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Todd Johnson (music), Diane Vines (nursing), Kate Liszka (history), David Yaghoubian (history), Breena Coates (management) and Vipin Gupta (management) were included in recent news coverage.
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The Todd Johnson Percussion Endowment Fund, gifted by professor of music Todd Johnson, will support the operating needs of the CSUSB Percussion Ensemble and applied percussion courses.
![Stacey Fraser, CSUSB professor of music, soprano and the project director.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/upload/image/NewsSlide_StaceyFraser_NEAGrant_28May2021.jpg.webp?itok=Fn0Aw1Mk)
CSUSB has been approved for a grant by the National Endowment for the Arts to support the music department’s “New Frontiers: Multimedia Monodramas,” a project that focuses on aspects of new frontiers, California, diversity, women and the idea of the West.
![Nicholas Bratcher, CSUSB director of bands, conducts the Cal State San Bernardino Symphonic Band.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/upload/image/NewsSlide_Music_NicholasBratcher_csusbfallconcert_BaconAward_26Apr2021.jpg.webp?itok=d0rVJ4AD)
The CSUSB Symphonic Band has been named a semi-finalist for the Ernst Bacon Memorial Award for the Performance of American Music (College/University Division) for two March 2020 performances. The award is administered by the American Prize National Competition for the Performing Arts and is unique in its own right.
![CSUSB student William Parada plays his trumpet outside. Through a series of approved hybrid classes and safety precautions, the music lives on.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/upload/image/NewsSlide_virtualband_18Mar2021.jpg.webp?itok=GbN0o-cv)
The COVID-19 pandemic has certainly presented numerous challenges for the CSUSB music department, but that hasn’t stopped them from picking up their instruments.
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Tony Coulson (information and decision science) was interviewed about guarding against identity theft online, and Stacey Fraser (music) was included in a review about the newly released recording, “Voices of the Pearl Volume 3.”
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Sanders McDougall (psychology), David Yaghoubian (history) and Jessica Getman (music) were included in news coverage over the holiday weekend.
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Jessica Getman (music) has been appointed to the San Bernardino Symphony Orchestra board, and Anthony Silard (public administration) wrote about reducing anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Kirsten Ashley Wiest (music) releases her solo album, Kenneth Shultz (psychology) discussed factors people should consider before retiring, and Anthony Silard (public administration) wrote about the causes of loneliness.