![Emmanuel Gaeta -- Hispanic Heritage Month look-back story](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/upload/image/NewsSlide_CNS_EmmanuelGaeta_HHM_14Oct2020.jpg.webp?itok=9CFyxcci)
CSUSB alumnus Emmanuel Gaeta credits a CSUSB campus support network for helping him pursue his goal to become the first doctor in his family.
![Brian Esser (left) and Kelly Schoenfeld hold up a map of the U.S. with pins in every city where their customers are using their Lightning MD software.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/upload/image/NewsSlide_PDC_Alumni_Kelly%20Schoenfeld%20and%20Brian%20Esser_14Sept2020.jpg.webp?itok=X_37lTzn)
Kelly Schoenfeld and Brian Esser were out singing karaoke one night about five years ago when they decided to start what is now ESC Medical Billing. That resulted in a second business, Lightning MD, that launched in February.
![Faculty in the News](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/upload/image/NewsSlide_FacultyInTheNews_Sept2020_0.jpg.webp?itok=0pzUT-K0)
Stuart Sumida (biology) is one of the animation experts who will speak at Teesside University’s internationally renowned Animex festival. Now in its 21st year, the festival will take place virtually.
![The CSUSB Palm Desert Campus Street Medicine program (left) and laptop computers to support remote learning will benefit from a Verizon Foundation grant.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/upload/image/VerizonGrant.jpg.webp?itok=oMaDMqOr)
The Verizon Foundation grant will support the CSUSB Palm Desert Campus Street Medicine program and will be used to purchase and loan laptops to students during the pandemic.
![An artist’s rendering of what Centaur SW1 would look like](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/upload/image/NewsSlide_CNS-LauraWoodneyComets_17Aug2020.jpg.webp?itok=4yocgKz3)
Physics and astronomy professor Laura Woodney , along with others, is advancing research that could reveal information about “Centaurs” – little-known icy bodies with the characteristics of both comets and TNOs – and lead to new discoveries about our solar system.
![Emmanuel Gaeta when he was AMSA president at Cal State San Bernardino.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/upload/image/NewsSlide_CNS_EmmanuelGaeta1%28AMSA%29_27July2020.jpg.webp?itok=EDuBE4vs)
CSUSB alumnus Emmanuel Gaeta credits a CSUSB campus support network for helping him pursue his goal to become the first doctor in his family.
![The highly regarded CSUSB Department of Nursing RN to BSN track is a hybrid-online plan of study](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/upload/image/Nursing_RN_BSN_BB0U0533.jpg.webp?itok=Y0AcBysU)
CSUSB’s online RN-BSN nursing program has been listed as one of the state’s best – ranked No. 4 – according to RegisteredNursing.org.
![Faculty in the News](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/upload/image/NewsSlide_FacultyInTheNews_June2020_18.jpg.webp?itok=CxtfJTFh)
Lorraine Hedtke (psychology), Meredith Conroy (political science), Julie Paegle (English), Francisca Beer (finance), Jason Ng (kinesiology) and Brian Levin (criminal justice) were included in recent news coverage.
![CSUSB's Exercise is Medicine wins gold](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/upload/image/Exercise-is-Medicine-Banner.gif.webp?itok=coTRw9XV)
CSUSB’s Exercise is Medicine program has healthcare providers and exercise professionals working together using physical activity to prevent and treat maladies.