With nearly a 40-year career in law enforcement, San Bernardino County Sheriff and CSUSB alumnus Shannon Dicus credits his college education for not only helping to develop his leadership skills, but also a better, more well-rounded understanding of life.
Thomas McWeeney (public administration) was interviewed about steps schools could take to be safer, Brian Levin (criminal justice) was quoted in an article about a man sentenced in the shooting death of a gay teen, and Pablo Gómez (psychology) was part of a team researchers that published a study on masked priming.
Meredith Conroy (political science) was quoted in an article about presumptive presidential candidates who don’t officially announce they are running for the office, and Yawen Li (social work) led a CSUSB research team on a study of the use of adult daycare services for older adults.
Marc Robinson (history) was interviewed about his forthcoming book, “Washington State Rising, Black Power on Campus in the Pacific Northwest,” which shines a light on the Black Power movement in his hometown of Seattle and the Pacific Northwest.
“From Rhetoric to Action: Police Reform in a ‘Post’ Racialized America,” by Thaddeus L. Johnson, a former ranking law enforcement official in Memphis who is now an assistant professor of criminal justice and criminology at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University, will be presented at 1 p.m. on Zoom.
Jewish communal service professor emeritus Steven Windmueller presented “Reflections on a Revolution: Unpacking 21st Century American Judaism” at the 2023 Rabbi Hillel Cohn Lecture Series on the Contemporary Jewish Experience.
Angela Clark-Louque (education) will be honored at the Leading While Female Conference this weekend, the research of Matteo Crismani (physics and astronomy) will be part of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Martian Moons eXploration mission, and Annika Anderson (sociology) and Rigaud Joseph (social work) led the CSUSB Project Rebound team in a study of career building among formerly incarcerated college graduates.
News of Montgomery Van Wart (public administration) being named the 2022-23 Outstanding Professor and the work of Brian Levin (criminal justice) through the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism was included in recent news coverage, and research by Nerea Marteache (criminal justice) on the illicit removal of downed redwood trees from a state park was recently published.
Yale professor Daniel Mattingly will discuss the “Chinese State Media and Its Global Audience” at the next Modern China Lecture, which will be presented in person and virtually.