NOTE: Faculty, if you are interviewed and quoted by news media, or if your work has been cited, and you have an online link to the article or video, please let us know. Contact us at news@csusb.edu.

Fossils are scientific evidence, and shouldn’t be auctioned for millions to private buyers
The Conversation
Aug. 13, 2025
Stuart Sumida (biology), president of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, coauthored an article about the trend of fossils being sold at auctions to private collections. The authors wrote that fossils held by private collectors stymies scientific research. “Paleontological research is only scientific if the specimens under study are catalogued in public institutions that ensure access in perpetuity, so that other researchers can examine and continually assess and reassess the data fossils preserve,” they wrote.

Exclusive: David Lynch protégé, a CSUSB alumnus and lecturer, offers first look at directorial debut
Welcome to Twin Peaks
When David Lynch saw CSUSB alumnus Johnny Coffeen's short film “The Swan Girl,” he called it “pretty damn good.” Today, you can preview the teaser for his directorial debut, “The Avalanche.” Coffeen, who won a 2016 Student Academy Award for “Swan Girl,” is a lecturer in the Department of Communication and Media.

CSUSB professor interviewed about ‘loud budgeting’
WalletHub
Aug. 19, 2025
Thomas Chapman, assistant professor of cybersecurity, was featured on the personal finance website’s recent article about “loud budgeting,” a term popularized by TikToker Lukas Battle, as the opposite of “quiet luxury.” While the video was made in a joking manner, it’s become a viral trend, with people discussing the idea seriously of actually sticking to their personal budgets in making decisions, and making those decisions known to others.

Miller named outstanding educator
IE Business Daily
Aug. 17, 2025
Bob Miller, a member of Cal State San Bernardino’s public administration faculty, has been named the 2025 Outstanding Educator by the Inland Empire Chapter of the American Society for Public Administration.

Hemet’s Western Science Center hosted PaleoCon fossil-themed event
The Press-Enterprise
Aug. 15, 2025
Before the event took place, the newspaper reported that Stuart Sumida, paleontologist and professor of biology at Cal State San Bernardino, was one of the presenters at the third-annual PaleoCon, a fossil-themed event at the Western Science Center in Hemet that took place on Aug. 16.

Experts fear Trump administration’s use of ‘dehumanizing’ memes is ‘a jump to actual violence’
The Independent via MSN
Aug. 13, 2025
In an article on the Trump administration’s use of memes, art and music to promote immigration policies, Brian Levin, founder of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism and professor emeritus at Cal State San Bernardino, was quoted by WIRED, stating that short, emotionally charged bursts of imagery often resonate more deeply than facts.

Deeper learning offers opportunities for imagination without cost to content knowledge
Thinking Skills and Creativity
Anahid S. Modrek (psychology) published research about deeper learning, the results of which “support our hypotheses suggesting stronger learning opportunities provided by teachers at treatment schools enacting deeper learning. In both math and English language (ELA) subjects, opportunities to be imaginative can be developed without sacrificing knowledge-based, content learning.

Ocular measures of controlled processing: Examining the use of proactive cognitive control in the AX-CPT
Memory & Cognition
Jason F. Reimer (psychology) and Kevin P. Rosales (child development) published a study on proactive cognitive control that “aimed to determine whether proactive control can be measured through patterns of eye movements during the cue–probe delay in a spatially modified AX-CPT.”

Geoarchaeology of Late Pleistocene to Early Holocene Occupation at the EL Peregrino and Colina Castor Sites on Cedros Island, Baja California, Mexico
Geoarchaeology
Matthew R. Des Lauriers (anthropology) was one of the authors of a study that focused on “the geoarchaeological and chronometric analysis of two Late Pleistocene to Early Holocene archaeological sites: El Peregrino (PAIC-88) and Colina Castor (PAIC-91), located on Cedros Island, Baja California, Mexico. Both sites are situated at the base of fossil spring localities above modern sea level and contain stratified cultural materials associated with now-extinct freshwater sources that likely played a critical role in supporting early human occupation within an otherwise arid coastal setting.”

Repeated 5-HT6 receptor activation facilitates flexible behavior in C57BL/6J mice
Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior
Dionisio A. Amodeo and Leslie R. Amodeo (both psychology) led a team that focused on the serotonin (5-HT) 6 receptor, which “has recently emerged as a novel target for the treatment of cognitive deficits seen in known neuropsychiatric disorders. Their study “examined the impact of 5-HT6 receptor partial agonist EMD 386088 on behavioral flexibility in an operant probabilistic reversal learning paradigm.”

These news clips and others may be viewed at “In the Headlines.”