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2023
March
29,
2023
| 10:42 AM America/Los_Angeles
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...
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March
27,
2023
| 14:18 PM America/Los_Angeles
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...
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March
14,
2023
| 15:08 PM America/Los_Angeles
In her former life, Britton Neubacher was a crisis worker. To spruce up an otherwise drab environment, and because the organization she worked for didn’t have money for elaborate decorations, she would stuff her drop-in center with plants.“The more p...
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March
08,
2023
| 16:10 PM America/Los_Angeles
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...
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March
08,
2023
| 08:28 AM America/Los_Angeles
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...
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March
02,
2023
| 07:34 AM America/Los_Angeles
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...
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February
28,
2023
| 11:31 AM America/Los_Angeles
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 ...
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February
28,
2023
| 09:41 AM America/Los_Angeles
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...
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February
27,
2023
| 12:32 PM America/Los_Angeles
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...
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February
27,
2023
| 10:28 AM America/Los_Angeles
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...
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February
21,
2023
| 08:00 AM America/Los_Angeles
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...
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February
20,
2023
| 13:31 PM America/Los_Angeles
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...
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February
20,
2023
| 08:00 AM America/Los_Angeles
“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...
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February
13,
2023
| 20:12 PM America/Los_Angeles
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...
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February
13,
2023
| 08:06 AM America/Los_Angeles
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...
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February
09,
2023
| 15:13 PM America/Los_Angeles
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...
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February
01,
2023
| 14:00 PM America/Los_Angeles
Cal State San Marcos’ electrical engineering program is known for being robust, exemplary and state-of-the-art, even though it was established just four years ago. Many attribute the program’s success to founding faculty member Dr. Reza Kamali, who t...
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February
01,
2023
| 11:10 AM America/Los_Angeles
On Friday, a new concert venue will open in Del Mar with a performance by reggae star Ziggy Marley, an eight-time Grammy winner.The Sound is a $17 million facility with a footprint of 9,500 square feet and capacity for 1,900 spectators. Open to all a...
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February
01,
2023
| 08:35 AM America/Los_Angeles
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...
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February
01,
2023
| 08:31 AM America/Los_Angeles
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...
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February
01,
2023
| 08:30 AM America/Los_Angeles
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...
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January
12,
2023
| 14:06 PM America/Los_Angeles
Fourteen students in a biotechnology course at Cal State San Marcos traveled to Tokyo this month to visit impressive laboratories, attend insightful lectures and interact with professionals from widely successful industries.The trip featured students...
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January
10,
2023
| 17:07 PM America/Los_Angeles
A presentation by a nationally recognized activist in the movement to end child sexual abuse highlights the spring lineup of the longstanding Arts & Lectures series at Cal State San Marcos.  This season boasts a diverse selection of seven events as t...
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2022
December
19,
2022
| 08:00 AM America/Los_Angeles
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...
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December
06,
2022
| 11:49 AM America/Los_Angeles
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...
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December
05,
2022
| 12:42 PM America/Los_Angeles
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...
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December
01,
2022
| 15:00 PM America/Los_Angeles
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...
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December
01,
2022
| 08:30 AM America/Los_Angeles
Cal State San Marcos broke Giving Day records for the second straight year, raising $561,378 in just 24 hours on Nov. 29. “We’re ecstatic about breaking the university’s Giving Day record,” said Jessica Berger, vice president for University Advanceme...
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November
28,
2022
| 15:07 PM America/Los_Angeles
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...
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November
22,
2022
| 11:57 AM America/Los_Angeles
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...
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