![Naim Aburaddi (right) and Ahlam Muhtaseb, professor of media studies, at the CSUSB spring 2022 commencement ceremony on May 21.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/upload/image/NewsSlide_Naim_PhD_27May2022.jpg.webp?itok=NbFjDNuf)
Naim Aburaddi, has had an amazing academic career leading up to his acceptance into the prestigious doctoral program in media studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder, where he will study the digital media’s misrepresentation of Palestinians, Arabs, Muslims and other Indigenous communities.
![Students who participated in the educational videos](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/upload/image/NewsSlide_SBSOvideos_26May2022.png.webp?itok=YNI0dpRB)
Thanks to a close partnership with the San Bernardino Symphony Orchestra, CSUSB music students demonstrated their skills on camera as part of the orchestra’s Music in the Schools program.
![Visual Arts, Faculty in the News](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/upload/image/Faculty-in-the-News-Art_3.jpg.webp?itok=MduKbHjf)
Oraib Mango (world languages and literatures) collaborates with elementary school teacher William Beshears to present smARTshow at RAFFMA, and Brian Levin (criminal justice) was interviewed on topics related to the Buffalo mass shooting and hate and extremism.
![Jacqueline Avila](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/upload/image/MicrosoftTeams-image%20%284%29_0.png.webp?itok=LJoC_cgh)
The May 26 presentation by Jacqueline Avila, associate professor in musicology at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, will examine the EDM group MIS and Netflix’s Latinx-focused dramady “Gentefied.”
![Fourth grader shows off her project](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/upload/image/22_5368_RAFFMA%20smARTshow.png.webp?itok=cQgTOKMQ)
The Robert and Frances Fullerton Museum of Art at CSUSB presents smARTshow, a conceptual art exhibit featuring fourth-grade work from students at Manuel A. Salinas Creative Arts Elementary School. An opening reception will be on Friday, May 20.
![From left, Naim Aburaddi and Ferris Strachan](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/upload/image/NewsSlide_CAL_OutstandingStudents_Aburradi_Strachan__May2022.jpg.webp?itok=QLlUqazP)
Naim Aburaddi, communication studies major, is the Outstanding Graduate Student, and Ferris Strachan, liberal studies major, is the Outstanding Undergraduate.
![David Garcia-Tlahuel](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/upload/image/NewsSlide_PDC_OutstandingStudent_GarciaTlahuel_May2022.jpg.webp?itok=i5DAeRU7)
Cal State San Bernardino’s Palm Desert Campus has named David Garcia-Tlahuel as its Outstanding Undergraduate Student for 2022.
![CSUSB president donates artwork to the USSC](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/upload/image/NewsSlide_USSC_CalaverasDonatio_16May2022.jpg.webp?itok=4nQJKbvx)
President Tomás D. Morales donated a beaded calavera (skull), made by art student Valeria Vargas, to the CSUSB Undocumented Student Success Center, which he purchased during a Día de los Muertos celebration and auction last November.
![The outside of RAFFMA](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/upload/image/RAFFMA-50th-annual-student-exhibit-CSUSB-Homepage-Slide.jpg.webp?itok=hBxpUeRs)
Original CSUSB undergraduate student artwork will be on display at the Robert and Frances Fullerton Museum of Art from May 13-June 25. An awards ceremony will be held on Friday, May 13, at 6 p.m., followed by a reception at 7 p.m.