Yolonda Youngs, professor of geography and recipient the prestigious John Brinkerhoff Jackson Prize awarded by the Association of American Geographers, will present “Framing Nature: The Creation of an American Icon at the Grand Canyon.” This free event, open to the public, will take place at noon Tuesday, April 22, at the Faculty Center for Excellence.
The lecture series launches its spring semester talks with a presentation by Debora Perez Torres, assistant professor of communication studies, on Feb. 12. Also scheduled are presentations by Michelle Russen (marketing), Yolonda Youngs (geography) and Hannah Kivalahula-Uddin (education). All talks are free and open to the public.
Viktor Wang, professor of educational leadership and technology, spoke at the 2024 International Symposium on Interdisciplinary Linguistic Research, which was organized by Beijing Language and Culture University in Beijing.
Angela Clark-Louque (education) will be honored at the Leading While Female Conference this weekend, the research of Matteo Crismani (physics and astronomy) will be part of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Martian Moons eXploration mission, and Annika Anderson (sociology) and Rigaud Joseph (social work) led the CSUSB Project Rebound team in a study of career building among formerly incarcerated college graduates.
Angela Clark-Louque joined CSUSB in 2000 and had served as department chair of Educational Leadership and Technology.
Mildred Dalton Hampton-Henry (education, emeritus) was featured in an article about what makes a good education, and Nancy Acevedo (education) is one of 40 instructors nationwide who will participate in a project to research and test how digital software can help close student equity gaps.
Nancy Acevedo (education) was interviewed about “The Chicana/o/x Dream: Hope, Resistance, and Educational Success,” a book she co-authored, and Brian Levin (criminal justice) discussed the sharp increase in hate crimes between 2020 and 2021.
A memorial Mass will be held for Amy Leh, professor of education, on Friday, Dec. 10, at Our Lady of Assumption Church in San Bernardino.
Before coming to CSUSB in 2019, Hannah Kivalahula-Uddin (Puyallup) earned a Ph.D. in educational psychology, three master’s degrees in education, and worked for 20 years in P-12 Indian Education with the Puyallup Tribe’s Chief Leschi Schools in Puyallup, Wash.