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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 welcomed first-year and transfer students to the Cougar family on Saturday during New Student and Family Convocation, an annual celebration held in the Sports Center.The event included remarks from, among others, President Ellen …

An event showcasing the cultural consultants who helped bring the live-action “Moana” to life highlights the fall lineup of the longstanding Arts & Lectures series at Cal State San Marcos.This season boasts a diverse selection of eight events as …

When he started out as a Cal State San Marcos student, Tony Acevedo’s relationship with history was simple: It was just a subject that he had to take to fulfill the university’s general education requirements.But something happened along the way. …

For Alyssa Helmantoler, the path to becoming a teacher began in a pottery studio. Helmantoler had planned to major in speech-language pathology, but a part-time job leading art classes for children shifted her direction …

As Karen Julian prepares to take the stage for graduation, she looks back on her life and recalls the many hardships she has faced to bring her to this moment. The journey wasn’t easy, but she couldn’t be prouder of the person she has become.Julian, …

More than 4,000 students are expected to graduate from Cal State San Marcos this academic year, including six standouts from the Class of 2026 who are receiving special recognition for their achievements.Honorees were nominated by faculty or staff …

The Cal State San Marcos art, media and design department will host a new exhibit, “[DIS]COMFORT,” with an opening reception in the Arts Building lobby from 4-7 p.m. on Thursday, May 7. The exhibition will be available to view through May …

Creativity plays a vital role in how we understand the world and one another. At Cal State San Marcos, President Ellen Neufeldt has turned that conviction into a tradition, …

Jason Magabo Perez, a Cal State San Marcos associate professor of ethnic studies, served on the creative production team as poet and scholar for “Burden of Proof,” a multimedia dance-theater production recently presented by Kularts, a Filipino arts …

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, …

On a Tuesday in early March, a procession of 28 fifth-grade students marched into the Innovation Hub at Cal State San Marcos and took their seats at a series of tables.As the kids had just come from lunch, cases of the wiggles were rampant, but it …

When Taylor Miller-Wing tells people what he does for a living, he often feels like he has initiated a game of 20 questions.When, in February, the curious people asking those questions weren’t random strangers but rather elite athletes who had just …

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,” …

It is with great sadness that we share the news of our colleague Dr. Patty Seleski’s passing on Friday, Feb. 27. She will be deeply missed across our campus community.Patty joined CSUSM back in 1990, becoming just the second faculty member of the …

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 Dance Studies department is hosting a series of workshops throughout the spring, including two upcoming events featuring Daunté Fyall, a dance instructor, performing artist, choreographer, motivational speaker and founder of the West African …

Clayton Manassero was reading through an email newsletter from Cal State San Marcos’ Career Center when he came across an opportunity that sounded almost too good to be true.It was for a semester-long program in Washington, D.C., where students …

Shanelle Watkins often thinks about several previous iterations of herself.She thinks about the version who had just graduated from Cal State San Marcos and still harbored some self-doubt, unsure how she would turn her sociology degree into a …

Two members of the Cal State San Marcos community have been nominated for the Craig Noel Award for “Outstanding Featured Performance in a Play.” Hosted annually by the San Diego Theatre Critics …

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 …

Illeana Carmona Chavez arrived at Cal State San Marcos certain she was headed for law school. But after she graduates with her bachelor’s in criminology and justice studies this spring, she will embark on a far different course, one that has taken …

A celebration of life for CSUSM professor Dustin Cavillo will be held 2-4 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 16, at the Faculty Center Suite Sometimes we get lost in life between that blurry area of who we are as workers vs. who we are as humans.We often are …

As the end of the year approaches, many are already looking ahead to 2026.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 2025. Hunter …

This week, Cameron Aquino will finish her seventh and final semester at Cal State San Marcos, having graduated a semester early with a Bachelor of Arts in psychological science.Barring a disastrous outcome of her finals, she will finish as a member …

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 …

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 …