Guillermo Escalante, Rafael Alamilla, Christopher Gentry and Jason Ng (kinesiology) and Eric Vogelsang (sociology) published a paper on weight discrimination among college students; Brian Levin (criminal justice) was interviewed about hate crimes.
Breanna Putman (biology) co-authored a paper on how ecotourism and the presence of humans affects animal behavior. She and her fellow researchers tested whether human clothing color affects how a particular lizard, the water anole, behaves.
The CSUSB community gathered on Dec. 16 to honor the memory of Abhishek Sudhesh, a graduate student from India, who was killed off campus on Thanksgiving Day. His family, in partnership with CSUSB, established a scholarship fund in Sudhesh’s name.
More than 1,100 students participated in CSUSB’s 19th December commencement during three graduation ceremonies on Dec. 7.
About 1,144 students are expected to participate in the ceremonies in Coussoulis Arena: 1,018 undergraduates and 126 graduate students.
Fourteen people died that day – five of them CSUSB alumni – and all were remembered during a memorial service at the university’s Peace Garden.
CSUSB’s College of Natural Sciences will hold a Day of Remembrance on Monday, Dec. 2, at the Peace Garden next to the Chemical Sciences building to honor the victims of the Dec. 2, 2015 mass shooting.
The College of Natural Sciences is celebrating the achievements of students who participated in an internship focused on stem-cell research with the “Ten Years of CIRM Bridges Successes" symposium, 1 p.m. Friday, Nov. 22, at the SMSU Theater.