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The CSUSB Honors Program offers high-achieving, motivated first-year to senior students the opportunity to study and explore the world around them.
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Crystal Rodriguez has always wanted to be a teacher, but the CSUSB alumna didn’t know how deep her passion was until she saw the teachers working close up. Their dedication is what inspired her to become a teacher.
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Four cybersecurity majors at Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico made their way to CSUSB to finish their studies after their campus was heavily damaged by Hurricane Maria.
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Anthropology assistant professor Arianna Huhn, who is director of the CSUSB Anthropology Museum, worked over the summer as a Smithsonian Fellow at the National Museum of Natural History’s annual Summer Institute for Museum Anthropology.
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David Yaghoubian (history) was interviewed about the Iranian nuclear agreement, and Brian Levin (criminal justice) discussed the latest FBI hate crime statistics.
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“HEAL,” by award-winning documentarian Adam Schomer, will be shown on Friday, Nov. 17, at 7 p.m., and Saturday, Nov. 18, at 2 p.m., in the CSUSB Palm Desert Campus' Indian Wells Theater.
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The 2017-18 academic year marks history professor Robert “Bob” Blackey’s 50th and final year of teaching at CSUSB, the first faculty member at the university to reach this milestone.
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Ancient Egypt is more than a history subject for CSUSB assistant professor Kate Liszka. It’s also a great means of learning about where the world has come from, said Liszka, who is the Pamela and Benson Harer Fellow specializing in Egyptology.
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The region’s top business leaders were recognized at the Inland Empire Center for Entrepreneurship’s annual Spirit of the Entrepreneur Awards banquet on Wednesday, Nov. 14, at the Riverside Convention Center.