Students were presented with nursing pins by CSUSB nursing faculty and were joined by an audience of family, friends and various CSUSB faculty, staff and administrators.
Family, friends and former coworkers joined the university community for the annual Day of Remembrance, hosted by CSUSB’s College of Natural Sciences, of which five of the 14 were alumni of the Department of Biology and Department of Health Science.
The Day of Remembrance to honor the memory of 14 individuals, including five CSUSB College of Natural Sciences alumni, lost during the 2015 mass shooting in San Bernardino, will be held at 3 p.m. at the university’s Peace Garden, next to the Chemical Sciences building.
CSUSB student Nathan Kelly earned the Best Student Poster Presentation Award at the 11th annual IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics (DSAA) in San Diego. The conference marked the end of the Data Science Career Pathways in the Inland Empire Project, which has supported undergraduate students' research and helped build the new data science degree programs at CSUSB.
The APNA honored nine extraordinary nurses from across the country in the field of psychiatric-mental health at their 2024 conference for their “exceptional contributions to improve mental health outcomes through prevention, education, leadership, community efforts and science-based treatment.”
Carol Hood, who taught in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, served as the director of the Murillo Family Observatory for many years. While she is now the new associate dean in the College of Natural Sciences, astronomy and astrophysics remains her first love.
To meet California’s increasing demand for computer science educators, CSUSB’s School of Computer Science and Engineering developed a certificate in computer science for K-12 educators with an expected start date of spring 2025.
Qingquan Sun, a professor in the School of Computer Science and Engineering, was also recognized for his work to promote and support research by his students, a number of whom are from underrepresented backgrounds studying in the STEM disciplines.
Former astronaut and physicist Kathryn C. Thornton was the guest speaker for the College of Natural Sciences’ Gerald M. Scherba Lecture Series, which took place via livestream and in-person at the John M. Pfau Library. Thornton delighted the audience with humorous and fascinating anecdotes and insights from her illustrious career at NASA.