Articles tagged with 'CHABSS' | CSUSM

Reaching one’s fifth decade of life usually equates to slowing down to some degree. But when you’re working, nay fighting, for equality and inclusion, changing paces isn’t necessarily an option.While busy is the new normal for nearly everyone, meet A...

The funny thing about redemption is that it can look completely different depending on the lens in which it’s viewed.Quan Huynh was sentenced to 15 years-to-life for the murder of a fellow gang member in Los Angeles in 1999. He served 16, turning his...

While many artists work in various mediums, most excel in just one.So when famed Korean multidisciplinary artist Dohee Lee agreed to a short residency at Cal State San Marcos, it made sense that she wholeheartedly agreed to showcasing her multitude o...

When they were 14 in Taiwan, Ching-Ming Cheng and Janet Kao were friends who shared a passion for learning music and the many ways it can be used to convey stories and emotions.They went their separate ways after high school, easily losing touch in a...

While Ricardo Scheller was studying at Palomar College during the late 1980s, he heard about a new university being built just around the corner.Once he read a newspaper article about it being a reality, he went to the closest public library to get a...

The third Arts & Lectures event of the spring semester features Cal State San Marcos music professor Dr. Ching-Ming Cheng, an award-winning piano virtuoso who has wowed audiences around the world, presenting a piano recital alongside pianist Dr. Jane...

The second Arts & Lectures event of the spring semester features stroke survivor Bruce Heimbach.  The event is at 6 p.m., Feb. 22 in the USU Ballroom. The event is free for Cal State San Marcos students, faculty, staff and alumni. Community members c...

“Call it From the Mountain,” an art exhibition by Cal State San Marcos students, faculty and community, is currently on display and runs through April 6 in the School of Arts gallery.The exhibition, which showcases sculpture from students’ creative a...

As an undergraduate at UCSD, Jason Magabo Perez was a B-/C+ student in his English courses.More comfortable with patterns and consistencies in math, he struggled with writing composition in particular. He eventually earned a bachelor’s degree in poli...

Daniel Bennett stepped onto Cal State San Marcos’ campus knowing that this was his second chance. Not only for himself, but for his 8-year-old daughter, Analise.Formerly incarcerated, Bennett was 26 and felt like he didn’t have many options. But he k...

Seemingly every time Ali Turanli checks his Instagram feed this week, a fresh nightmare awaits him.One moment, it will be someone from his native Turkey posting footage from an abrupt funeral that wasn’t supposed to happen. The next, it will be a per...

Five Cal State San Marcos students have received scholarships from a local women’s organization.At its annual scholarships awards lunch on Jan. 11, North County Women in Networking (NCWIN) gave $3,000 scholarships to five female students: Selena Agui...

The first Arts & Lectures event of the spring semester features pianist Daniel Adam Maltz. The concert will take place Feb. 6 in Arts 111. The event is free for Cal State San Marcos students, who can reserve tickets online. Faculty, staff, alumni and...

Cal State San Marcos history professor Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall has been honored with the most prestigious award that faculty can receive in the California State University system.Sepinwall was announced Tuesday as one of five winners of the Wang F...

As the end of the year approaches, many are already looking ahead to 2023.But before putting the finishing touches on your list of New Year’s resolutions, let’s take a look back at some of the most-talked-about stories of 2022. CSUSM Ranks First in t...

Gloria Pindi Nziba, a Cal State San Marcos associate professor of communication, has won a national award for her published article in the field of feminist and gender studies within the communication discipline.Pindi is the recipient of the 2022 OSC...

Students in a Cal State San Marcos anthropology class this semester worked with a nonprofit organization that serves homeless people in San Diego, in the process developing a deeper understanding of their lived experience.The course ANTH 460: Questio...

It’s difficult for Kasandra Balsis to count the ways that Cal State San Marcos history professor Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall has helped her in her academic journey.When Balsis entered CSUSM’s history master’s program in the fall of 2020, the virtual f...

Kim Pulvers was a doctoral student in clinical psychology at the University of Kansas in the early 2000s when she first encountered a statistic that floored her.Every year, almost half a million people die from the effects of cigarette smoking, which...

It was the home that her parents had built, that she had lived in since third grade, that contained all of the countless memories she had accumulated across the decades.  When that house on Mussey Grade Road in Ramona burned down in the Cedar Fire in...

Like most of the theater students at Cal State San Marcos, Elizabeth Barron entered the university wanting to be an actor. Truth be told, like most of her fellow theater students, Barron didn’t know much about what other jobs could even be pursued in...

The seventh Arts & Lectures event of the fall semester features David Weiner, a filmmaker, editor and writer. The event is at 6 p.m. on Nov. 7 in the USU Ballroom. The event is free for Cal State San Marcos students, faculty, staff and alumni. Commun...

California’s water year begins every Oct. 1, and as this month started, the state put a distressing cap on the driest three-year period in its history.  Alarming signs of drought are everywhere, from the early loss of snowpack in the Sierra Nevada mo...

Editor’s note: This story originally ran in NewsCenter on June 27, when One (pronounced “OH-KNEE”) Reks went by the name Ashton Lawson. On Thursday at the All Peoples Luncheon, Reks was named the winner of the annual President’s Student Champion Awar...

The fifth Arts & Lectures event of the fall semester features Dr. Ana Muñiz, an assistant professor at UC Irvine and a scholar-activist from Arizona’s borderland region. The event is at 6 p.m. on Oct. 17 in the USU Ballroom. The event is free for Cal...

Joely Proudfit, chair of the American Indian studies department at Cal State San Marcos, is serving as a consultant for a Native-themed, animated children’s show that will debut on Netflix next week.Proudfit is the Native production consultant for “S...

The third Arts & Lectures event of the fall semester features Ariana Brown, a queer, Black, Mexican American poet. The event is at 5:30 p.m. on Oct. 6 on Zoom. The event is free for Cal State San Marcos students, faculty, staff, alumni and community ...

The second Arts & Lectures event of the fall semester features Ran Tal, an acclaimed Israeli documentary filmmaker.  The event is at 6 p.m. on Oct. 3 in the USU Ballroom. The event is free for Cal State San Marcos students, faculty, staff and alumni....

The first Arts and Lectures event of the fall semester features Ilyasah Shabazz, the third daughter of the late Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz. The event is at 6 p.m. on Sept. 20 in the USU Ballroom. The event is free for Cal State San Marcos studen...

A documentary by Ran Tal, a visiting professor in Cal State San Marcos’ art, media and design department, was featured in the prestigious Telluride Film Festival earlier this month.Tal’s documentary, “1341 Frames of Love and War,” is about celebrated...