As CSUSB’s chief academic officer, A. Rafik Mohamed works to help the university’s entire teaching corps excel, with the overall goal of helping students define their own future.
Cerise Castle, who wrote an award-winning investigative project on deputy gangs in the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, appear on the weekly program at 1 p.m. Feb. 28 on Zoom.
Nena Torrez (education) was interviewed for a segment on the Project Impact initiative to increase the number of K-12 male teachers of color, and Annika Anderson (sociology) discussed the work of Project Rebound, which assists the formerly incarcerated enroll at CSUSB and obtain their college degrees.
Brian Levin (criminal justice) was interviewed for a segment on the increase in antisemitic incidents in Los Angeles, and Montgomery van Wart (public administration) and Mirada McIntyre (psychology) collaborated on an article on “the interlocking concepts of social inclusion, social exclusion, radicalization, and societal collapse.”
Rigaud Joseph works to be an advocate for the marginalized through teaching and research, noting that social work places a strong emphasis on using theories in classroom as well as in clinical settings.
Matthew Des Lauriers (anthropology) was interviewed for an article about the arrival of the first humans in the Americas, and Janet Kottke (psychology) cowrote an article about online industrial-organizational (I-O) master’s programs.
Sonia Otte, MSPA founding program director, Daniel MacDonald, associate professor and chair of the economics department, and Brian Levin, director of CSUSB’s Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism, were each interviewed in their area of expertise.
The 12 winners from the 37th annual CSUSB Student Research Competition will represent the university at this year’s CSU statewide Student Research Competition April 28-29 at San Diego State University.
A paper on U.S.-Mexico border issues by Kimberly Collins (public administration) was cited in an article, Brian Levin (criminal justice) commented on an arrest of a suspect who shot two Jewish men in Los Angeles, and a paper Pablo Gomez (psychology) cowrote on letter-similarity effects occur in reading braille was published.