
An art news website featured a question-and-answer interview with Daisy Ocampo Diaz (history) about the UCLA Fowler Museum exhibit she helped curate, “Fire Kinship: Southern California Native Ecology and Art.” Also interviewed for a Q-and-A was Michael Stull (entrepreneurship) on the topic of the newest Entrepreneurial Resources Center in Palm Desert.

The lecture series launches its spring semester talks with a presentation by Debora Perez Torres, assistant professor of communication studies, on Feb. 12. Also scheduled are presentations by Michelle Russen (marketing), Yolonda Youngs (geography) and Hannah Kivalahula-Uddin (education). All talks are free and open to the public.

Highlighted in various media is the work of Daisy Ocampo Diaz (history), Sishi Wu (criminal justice), Lisa Looney (child development), Yunfei Hou (computer science and engineering), Miranda McIntyre (psychology), Jesus Herrera (information and decision science), Hani Aldirawi (mathematics), Montgomery Van Wart (public administration), Eric Vogelsang (sociology), Jacob D. Jones (psychology) and Fabian A. Borges (political science).

Cal State San Bernardino accounting students learn to prepare taxes by volunteering in the VITA program on Saturdays and Thursdays from Feb. 1 through April 5.

CSUSB’s criminal justice and MBA online programs continue to be ranked among the top programs in the nation – and in California – by the highly regarded U.S. News & World Report.

Jerrold Coakley, senior vice president at Stater Bros. Markets, has been appointed the chair, and Bud Weisbart, co-owner and vice president of A&R Tarpaulins, Inc., has been appointed as vice chair of the Jack H. Brown College of Business & Public Administration Advisory Board.

Maggie Boyraz, associate professor of management at Cal State San Bernardino, embarked on her academic journey as both a first-generation immigrant to the United States and the first in her family to attend college. She is now a respected professor and researcher, who is cited more than 400 times on Google Scholar and recently published an article in the esteemed Journal of Organizational Behavior.

Mike Stull (entrepreneurship) discusses U.S. Bank becoming an affiliate of the Inland Empire Center for Entrepreneurship, and Brian Levin (criminal justice, emeritus) expressed concern about the president-elect’s rhetoric concerning the New Year’s Day attacks and how it may influence violence by vigilantes, and what may have influenced the alleged attackers.

CSUSB’s Jack H. Brown College of Business and Public Administration, in collaboration with University Police Department and the Student Health Center, recently concluded the Annual Toy Drive, bringing in $7,000-$8,000 worth of toys – enough to fill a classroom. The toys were delivered to local nonprofit, Partners Against Violence.