Articles tagged with 'faculty' | CSUSM

Merryl Goldberg was at a birthday party in La Jolla several years ago when she struck up a conversation with a married couple whom she didn’t know.As often happens, the talk turned to careers. Goldberg told the couple (their names turned out to be …

Cal State San Marcos social work professor Jimmy Young will be speaking at the Network for Social Work Management (NSWM) Forward Thinking Summit, which is Sept. 16-18. The theme of the summit, “Macro Social Work in Action: Integrated Leadership, …

The U.S. National Science Foundation is renewing its support for the NSF Quantum Leap Challenge Institute for Quantum Computation (NSF CIQC), a multi-institutional research center spanning California and led by UC Berkeley.The far-reaching grant …

The Cal State San Marcos Foundation Board has welcomed seven new directors for the 2026-27 academic year.  Under the leadership of Chair Simon Kuo, retired vice president of corporate quality at Viasat, and Vice Chair Kristin Crellin, senior vice …

Ben Cherry, a professor of management for Cal State San Marcos’ College of Business Administration and the faculty athletics representative, is serving as chair of the NCAA Division II Management Council. Cherry assumed the role in January after the …

For many students, quantum physics education centers on theory, with few opportunities for hands-on experience. Cal State San Marcos physics professor Justin Perron aims to change that. Perron is leading a three-year, $1,085,815 …

A team of 17 Cal State San Marcos students recently competed and won two major awards at the National Model United Nations (NMUN) conference in New York City.Representing Mexico, the team won the Outstanding Delegation Award, and one of the members, …

Alhelí Calderón Villarreal, an assistant professor in Cal State San Marcos’ public health department, is the author or co-author of two recent studies that have been published in research journals.The two studies are:"Health Risks and Cross-Border …

Kimberly Ayers is like a lot of people when it comes to phone calls from numbers she doesn’t recognize – she ignores them.But in January, one of those unknown callers left a voicemail.The person said they were calling from the TV game show …

Cal State San Marcos literature and writing studies professor Susie Lan Cassel and public historian Michael Yee will present a talk next month about San Diego’s early Chinatown.The discussion will take place on Monday, April 6 from 5:30-8 p.m. at …

Cal State San Marcos communication professor Andrew Spieldenner is part of a group hosting a meeting in San Diego next week about the history and future of AIDS activism.The public talk, titled “Knowledge of AIDS: Civic Participation and Activism,” …

Three years ago, a group of Cal State San Marcos professors and staff members received grant funding that established a project to bring greater visibility to Asian, Pacific Islander and Desi American (APIDA) communities that have been underserved, …

Cal State San Marcos lecturer Rajee Samarasinghe received a major prize at the recent Film Independent Spirit Awards, the premier annual awards ceremony dedicated solely to honoring independent film and television, celebrating artists who work …

The Faculty Center next week will host its Teaching & Learning Expo, an annual event that showcases teaching expertise from Cal State San Marcos faculty and builds faculty-to-faculty community. The expo will take place on Friday, Feb. 27 …

The event that inspired the class project was imaginary. But for Sonia Ellis and fellow Cal State San Marcos art students, the payoff was very real.Last year, Ellis was a student in AMD 409: Advanced Graphic Design and Visual Arts, an upper-division …

Shannon Switzer Swanson, a Cal State San Marcos assistant professor of environmental studies, is involved in a statewide research project that seeks to understand how Californians value the Pacific coastline and the barriers they face in accessing …

For Jon Spenard, the start of this school year was hectic beyond the typical reasons – and beyond his wildest imagination.Spenard, you see, is an archaeology professor at Cal State San Marcos, and it was in about late August that archaeologists from …

For education professor Rebecca Brooks, receiving $2.5 million in grants to expand the Aspiring Scholars program is a dream come true.  “It’s incredibly meaningful to give students with …

Until recently, Darci Strother’s acting career consisted entirely of playing the lead role of a hippopotamus in one play. This was in third grade.So imagine her surprise when director Antonio Muñoz de Mesa approached Strother – a Spanish professor …

After he stopped touring full-time as a musician several years ago, Aaron Humble increased his pace of sending out feelers to conductors of groups that fly in musicians for a week-long project that often ends in a CD-quality recording.As it often …

Fernando Amador likes to call himself an accidental archivist.Long before he was an assistant professor of history at Cal State San Marcos, Amador was a doctoral student at New York’s Stony Brook University who was doing field work for his …

For Judit Hersko, a two-week voyage to the Arctic Circle last summer was more than a bucket-list adventure.It was the continuation of a two-decade career turn toward venturing to – both physically and emotionally – some of the coldest, most remote …

Carlos Luna Lopez’s typical day in the lab looks a little different from others. Dark, cool and full of machinery like 3D bio printers, the lab is home to petri dishes full of cancerous cells. Inspired by one of his students, his lab cohort is …

When Jonathan Berman came to Cal State San Marcos as a film professor in 2004, he was close to finishing a documentary about a Northern California commune during the counterculture era.The documentary was released the following year. Now, 20 years …

The STEM field is a continuously growing community with many job opportunities available for science students. Cal State San Marcos is committed to providing the resources and support these students need to pursue higher education and integrate …

Teaching in a student population environment of around 2,500 and then moving to one with 17,000-plus is one of the many challenges that Roni Kay O’Dell, a new assistant professor of political science and global affairs, has signed up for this …

Cal State San Marcos welcomed more than 17,000 students, including the largest freshman class in university history of more than 2,700, to kick off the fall semester Monday. Official enrollment numbers will be available following the 2025 fall …

Jason Magabo Perez, a Cal State San Marcos associate professor of ethnic studies, will be a featured performer at the inaugural KPBS San Diego Book Festival this weekend.Perez, who’s also the poet laureate emeritus for the City of San Diego, will …

Soudeh Khoubrouy came to Cal State San Marcos two years ago with an unorthodox mix of expertise: a background in electrical engineering (in which she holds a Ph.D.) combined with a research interest in neuroscience (in which she has a master’s …

Three Cal State San Marcos projects have been selected as winners of the California State University’s first-ever Artificial Intelligence Educational Innovations Challenge (AIEIC).The trio of CSUSM faculty-led projects are among 63 from across the …