![Cal State San Bernardino is expanding its music program with the CSUSB New Music Ensemble.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/upload/image/Ensemble_DA0G3629.jpg.webp?itok=aM5inbcs)
The CSUSB New Music Ensemble, led by music assistant professor Kevin Zhang, is a new course that will foster collaborations between music students and emerging Inland Empire composers.
![Kirsten Ashley Wiest, a part-time lecturer in the CSUSB Department of Music, will release her debut solo album “Luminous” on Sept. 4.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/upload/image/NewsSlide_Music_KirstenWeist_01Sept2020.jpg.webp?itok=Atz3G-h5)
Award-winning coloratura soprano, Kirsten Ashley Wiest, a part-time lecturer in the CSUSB Department of Music, will release her debut solo album internationally on Friday, Sept. 4.
![Two CSUSB students selected as 2020-21 Sally Casanova California Pre-Doctoral Scholars](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/upload/image/NewsSlide_CSU_SallyCasanovaScholars_Ortega-Burrell_02Sept2020_REVISE.jpg.webp?itok=xXPZ9hJW)
Out of 250 applicants and as part of the California Pre-Doctoral Program, CSUSB students Nora Nickoel Bianey Ortega and Shane Burrell are among the 77 Sally Casanova California Pre-Doctoral Scholars for 2020-21.
![Faculty in the News](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/upload/image/NewsSlide_FacultyInTheNews_Sept2020_3.jpg.webp?itok=SS8w4EIM)
Tony Coulson (information and decision sciences), Terri Nelson (world languages and literatures), Mike Stull (entrepreneurship), Brian Levin (criminal justice) and David Yaghoubian (history) were included in recent news coverage.
![Faculty in the News](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/upload/image/NewsSlide_FacultyInTheNews_Sep2020_2.jpg.webp?itok=nY83uJ79)
Meredith Conroy (political science), Mike Stull (entrepreneurship), Kevin Grisham (geography and environmental studies) and Stacey Fraser (music) are included in recent news coverage.
![Stacey Fraser, soprano and CSUSB professor of music, in “Still Life After Death.” The short film is now streaming on Amazon.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/upload/image/NewsSlide_StaceyFraser_AmazonFilm_ScreenCapture.JPG.webp?itok=oiSfgV4j)
Opera and theatrical performances executed on the stage and in the sand make up the avant-garde film “Still Life After Death,” an 11-minute short featuring soprano and CSUSB professor Stacey Fraser.
![Terri Nelson, professor of French in the World Languages and Literatures Department, has been selected for the California State University’s Faculty Innovation and Leadership Award.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/upload/image/NewsSlide_WLL_Nelson_CSU_FILA_24Aug2020_2.jpg.webp?itok=i2dZWxIi)
Terri Nelson is one of 25 CSU faculty and staff who were selected for the award, which honors those who have demonstrated extraordinary leadership to advance student success.
![Cal State San Bernardino will offer a new Criminal Justice Spanish Certificate program for students majoring in criminal justice professions beginning fall 2021.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/upload/image/BW_CriminalJustice_Illustration_Aug2020.jpg.webp?itok=0DtSNq-a)
CSUSB will offer a new Criminal Justice Spanish Certificate program for students majoring in criminal justice professions beginning fall 2021, thanks to a U.S. Department of Education’s Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Language program grant.
![Jess Block Nerren](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/upload/image/NewsSlide_02_Nerren_KopenhaverFellow_17Aug2020.jpg.webp?itok=G9p9TEPK)
Jess Block Nerren, full-time lecturer of communication studies, was selected as one of only 50 Kopenhaver Center Fellows nationwide by the AEJMC, an award given to primarily tenure-line faculty.