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Fraser named CSUSB’s outstanding professor
IE Business Daily
May 11, 2025

Stacy Fraser has been named Cal State San Bernardino’s outstanding professor for the 2024-25 academic year. A music instructor, Fraser was recognized for her “excellence in teaching, research, scholarly and creative activities, and service to students and the campus community.”

What is a miracle, anyway?
Front Porch Republic

Bereavement therapy pioneer Lorraine Hedtke, professor of special education rehabilitation and counseling, was quoted in an article about miracles. The writer of the article cited Hedtke’s book, “Bereavement Support Groups.”

The nation’s oldest and largest Indigenous sorority is bracing for DEI orders
The 19th
May 13, 2025

Marc Robinson, a professor of African American and U.S. history at California State University, San Bernardino, was quoted in an article about the Alpha Pi Omega sorority, which is helping young Native women grow strong in their identities. But the sorority’s future on college campuses is in question with the recent flurry of executive orders from the Trump administration aimed at curbing diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) on college campuses and elsewhere, which could hamper students’ ability to gather and find this kind of belonging on college campuses.

Track record: Unexpectedly early reptile claw prints found
Nature
May 14, 2025

Stuart Sumida, CSUSB professor of paleontology, wrote in an article: “The emergence onto land of four-limbed creatures called tetrapods was a key step in the evolutionary journey of terrestrial organisms, including humans. Writing in Nature, Long et al.1 present evidence for a revised timeline of the evolution of an advanced type of land-dwelling tetrapod called an amniote. These amniotes include the ancestors of living reptiles and mammals.”

Oldest footprints of first ‘reptile’ found by fossil hunters
The Washington Post via MSN
May 14, 2025

Stuart Sumida, a paleontologist at California State University, San Bernardino was quoted in an article about a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature by a team of scientists who said they found the fossilized tracks of a four-legged, clawed creature that had evolved to survive and reproduce entirely on land, away from the shark-swarmed seas where its ancestors first appeared.

Ancient reptile tracks rewrite when animals conquered land
Agence France-Presse via Yahoo!News
May 14, 2025

Stuart Sumida of California State University, San Bernardino commented on a Nature article in which scientists in Australia have identified the oldest known fossil footprints of a reptile-like animal, dated to around 350 million years ago.

How ancient reptile footprints are rewriting the history of when animals evolved to live on land
The Associated Press
May 14, 2025

California State University, San Bernardino paleontologist Stuart Sumida was interviewed for an article about scientists in Australia who have identified the oldest known fossil footprints of a reptile-like animal, dated to around 350 million years ago. The findings were published Wednesday in Nature.

National Trust for Local News sells 21 newspapers to a company with a history of gutting local outlets
Neiman Lab
May 14. 2025

T.C. Corrigan, professor of media studies, was quoted in an article about the nonprofit National Trust for Local News selling 21 Colorado newspapers to the Times Media Groups, which took over four weeklies in the Inland Empire last summer. The situation — along with four Alden-owned dailies that print matching issues across cities like San Bernardino and Riverside — prompted Corrigan to dub the Inland Empire region a “news mirage.”

Desert Forest: Life with Joshua Trees, a talk with Sant Khalsa
Z1077FM
May 10, 2025

Artist, activist, and longtime Joshua Tree resident Sant Khalsa, professor of art emeritus from Cal State San Bernardino, has spent a lifetime listening to the land and advocating for nature. In 2020, she launched “Desert Forest: Life with Joshua Trees”—a multidisciplinary art and science project that became a book, an exhibition, and a call to action. She is a curator and the founding director of the Joshua Tree Center for Photographic Arts.

Conspiracy theories target weather radars (in Spanish)
Cambio16 (Madrid, Spain)

In a Spanish-language magazine article, Brian Levin, founding director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino, was quoted about extremists in the U.S., influenced by a wide range of conspiracy theories that seduce many and drive irrational actions, who are targeting weather radars. The radars, in these extremists’ views, are thought to be government climate weapons.

San Bernardino Symphony Youth Orchestra will present its second concert
The Sun/Redlands Daily Facts/The Press-Enterprise/Inland Valley Daily Bulletin 
May 10, 2025

Adam Arroyo, a classically trained violinist and composer currently studying at Cal State San Bernardino under Kevin Zhang, a board member of the San Bernardino Symphony Orchestra, is the San Bernardino Symphony Youth Orchestra’s newly named composer-in-residence. The orchestra, which will perform its spring concert on May 18, is conducted and directed by Lucy Lewis, associate professor of music at CSUSB.

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