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CSUSB professor wrote Op-Ed ‘How corporate tech threatens academic freedom’
Middle East Eye
Oct. 22, 2020
Ahlam Muhtaseb, CSUSB media studies professor and director of the university’s Center for Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, wrote an op-ed about how corporate tech threatens academic freedom.
Amid intense pressure from pro-Zionist groups in the U.S., Zoom and other companies recently silenced a San Francisco State University webinar featuring Palestinian activist Leila Khaled.
“What happened during a webinar by San Francisco State University professors Rabab Abdulhadi and Tomomi Kinukawa last month took this policing and silencing to a dangerous new level,” Muhtaseb wrote.
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CSUSB Palm Desert Campus faculty member works to save historic Black churches through technology
The Desert Sun
Oct. 23, 2020
This past March, Lacey Kendall, a local broadcaster, media consultant and faculty member at the Cal State San Bernardino Palm Desert Campus saw a need to help local churches and called upon friends to help put together a durable, affordable, easy-to-install and easy-to-operate system that would help churches stream to their congregations during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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CSUSB associate professor recipient of cancer researcher award
Highland Community News
Oct. 22, 2020
Claudia Davis, an associate professor in the Cal State San Bernardino Department of Nursing has been awarded the 2020 Minority and Minority Serving Institution Faculty Scholar in Cancer Research by the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR).
Davis, who joined CSUSB in 2012, received the award during the 2020 AACR Virtual Conference on the Science of Cancer Health Disparities in Racial/Ethnic Minorities and the Medically Underserved, which was held from Oct. 2-4. The AACR is the world’s oldest and largest professional organization dedicated to advancing cancer research.
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