![Celebrate Homecoming 2020](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/upload/image/NewsSlide_CSUSB_Homecoming%40Home_Oct2020_2.jpg.webp?itok=ROXYevtd)
CSUSB students, alumni and community members will celebrate Homecoming 2020 virtually from Oct. 12-17. Attendees will enjoy fun competitions, family-friendly activities and opportunities to give back to the CSUSB community.
![CSUSB alumnus Adonis Galarza-Toledo (left) is sworn in as a member of the board of the Coachella Valley Unified School District.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/upload/image/NewsSlide_Alumni_Adonis_CoachellaValleySchoolBoard_HHM_06Oct2020.jpg.webp?itok=1EmHPUM-)
Alumnus Adonis Galarza-Toledo, ’20, who served as CSUSB’s ASI president, has been appointed to the Coachella Valley Unified School District Board.
![Kids that Code serves the Inland Empire by teaching children how to code, and other S.T.E.A.M. (science, technology, engineering, art, and math) projects.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/upload/image/NewsSlide_KidsThatCode_VidPromo_01Oct2020.jpg.webp?itok=ZFwD2xea)
Kids that Code provides a space for children of all ages to learn computer programming, game design, web development, and more.
![Racism as a public health crisis will be discussed at the next Conversations on Race and Policing at 4 p.m. on Wednesday.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/upload/image/NewsSlide_Lib-Hist_RaceAndPolicing_No18_28Sept2020.jpg.webp?itok=K2rhXOqe)
“Declaring Racism a Public Health Crisis: What It Means and Where Do We Go from Here,” a panel presentation, will take place virtually at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 30.
![Thomas Pierce](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/upload/image/NewsSlide_Tom_Pierce_Endowment_21Sept2020.jpg.webp?itok=DLMVPa0M)
Longtime supporters of CSUSB, husband and wife John Kennedy and Ann Kough, gifted $100,000 to endow a named scholarship in honor of Thomas Pierce for his dedication to students in the Department of Economics.
![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.
![Wild Song at the SMSU](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/upload/image/WildSong-SMSU_2017_14x7.jpg.webp?itok=GF2rAQ_S)
The award will be used to recruit and train 22 academic fellows per academic year from the CSUSB Undocumented Student Success Center, Office of Pre-College Programs, and 2020 alumni.
![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.
![Ken Sawa](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/upload/image/NewsSlide_Alumni_SBS_Sawa_VidPromo_01Sept2020.jpg.webp?itok=prwwwb3T)
Ken Sawa leads Catholic Charities in San Bernardino and Riverside counties.