mahmood Nikbakhtzadeh (health science and human ecology) were mentioned in recent articles, James Fenelon (sociology) published a book review, and Michelle Russen (hospitality management/marketing), and Rachel Kanter (a graduate student in psychology) with Christina Hassija (professor of psychology and dean of the College of Social and Behavioral Science) published their research.
Award-winning filmmaker and CSUSB lecturer Johnny Coffeen is preparing to premiere his debut feature-length film, “The Avalanche.” Coffeen, whose journey includes a Student Academy Award for “The Swan Girl” and studying with acclaimed filmmaker David Lynch, shares his passion for cinema with CSUSB students while continuing to build a distinctive career in filmmaking.