“In Conversation with Drs. Paloma Villegas (CSUSB Sociology) and Dylan Rodriguez (Dept. of Black Study & Media and Cultural Studies, UCR)” takes place at noon Wednesday, Feb. 26, on Zoom. The program is free and open to the public.
CSUSB Palm Desert Campus alumna Rhian Reyes was born and raised in the Coachella Valley and works as a campaign organizer at Audubon California in Palm Desert, where her work focuses on community outreach, organizing and education.
The event, which took place at the CSUSB Palm Desert Campus, was facilitated and coordinated by Michael Karp, an assistant professor of history at the Palm Desert Campus and member of the board of directors of the World Affairs Council of the Desert.
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.
Cal State San Bernardino’s continuing series resumes at noon Wednesday, Feb. 19, when it hosts Amy Barden, chief of Seattle’s Community Assisted Response & Engagement Department, a public safety agency that assists police officers on calls involving people experiencing crisis or behavioral health challenges.
Stacey Ortiz, program specialist for the Doctorate in Educational Leadership program, will help lead the conference in Anchorage, Alaska, in March. NACADA is an association that consists of professional advisors, counselors, faculty, administrators and students who work together to enhance the educational development of students.
Michael Karp (history) will host the Academic World Quest competition Feb. 13 at the CSUSB Palm Desert Campus and Brian Levin (criminal justice, emeritus) was interviewed for an article about what may have motivated a 17-year-old Antioch (Tenn.) High School student to fatally shoot a classmate.
Dorothy Chen-Maynard (health science and human ecology) was interviewed about the temblor that shook the San Bernardino area on Feb, 10. And the following faculty recently published studies: Miranda M. McIntyre (psychology), Yunfei Hou (computer science and engineering), Rajrani Kalra (geography and environmental studies), Nicholas Brunet (psychology) and Christina Hassija (psychology).
The spring semester lineup of speakers will present their research on a range of topics, from the Hollywood glamour of Anna May Wong, to the history of transgender people in China, to the future of Hong Kong. The talks, which begin with a presentation on Feb. 19 by Howard Chiang, will be presented in person and on Zoom.