2023
May
23,
2023
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15:30 PM
America/Los_Angeles
Cal State San Marcos has received a grant from the National Institutes of Health to fund a novel project that will offer mindfulness training to STEM students who are preparing for graduate school.The grant of about $80,000 covers a term of one year ...
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May
09,
2023
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14:03 PM
America/Los_Angeles
Students and alumni fondly recount their time at Cal State San Marcos, and of those who have majored in mathematics, one common thread is shared: experiences with mathematics professor Dr. André Kündgen.For over 22 years, Kündgen has walked into his ...
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May
04,
2023
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13:54 PM
America/Los_Angeles
Cal State San Marcos professor Darci Strother is part of a California State University team that has won a prestigious national award for training faculty to help students with their mental health.The CSU received the Momentum Award at the Mental Hea...
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April
24,
2023
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11:56 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Nahid Ebrahimi Majd earned the 2022-23 Outstanding Faculty Award for Teaching Innovation & Excellence for her work in curriculum development and student engagement. An associate professor of computer science, she constantly advocates that students s...
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April
11,
2023
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16:49 PM
America/Los_Angeles
Cal State San Marcos physics professor Justin Perron led a California State University-wide effort that has resulted in a grant of more than $2.5 million from the U.S. Department of Energy that will help develop a workforce capable of thriving in a q...
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March
29,
2023
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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
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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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February
28,
2023
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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
13,
2023
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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
01,
2023
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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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January
31,
2023
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14:17 PM
America/Los_Angeles
Cal State San Marcos biology professor Bianca Mothé has won the 2023 Andreoli Faculty Service Award, which honors California State University faculty who have demonstrated the highest level of service to the system’s biotechnology community.Mothé rec...
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January
25,
2023
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08:30 AM
America/Los_Angeles
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...
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2022
December
14,
2022
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16:59 PM
America/Los_Angeles
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...
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December
05,
2022
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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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November
28,
2022
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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
17,
2022
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14:57 PM
America/Los_Angeles
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...
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November
03,
2022
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12:10 PM
America/Los_Angeles
Cal State San Marcos is preparing to open a new center on campus dedicated to the practice of mindfulness.The Center for Contemplative Practices officially will launch on Thursday, Nov. 10 with an event in the Kellogg Library Reading Room from 4-6 p....
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October
25,
2022
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08:30 AM
America/Los_Angeles
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...
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October
20,
2022
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08:09 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Three Cal State San Marcos marketing professors are the editors behind a new book about culture-based marketing.Glen Brodowsky, professor of marketing; Rebeca Perren, associate professor of marketing; and Camille Schuster, professor emerita of market...
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October
07,
2022
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13:59 PM
America/Los_Angeles
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...
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October
07,
2022
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13:24 PM
America/Los_Angeles
Two Cal State San Marcos education professors have received a five-year, $3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education that will allow them to continue and expand their work improving the instruction of English learners in the region.The gra...
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September
26,
2022
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10:40 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Cal State San Marcos physics professor Gerardo Dominguez has received a three-year, $1.2 million grant from NASA through which he has joined a nationwide team of scientists that will analyze samples from a mission to a near-Earth asteroid and try to ...
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September
16,
2022
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08:44 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Cal State San Marcos has been awarded a nearly $3 million, five-year grant from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) to invest in its newest education pillar, the COMPASS training program. COMPASS, which stands for Creating Oppor...
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September
13,
2022
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15:30 PM
America/Los_Angeles
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...
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September
12,
2022
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15:09 PM
America/Los_Angeles
Cal State San Marcos anthropology professor Konane Martinez has been appointed as the new faculty director of the National Latino Research Center.As faculty director, Martinez will oversee new projects analyzing data from the 2020 U.S. Census and the...
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September
12,
2022
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11:52 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Cal State San Marcos assistant history professor Suzanna Krivulskaya has been named a public fellow by the Public Religion Research Institute, a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization based in Washington, D.C.Krivulskaya was one of 16 interdisc...
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September
12,
2022
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09:41 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Ed Price pursued physics as a discipline because he views science and technology as a beautiful way to better understand the world around us.Price also believes that kind of knowledge should be available to everyone, not just people – like him – who ...
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September
07,
2022
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08:30 AM
America/Los_Angeles
As a professor of biological sciences at Cal State San Marcos, Carlos Luna Lopez occasionally is approached by representatives of the scores of biotech companies in the region, seeking his scientific expertise. Last fall, a biotech startup came to hi...
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September
02,
2022
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09:33 AM
America/Los_Angeles
It was back in May that Americans, still weary from the seemingly never-ending fight against COVID-19, began to hear about another contagious virus called monkeypox. Monkeypox, of course, has not spread with anything close to the speed or ferocity o...
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August
29,
2022
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12:16 PM
America/Los_Angeles
Cal State San Marcos is welcoming new and returning students to the start of the fall semester, which began Monday with what is expected to be the largest first-time freshman class in university history. For the first time since the pandemic began, t...
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