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Writers Ona Gritz and Daniel Simpson will be the featured speakers at the Third Annual Ability Awareness Fair in support of Global Disability Awareness Day on Tuesday, May 22.
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Kathie Pelletier, a professor of management who has taught at Cal State San Bernardino since 2008, has been named the recipient of the 2017-18 Golden Apple Award, the university’s highest award for teaching.
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Cal State San Bernardino graduate and undergraduate students will showcase their research and creative activities at the annual research symposium on Thursday, May 17.
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Hosted by CSUSB’s Women of Color in Academia, “A Seat at the Table: Intersectionality in Higher Education,” featured a panel discussion focusing on women of color in higher education and two surprise faculty awards.
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Jean Peacock (psychology) and Eri Yasuhara (world languages and literatures), the two founders of CSUSB’s University Faculty Mentoring Network were honored, and Brian Levin (criminal justice) was interviewed about a rarely prosecuted hate crime law.
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The Washington Post interviewed Brian Levin (criminal justice) about the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism’s latest study that showed crimes in the nation’s 10 largest cities increased by 12 percent last year.
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Arianna Huhn is the recipient of the Terence Ranger Award, given by the Journal of Southern African Studies to the author of the best article by an early career scholar.
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Steven Childs, a CSUSB assistant professor of political science, was quoted by the Filipino-American news site in an article about the ongoing conflict in the South China Sea between the Philippines and China.
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As an Alumni of Notable Achievement, Mariam is in exclusive company: only one percent of the college’s 157,000 alumni have received this distinction.