Award-winning author Adam Higginbotham will discuss his latest book about the 1986 tragedy of the space shuttle Challenger in which the lives of all seven astronauts on board were lost. Presented by the Department of History and the John M. Pfau Library, the talk will be at noon Monday, April 20, on Zoom.
Father Gregory Boyle, the founder of Homeboy Industries, a gang intervention program in Los Angeles, will discuss his latest book, “Cherished Belonging: The Healing Power of Love in Divided Times,” at the March 11 Conversations on Race and Policing. Free and open to the public, the program will begin at noon on Zoom.
CSUSB Libraries’ membership gives library users the ability to browse, search and view materials online from a range of disciplines, including African history, economics, French literature, solar energy and public health. The collection includes works published in more than 400 languages.
Journalist and author Eric Lichtblau will discuss his latest book, “American Reich: A Murder in Orange County, Neo-Nazis, and a New Age of Hate,” at the Jan. 28 Conversations on Race and Policing. The free program on Zoom kicks off the series’ spring 2026 slate.
Brianna Nofil, assistant professor of history at William & Mary, will discuss her book, “The Migrant’s Jail: An American History of Mass Incarceration,” at the Nov. 12 program, which will begin at noon on Zoom.
Cristina Mora, the Chancellor’s Professor of Sociology at UC Berkeley, will present “Normalizing Inequality: How Californians Make Sense of the Growing Divide,” at noon Thursday, Oct. 16, in person at CSUSB’s Faculty Center for Excellence.
Scheduled to present this month are Rahim Kurwa on Oct. 8, Stefan M. Bradley on Oct. 15, Alec Karakatsanis on Oct. 22, Menika Dirkson on Oct. 29, and Brianna Nofil on Nov. 12. All have recently published books on the topic of race and policing. The programs will be streamed on Zoom and are free and open to the public.
The donation by Anne and George Stoll, along with a $10,000 gift to the library’s Special Collections & University Archives — the largest monetary contribution in the department’s history — promises to enrich teaching and research at CSUSB well into the future.
To help kick off Hispanic Heritage Month on campus, the “Pop-Tart, Pop-In!” event at noon Monday, Sept. 15, will feature free copies — on first-come, first-served basis — of Julia Alvarez’s “How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents,” a novel that explores the lives of two sisters who emigrate from the Dominican Republic to New York.