Leonard Transportation Center faculty Kimberly Collins, Yunfei Hou and Raffi Der Wartanian, with graduate students Sai Kalyan Ayyagari and Bhavik Pankaj Khatri, published a study for the journal Data in Brief; Mike Stull (entrepreneurship) discussed the opening of the Palm Desert Entrepreneur Resource Center; and Michael Karp (history) coordinated the 20th annual Academic WorldQuest competition.
The newly expanded resource will serve as a catalyst for the creation of new businesses and the growth of existing small businesses in the Coachella Valley.
Michelle Russen (hospitality management/marketing) worked with a team to publish a study on masculine and feminine leadership traits in hospitality managers, and Mike Stull (entrepreneurship) was interviewed for the radio program “Southern California Business Report.”
An art news website featured a question-and-answer interview with Daisy Ocampo Diaz (history) about the UCLA Fowler Museum exhibit she helped curate, “Fire Kinship: Southern California Native Ecology and Art.” Also interviewed for a Q-and-A was Michael Stull (entrepreneurship) on the topic of the newest Entrepreneurial Resources Center in Palm Desert.
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.
Highlighted in various media is the work of Daisy Ocampo Diaz (history), Sishi Wu (criminal justice), Lisa Looney (child development), Yunfei Hou (computer science and engineering), Miranda McIntyre (psychology), Jesus Herrera (information and decision science), Hani Aldirawi (mathematics), Montgomery Van Wart (public administration), Eric Vogelsang (sociology), Jacob D. Jones (psychology) and Fabian A. Borges (political science).
Cal State San Bernardino accounting students learn to prepare taxes by volunteering in the VITA program on Saturdays and Thursdays from Feb. 1 through April 5.
CSUSB’s criminal justice and MBA online programs continue to be ranked among the top programs in the nation – and in California – by the highly regarded U.S. News & World Report.
Jerrold Coakley, senior vice president at Stater Bros. Markets, has been appointed the chair, and Bud Weisbart, co-owner and vice president of A&R Tarpaulins, Inc., has been appointed as vice chair of the Jack H. Brown College of Business & Public Administration Advisory Board.