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The UN Environment Program’s chief environmental economist and senior economic advisor, Pushpam Kumar, will present his talk, “Making Nature Count through Inclusive Wealth Measurement,” on May 28 at CSUSB.
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No matter what path our Coyotes take after graduation, they are prepared to tackle the workforce and excel. One in five CSUSB students with a bachelor’s degree attends graduate or professional schools after graduation.
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Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles of faculty and their research by Montgomery Van Wart, a professor of public administration and a CSUSB Faculty Research Fellow in Faculty Affairs and Development. In this article, he features Wagner Prado, assistant professor of kinesiology, who has consistently shown he has what it takes to make him a high-quality senior scholar.
![TEAM She ME, an alternate team enacted in less than 48 hours, ends up being the top winner of their category.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/upload/image/21_4621_SOE_Innovation_Challenge_Screenshot_2.jpg.webp?itok=i9JxiXzs)
TEAM She ME, an all-female group of CSUSB students, took first place in the undergraduate category at the university’s 4th annual Innovation Challenge.
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As part of our celebration of Asia Pacific Islander Heritage Month take a look back at an interview with Tony Lo, a bio-premed major and midfielder on the CSUSB Coyotes men’s soccer team, as he talks about his student-athlete experience at the university.
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“The students are my reason for everything at CSUSB and everything I do with everyone else is in some way to give back to help them, help them reach their dreams,” said Carol Hood, recipient of the Outstanding Faculty Advisor award.
![Stuart Sumida, CSUSB professor of biology, was the animation consultant on the Oscar-winning "Soul."](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/upload/image/NewsSlide_CNS_SoulGoldenGlobe_Sumida_05Mar2021_0.jpg.webp?itok=41rGides)
He’s a sought-after animation film consultant with a specialty in anatomy who worked on Pixar’s “Soul,” the winner of both the 2021 Academy Award and the 2021 Golden Globe for Best Animated Film.
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Stuart Sumida (biology) was interviewed about his work as an animation consultant on some of Hollywood’s blockbuster films, including Academy Award-nominated “Soul,” and Bomi Hwang (Korean Language and Culture) was honored as the university’s Outstanding Lecturer.
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CSUSB’s Model United Nations team fielded its first-ever all-female team as it awarded the Outstanding Delegation at the 2021 National MUN New York Conference.