Articles tagged with 'Students' | CSUSM

In celebration of Asian Pacific Islander Desi American Heritage Month, Cal State San Marcos’ Cross-Cultural Center is partnering with campus organizations to present an exciting lineup of events.  Everyone is invited to participate in the following e...

Two earnestly optimistic friends and colleagues reimagine the physics industry to be disciplines comprised of brilliant scientists, who are also inclusive and empathetic.  Caroline Caplan, a cosmochemist and Sara Belontz, an environmental geoscientis...

Diana Llamas knows the importance of mental health. It’s one of the driving forces behind her desire to work as a researcher in the pharmaceutical industry.Llamas, a third-year biochemistry student at Cal State San Marcos, is getting a head start on ...

March is Women’s Herstory Month, a national observation of the valuable contributions women make to our culture and society. Cal State San Marcos has scheduled a month of programs to showcase the accomplishments of women in history and provide opport...

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...

Cal State San Marcos will host the Women’s Leadership Symposium on Saturday, March 4, providing participants an opportunity to connect, explore and engage in topics pertaining to women’s leadership and empowerment.  All CSUSM students are encouraged ...

Cal State San Marcos is expanding by five the number of school districts at which students are guaranteed admission if they meet certain criteria.CSUSM President Ellen Neufeldt will sign a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with five new school distri...

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...

A small farm in Encinitas is now a little more beautiful, thanks to a group of students from Cal State San Marcos.Last fall, students in the art, media and design class “Art and Social Change” completed a beautification project with community partner...

February is Black Excellence Month at Cal State San Marcos.The theme for the month this year is “Continuing the Legacy of Black Brilliance.” The contributions of many across the African diaspora have helped to advance our world. This theme centers ou...

Cal State San Marcos has received a grant of $350,000 to provide support for seven California State University campuses that will collaborate to develop a plan to remove barriers to the success of transfer students.The grant is being funded by Colleg...

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...

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 was during her first year as an undergraduate student at Cal State San Marcos when Ayesha James heard a story from a professor about a recent incident in which an elementary school-aged child was not allowed to bring their loaned Alternative and A...

Cal State San Marcos has received a grant of $137,500 as it sets out on a nearly two-year road that it hopes will culminate in receiving a coveted national certification for excellence in serving Latinx students.CSUSM was announced as one of 17 award...

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...

Cal State San Marcos physics student Ashley Corey was awarded best research by an undergraduate student at the American Physical Society Far West Section’s Annual Meeting at the University of Manoa Hawaii for her presentation, “Characterizing Gate De...

Christa Wencl never considered a career in supporting sexual assault victims until she took a class while attending St. Cloud State University in Minnesota. It wasn’t the class she was most interested in at the time, but it was the one that changed h...

Cal State San Marcos electrical engineering student Sean Resor (he/him) walks into each of his many roles with a kind heart, helpful hand and open-minded ear, which allows him to pave his own path to success and build steady foundations for future ge...

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 final Arts & Lectures event of the fall semester features bio-artist Paul Vanouse and scientist Solon Morse. There is a student workshop on Nov. 16 at 9:30 a.m. followed by a public lecture at noon. Students interested in participating in the wor...

Cal State San Marcos professor and anthropological archaeologist Jon Spenard developed a series of hands-on activities to teach his students about first-century technologies.  Spenard invited Nick Hearth, senior archaeologist for Michael Baker Intern...

A new program funded by a grant from the U.S. Department of Education will support Cal State San Marcos students with young children. CSUSM has received a four-year grant of more than $3 million that will benefit student parents who need child-care a...

Efforts to ban books deemed controversial in some way are essentially as old as literature itself.Authors whose work has been banned across history include such literary icons as Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe and William Shakespeare, and titles t...

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...

Four students boldly yet vulnerably stared into an audience of over 100 Cal State San Marcos faculty, staff and students in the USU Ballroom for what would be the first of many tough conversations in the hopes of “getting uncomfortable to get comfort...

Cal State San Marcos next week will hold its signature event as the culmination of national Domestic Violence Awareness Month.The DV Vigil and Speak-Out has been held each October since 2014 as a time for the CSUSM campus to come together and honor t...

For individuals who want to accelerate their progress toward a degree, Cal State San Marcos is offering a wide range of courses to the community during Winter Intersession 2023. Featuring compressed timelines, these courses enable individuals to earn...