The 12th annual Pioneer Breakfast celebrated community members, campus partners and student scholarship recipients on Feb. 28. Organized by the Black Faculty, Staff and Student Association, the event remains a key highlight of CSUSB’s Black History Month festivities.
Ahlam Muhtaseb (media studies) was interviewed for a feature on the “Phoenix of Gaza XR” project, David Yaghoubian (history) was a guest on “The Adnan Husain Show” to discuss the modern history of Iran, and Brian Levin (criminal justice, emeritus) was interviewed about the latest hate crime statistics.
Cal State San Bernardino celebrates Women’s History Month with a series of events and activities throughout March, including discussions on Indigenous and Black women’s history, social justice activism, storytelling and leadership. These programs, open to the public, aim to educate, empower and inspire the campus community.
Presented by the university’s James R. Watson and Judy Rodriguez Watson College of Education and the College of Natural Sciences, the free event will begin at 4 p.m. and run through 6 p.m. at the Obershaw Dining Room in the Alumni Center.
Publishing research recently were College of Social and Behavioral Sciences faculty Zachary Powell (criminal justice), Rachel Kanter (the supplemental instruction leader for psychology) and Christina Hassija (psychology, dean of the college), Jurgita Abromaviciute and Ethel Mickey (sociology), Jacob Jones (psychology), and Dionisio Amodeo (psychology).
CSUSB MBA alumnus Patrick Marshall, co-founder of the College Collaborative System, is now serving as vice president of the San Jose/Silicon Valley Branch of the NAACP and teaching criminal justice at Mission College. He remains dedicated to uniting people through education, advocacy and leadership.
Madeleine Hamlin is a Colgate University assistant professor of geography, whose work focuses on housing, policing, race, class and punishment in U.S. cities.
Brian McGowan is a lecturer in Disability Studies at Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH University) in Switzerland. His talk, free and open to the public, will take place on March 6 from 10-11:15 a.m. on Zoom.
Working with the theme, “Rights and Responsibilities,” students from fourth grade through high school senior will present their research-based history/social science-based projects in the Santos Manuel Student Union-South beginning at 8 a.m.
The California Student Aid Commission has extended the priority deadline from March 3 to April 2, giving California students and their contributors an additional 30 days to complete their Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) and the California Dream Act Application (CADAA).
The funding will launch four new allied health graduate degrees and support Hispanic and underserved students pursuing postbaccalaureate degrees in healthcare.
“The Phoenix of Gaza XR,” a virtual reality endeavor developed by Ahlam Muhtaseb, professor of communication and media studies, and her former student, was the topic of discussion on podcasts by Trevor Noah and WGBH’s “Culture Show.”