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CSBS building, Faculty in the News
December 9, 2022

Brian Levin (criminal justice) was interviewed about topics related to hate crimes and extremism, and Tony Coulson (information and decision sciences) discussed a Cybersecurity Center federal grant aimed at training more students to be cybersecurity professionals.

U.S. Rep. Pete Aguilar (left) and students at the CSUSB Cybersecurity Center during a visit on Aug. 29.
December 8, 2022

With the grant, the CSUSB Cybersecurity Center will focus its efforts on cyber defense, cyber research and cyber operations at educational institutions across the country. The goal is to solve the cybersecurity workforce deficit, which is now estimated to be 700,000 skilled professionals.

Faculty in the News, JHBC
November 2, 2021

Meredith Conroy (political science) co-wrote a column on why Democrats’ strategy focusing on policy may be short-sighted, and Tony Coulson (information and decision sciences) discussed CSUSB’s Cybersecurity Center being awarded a $3 million National Security Agency grant.

Associate professor in information and decision sciences Vincent Nestler at whiteboard
October 27, 2021

The grant from the National Security Agency will be used to build up cyber talent in the region through a variety of methods, including apprenticeships.

October 6, 2021

CSUSB will offer a master of science in national cybersecurity studies, where students learn the technical skill of cybersecurity and intelligence analysis.

Faculty in the News
August 27, 2021

A paper co-authored by Donna Garcia (psychology) on the lack of ethnic minorities in ecology and evolutionary biology was cited in an article on methodological naturalism, and testimony before Congress by Tony Coulson (information and decision sciences) was mentioned in an article about the U.S. government hiring more cybersecurity professionals.

Tony Coulson
July 29, 2021

Tony Coulson, director of CSUSB’s Cybersecurity Center, testifies before Congress that the U.S. is in a crisis situation because of a 500,000 person shortage in the cyber workforce.

Faculty in the News
April 29, 2021

Tony Coulson (cybersecurity) was interviewed about the need for more cybersecurity programs to meet the job demands in the future, David Yaghoubian (history) discussed the latest developments in the U.S. effort to rejoin the multi-national Iranian nuclear agreement, and Brian Levin (criminal justice) provided insight into a new Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism report that anti-Asian hate crimes sharply increased again in the first quarter of 2021.

Faculty in the News
November 9, 2020

Tony Coulson (cybersecurity and information and decision sciences), Brian Levin (criminal justice) and Kim Cousins (chemistry and biochemistry) were included in recent news coverage.