Presented by the Office of Student Research (OSR) in collaboration with Academic Research and Graduate Studies, CSUSB's Research Week will be held on Monday, April 7th - Friday, April 11th, 2025. Encompassing a week of activities to celebrate the research and scholarly achievements of faculty and students across campus in all disciplines. We invite everyone to attend and see all the amazing things happening on campus. For individual event day information and times, please see the information below.
Schedule of Events
Tuesday, April 8th, 2025
Eighth Annual Principal Investigator Recognition Reception
Time: 4:00pm - 6:00pm
Location: San Manuel Student Union South (SMSU) Events Center
Description: This annual event will honor and celebrate the successes of our colleagues who engaged in extramural grant activities by submitting proposals and receiving grant awards in the past year. The theme of this year’s event, “Guiding Lights of Research,” reflects our continued commitment to sponsored programs which bring the resources to support extraordinary research of our faculty and provide funding for many services benefiting our students and local community.
Kindly note this event is by invitation only.
For questions, please contact Jessica Carrillo at Jessica.carrilo@csusb.edu.
Wednesday, April 9th, 2025
Grad Slam
Time: 5:00pm - 7:00pm
Location: San Manuel Student Union South (SMSU), Theater
Description: Join the Office of Graduate Studies for our university-wide Grad Slam! Watch as our students present their timely, and provoking graduate work. The catch? They have to do it in three minutes or less to a non-expert audience and a panel of community judges. The winners will be awarded prize money and move on to the CSU-side competition!
Learn more by visiting Graduate Studies' website [click here]
For questions, please contact Megan Kinnally at megan.kinnally@csusb.edu
Mellon Mays Special Keynote Address: "The War at Home: Politics of the Black Left during the Neoliberal Turn" by Broderick Dunlap
Time: 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Location: Online via Zoom
Speaker Bio: Broderick Dunlap is a distinguished scholar from Riverside, California, with an extensive academic background in history and African American studies from La Sierra University, UCLA, and Johns Hopkins University. A committed activist and labor organizer, Dunlap has been at the forefront of significant research initiatives, including “Archiving the Age of Mass Incarceration” with UCLA’s Million Dollar Hoods Project and the California Reparations Task Force. Recognized as a “Changemaker for Justice and Equity” by UCLA College Magazine, his work delves into the history of Black political movements, emphasizing the intersections of race, class, and power struggles. Currently a Ph.D. candidate at Johns Hopkins, his research sheds light on the dynamics of political and economic trends in the history of the United States.
Description: Join us for a compelling keynote address by Broderick Dunlap on the evolution of radical and progressive political movements during the 1980s—a pivotal era marked by the neoliberal shift that emphasized individualism over community and market solutions over collective action. This talk will delve into how these movements provided a voice for the often-ignored concerns of poor and working-class African Americans, challenging the narratives that have long obscured the root causes of racial and economic injustices. "The War at Home" offers a critical reexamination of Black political activism in the 1980s and its lasting significance in today's social movements.
For questions or special accommodations related to this event, please email osr@csusb.edu.
For questions, please contact OSR at osr@csusb.edu
Thursday, April 10th, 2025
14th Annual "Meeting of the Minds" Student Research Symposium
Time: 10:30am - 5:30pm
Location: San Manuel Student Union North (SMSU), and Center for Global Intelligence (CGI Rooms 111-115)
Description: At the "Meeting of the Minds" Student Research Symposium, CSUSB graduate, undergraduate, and alumni students have the opportunity to showcase their research and creative activities (RSCA) through oral, poster, and creative presentations.
For questions, please contact OSR at osr@csusb.edu
Event Landing Page: https://www.csusb.edu/student-research/events-and-calendar/meeting-minds
RSVP to Attend Meeting of the Minds on Coyote Connection
Keynote Speaker, Dr. Lúa López Perez "BLOOMING: My Journey from Spain to the US Preserving Biodiversity"
Time: 12:00pm - 1:20 pm
Location: San Manuel Student Union North Conference Center (SMSU), (In Person and Virtual via zoom)
Speaker Bio: Dr. Lua Lopez was born in a small city in Northern Spain where she spent most of her time in contact with nature. Her intrinsic curiosity and love for the outdoors led her to obtain a bachelor's degree in Biology from the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain). During her undergraduate studies, she had the opportunity to spend one year abroad at the University of Azores (Portugal), where she joined a research lab. This experience showed her how to unite her passion for preserving our natural environment and her need to understand how ecosystems work. She obtained her PhD from the University of A Coruña (Spain), focusing on understanding the genetic limitations of endangered plant species to survive changes in their environment. After her PhD, she had the chance to work in research-leading institutions like Heidelberg University (Germany), Pennsylvania State University (US), and Binghamton University (SUNY). These experiences helped her become an expert in bioinformatics, ancient genomics, and science-based pedagogy. This journey around the world led her to CSUSB, where she combines her teaching and research interests while working with some of the most amazing students she has ever met.
Description: Dr. Lúa López is an evolutionary ecologist focused on understanding how surrounding ecological environments have evolutionary consequences on species. During her talk she will walk us through her scientific journey from Spain, passing through several European countries to the US; always focused on preserving our natural environment and species biodiversity that are threatened by environmental changes associated to human activities. Providing research opportunities for students and communicating with potential future scientists has been a major motivation in her professional journey. This seminar will showcase multiple examples on how students have help shaped her research agenda
FREE Lunch will be provided for those who attend in-person (while supplies last)
For questions, please contact OSR at osr@csusb.edu
RSVP to Attend MOTM Keynote Event
Friday, April 11th, 2025
California Semiconductor Workforce Innovation for Tomorrow Symposium
Time: 9:00am - 3:00pm
Location: San Manuel Student Union South (SMSU) and Center for Global Innovation (CGI)
Description: Building an accelerated workforce supply chain for emerging technologies requires collaboration and partnerships among education, industry, and government to rapidly train and educate workers for the rapidly evolving semiconductor industry across the US. Join us for a conversation on workforce development in the Quantum Age.
Event Page: https://www.csusb.edu/student-research/events-and-calendar/calswift25
For questions, please contact OSR at osr@csusb.edu
Thursday, April 17th, 2025
OSR Recognition and Awards Luncheon
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: Visual Arts Patio
Description: This OSR Recognition luncheon is held to honor faculty who mentor students and acknowledge the students for their achievements in research and creative activities.
For questions, please contact OSR at osr@csusb.edu