Zachary Powell, CSUSB assistant professor of criminal justice, will present “Police Reform and Federal Consent Decrees” at the next Conversations on Race and Policing event at 1 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 21, on Zoom.
Brian Levin (criminal justice) was quoted in articles about the United We Stand Summit at the White House on Sept. 15, and Codi Lazar (geological sciences) was interviewed for an article about academic freedom.
Heidy Contreras (biology) was featured in an article about researchers who go beyond traditional mammal models in their study of the animal kingdom, and Brian Levin (criminal justice) was quoted in an article about the threat of white supremacists.
Brian Levin (criminal justice) was appointed to California’s Commission on the State of Hate, Guillermo Escalante (kinesiology), was named to fellowship in the HACU Leadership Academy, and Michael Stull (entrepreneurship) discussed the Inland Empire Center for Entrepreneurship’s 2022 State of Entrepreneurship Minority Report.
Victor Shih, an associate professor from UC San Diego and an expert in the elite politics of China, will present “Coalitions of the Weak: Elite Politics in China from Mao’s Stratagem to the Rise of Xi,” on Sept. 19 on Zoom. The program is free and open to the public.
Levin, founding director of the university’s Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism, is a member of the first cohort of commissioners appointed by Gov. Gavin Newsom to the newly formed panel that will track hate crimes in California and make recommendations to the governor, state Legislature and state agencies on how to fight hate.
Annika Anderson (sociology), was interviewed about formerly incarcerated individuals reentering society, Brittany Bloodhart (psychology) commented on a Title IX case at Cal Poly Humboldt, and Bryan Haddock (kinesiology) has been appointed CSUSB President Tomás D. Morales’ chief of staff.
The presentation, “Policing Proof: Korryn Gaines, Body Cameras, and Anti-Blackness as a Scene,” by Joshua Aiken will take place at 1 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 14, on Zoom.
Barbara Sirotnik (information and decision sciences), discussed the latest report by the Institute for Applied Research on the region’s economy, and Brian Levin (criminal justice) was quoted for an article introducing a 12-part series on hate crimes in Los Angeles.