Articles tagged with 'Research' | CSUSM

CSUSM NewsCenter (Research)

2022
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
09,
2022
| 08:25 AM America/Los_Angeles
For more than 20 years, the Center for Training Research and Educational Excellence (CTREE) has given ambitious students a home and a safe space to explore their new and longstanding goals. With over $11 million in funding and a 100% success rate in ...
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September
26,
2022
| 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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May
16,
2022
| 11:27 AM America/Los_Angeles
A history major without much interest in American history, Katelyn Peterson decided to tap into her love of old Western films when taking a risk on a topic for a recent research paper for her class on Native California history.The risk paid off.Peter...
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January
31,
2022
| 08:00 AM America/Los_Angeles
Cal State San Marcos has received a grant of $1.3 million from a state agency to train students in research that will help them reduce tobacco-related disease in their communities.The four-year grant funded by the California Tobacco Related Disease R...
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2021
December
09,
2021
| 15:08 PM America/Los_Angeles
A team of Cal State San Marcos faculty and staff have collaborated on an article that recently was published in the Journal of Hispanic Higher Education.  The article, titled “Examining Field Experiences of Teacher Candidates During COVID-19: Systemi...
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November
19,
2021
| 15:56 PM America/Los_Angeles
Cal State San Marcos psychology professor Daniel Berry has written a manuscript on the intersection of mindfulness meditation and interracial social interactions that has been published in the academic journal Social Psychological and Personality Sci...
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October
26,
2021
| 08:00 AM America/Los_Angeles
Cal State San Marcos professor Bonnie Bade is part of a team of academic researchers who came together last year to study the effects of COVID-19 on the vulnerable population of farmworkers throughout the state.  The COVID-19 Farmworker Study (COFS) ...
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October
04,
2021
| 08:30 AM America/Los_Angeles
The end of the semester last spring was always going to be a challenge for Ruby Reyes. The Cal State San Marcos student had to juggle final exams and projects in her human development classes with her job working in the DREAMer Resource Office and se...
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August
18,
2021
| 09:06 AM America/Los_Angeles
By any measure, homelessness has become an epidemic in San Diego. According to a report by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development compiled in 2020 and released this March, the city and surrounding area (which includes North County) rank...
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June
11,
2021
| 08:30 AM America/Los_Angeles
Naturally a glass-half-full person, Arun Sethuraman is known to friends, family and colleagues as a source of happiness and a conduit of positive vibes.It’s not unusual to see Sethuraman smiling while teaching, sitting in on a meeting or simply walki...
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April
27,
2021
| 08:38 AM America/Los_Angeles
As a political science major, Cal State San Marcos sophomore Julia Glorioso is used to writing papers and participating in discussions about public policy and law.So when she decided to write and produce a film for her final project assignment for a ...
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2019
August
05,
2019
| 08:00 AM America/Los_Angeles
Living more than 3,000 miles from her family in Colombia isn’t easy for Cal State San Marcos student Silvia Sherman. Though Silvia is grateful for a strong support system of friends in North County, it’s still challenging being a single mom attend...
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2018
August
08,
2018
| 09:30 AM America/Los_Angeles
Cal State San Marcos is one of six California State University campuses that earned National Science Foundation funding to support educational opportunities for math and science students pursuing a K-12 teaching credential. CSUSM will receive $842...
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April
13,
2018
| 08:22 AM America/Los_Angeles
Cal State San Marcos is going high-tech in an effort to bolster enforcement of its recently implemented smoke- and tobacco-free campus policy. The new endeavor will utilize a cellphone-friendly tracking app to scan QR codes placed on existing sign...
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2017
August
11,
2017
| 10:00 AM America/Los_Angeles
One of the attributes that attracted Ed Price to Cal State San Marcos was the opportunity to be on the ground floor in developing new programs. “Having been involved in the development, for instance, of our applied physics degree, it’s tremendousl...
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May
08,
2017
| 02:00 AM America/Los_Angeles
It’s all about developing student scholars. So says Dr. Jennifer Fabbi, Dean of the University Library, in discussing the 2nd annual Library Award for Undergraduate Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity – a Cal State San Marcos honor recogni...
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April
24,
2017
| 14:42 PM America/Los_Angeles
Ana Hernandez knows the value of being bilingual in the teaching profession. At the end of March, she took 16 Cal State San Marcos School of Education students to the California Association for Bilingual Education conference in Anaheim. She has...
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April
13,
2017
| 11:38 AM America/Los_Angeles
Get ready for a tobacco-free environment. Cal State San Marcos, which already limits tobacco use to designated smoking areas, will become a completely smoke- and tobacco-free campus beginning in fall 2017. Electronic cigarettes will also be banned...
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January
24,
2017
| 09:32 AM America/Los_Angeles
Jesus Perez was on his way to an early-morning summer school math class last June when he received an email from the U.S. Department of Energy. Jesus, an applied physics major at Cal State San Marcos, knew the email’s content would detail whether ...
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2016
December
20,
2016
| 13:45 PM America/Los_Angeles
Sinem Siyahhan is used to receiving incredulous looks when she refers to the first-person shooter video game “Halo” as family friendly. But Siyahhan, an assistant professor of educational technology and learning sciences in Cal State San Marcos’ S...
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December
13,
2016
| 14:58 PM America/Los_Angeles
Want to quickly measure the level of air pollution inside a building? There’s an app for that. Or there will be soon, thanks to a grant-funded research project led by Dr. Ali Ahmadinia, a professor in the Department of Computer Science at Cal Stat...
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October
31,
2016
| 14:14 PM America/Los_Angeles
Eliza Bigham knows from experience the importance of culturally appropriate toys for children in different countries. While on a trip to Vietnam with one of her Cal State San Marcos Human Development classes a few years ago, Bigham saw tour vans p...
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October
27,
2016
| 08:22 AM America/Los_Angeles
Faculty members in Cal State San Marcos’ human development program are in agreement when it comes to their students: The students all want to make a difference in people’s lives. “These kids want to change the world, and they can have a major that...
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September
15,
2016
| 08:23 AM America/Los_Angeles
Edward Price recalls sitting in most of his classes while somebody lectured to him when he was a student. “We have a lot of evidence now that that’s not a very effective way for people to learn science, and physics in particular,” said Price, a pr...
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August
05,
2016
| 13:06 PM America/Los_Angeles
CSUSM study team receives national award for findings in 10-year study.
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June
13,
2016
| 11:07 AM America/Los_Angeles
Surfing might just be the closest thing a person can get to walking on water. Those who practice the sport—and rough estimates place the number at about 20 million worldwide—cite the adrenaline rush, the escape from the daily grind and the earthy sub...
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June
08,
2016
| 10:25 AM America/Los_Angeles
Yvonne Nalani Meulemans can thank the fruit flies of Hawai’i for leading her to Cal State San Marcos, where she leads a team of librarians preparing students to become skilled researchers. While working during her undergraduate days at the Univers...
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May
26,
2016
| 12:57 PM America/Los_Angeles
The CSUSM University Library is central to working with students to help them become not only critical consumers of information but also creators of information. Now, a new award aims to highlight extraordinary research projects by undergraduate stud...
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April
27,
2016
| 12:16 PM America/Los_Angeles
California State University Chancellor White met with Cal State San Marcos faculty, staff and students on Monday, April 25, as part of his yearlong “Innovations in the Classroom” 23-campus tour. It was White’s fourth visit to CSUSM during his more th...
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