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CSUSB professor gets research grant
IE Business Daily
Dec. 8, 2024

Leslie Amodeo, associate professor of psychology at Cal State San Bernardino, has received a $732,484 grant from the National Institutes of Health to study the relationship between attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, stimulant medication, and sleep. Amodeo will use the four-year grant to help determine whether this treatment helps or hinders sleep disturbances, and the development of sleep-related disorders later in life.

LGBTQ+, fat and disabled characters combined only make up 10% of film roles, study finds
The Wrap
Dec. 3, 2024

Meredith Conroy, CSUSB professor of political science and vice president of research and insights for the Geena Davis Institute, was one of the featured speakers at TheWrap’s 2024 Power Women Summit in Los Angeles on Tuesday. She was part of a panel that presented a study by the institute, “Charting Progress in Film Diversity,” which examined children’s and family programming to “better understand the influence of media on young audiences who are most vulnerable to media effects.”

CSUSB's master of social work program in Palm Desert earns accreditation, applications open
Desert Sun
Dec. 8, 2024

Cal State San Bernardino’s Palm Desert Campus recently earned accreditation for its new master of social work program, marking a major milestone for the local graduate school.

"The first 19 students will graduate from the PDC MSW program in May 2025, and we could not be more proud of their commitment to social work and to the valley they call home," said Deirdre Lanesskog, director of CSUSB's School of Social Work.

"Our students are parents, caregivers and full-time employees, so providing a local option for grad school and a scholarship that covers close to half a year’s tuition is a game changer,” said Oscar Moreno-Castro, an academic adviser at CSUSB PDC who will graduate from the MSW program this year.

World’s priciest dinosaur fossil comes to Museum of Natural History
The New York Times
Dec. 5, 2024

Stuart Sumida, the president of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology and CSUSB professor of biology, was quoted in an article about a billionaire’s purchase at an auction of a stegosaurus fossil, which will be exhibited at the American Museum of Natural History in New York as part of loan agreement.

The auction also stoked fears among academic paleontologists that museums and universities were being priced out of their research field by well-heeled private collectors. After purchasing the stegosaurus, Griffin, the founder and chief executive of the hedge fund Citadel, said he intended to lend the specimen to an American institution so it would be available to scientists and the public.

Sumida said that “we have an internal ethics committee that is grappling with the situation right now.”

He said that the ethics committee would deliver a recommendation about how to handle loaned fossils like Apex as soon as early spring. “This is a new gray area for us,” he said.

California banned bilingual education for almost 20 years. It still hasn’t recovered
Cal Matters
Dec. 9, 2024

Barbara Flores (education, emeritus) was interviewed about the state of bilingual education in California. Among other things, the article mentioned that in 1987 she was helping build a bilingual-education teacher prep program at Cal State San Bernardino.

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