Lohuwa Mamudu, assistant professor of public health, was recently awarded the Betty J. Cleckley Minority Issues Award from the Aging in Public Health Section of the American Public Health Association (APHA) for his manuscript, “Assessment of Time to Treatment Initiation of Invasive Lung Cancer: Disparities Within and Between Blacks and Whites in the Appalachian and […]
Social Work Professor and Department Chair, Mikyong Kim-Goh, has been elected to the California Social Work Education Center (CalSWEC) Advisory Board for a three-year term starting this fall. She represents the California Association of Deans and Directors (CADD) of Social Work Schools on the Board. CalSWEC is a statewide consortium of 22 accredited social work […]
Lucia Alcalá, associate professor in the Department of Psychology, recently received a $144,497 award from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The award is part of a collaborative research grant with Lindsey Richland and Katherine Rhodes at the University of California, Irvine. The three-year grant, entitled “Collaborative Research: Integrating Culturally-Responsive Measures and Comparisons to Strengthen Developmental […]
Olga Mejía, associate professor of counseling, was recently awarded the Innovative Counselor Education Program Award by the Western Association for Counselor Education and Supervision (WACES). Mejía conceptualized and constructed the Ánimo Latinx counseling emphasis, which is part of the counseling department in the College of Health and Human Development. The Ánimo emphasis is a specialized […]
Dr. Guadalupe Diaz Lara, assistant professor in the Department of Child & Adolescent Studies has been selected to participate in the English Learner Leadership and Legacy Initiative (ELLLI). ELLLI is a collaboration between Californians Together and California Association for Bilingual Education to support the development of new leaders and advocates for English Learner education across […]
During the COVID-19 pandemic, people all over the world suffered from isolation. Their routines were disrupted and they spent most of their time at home. As a result, more people were less physically active than usual and those that often suffered the most were people with developmental disabilities. In Fall 2020, a kinesiology graduate student, […]
Dallas Stout, ’94, BS Human Services, a lecturer in the Department of Child and Adolescent Studies, has joined the Board of Directors for Tara’s Chance. He was invited after recently donating his $10,000 prize for being named a 2022 Vision Initiative awardee by the Picerne Foundation. Tara’s Chance is a special needs community benefit organization […]
On Friday, August 26, the CSUF Kinesiology and Public Health departments honored 33 esteemed emeriti by unveiling a portrait wall in the KHS building. Bill Beam, kinesiology professor and chair emeritus (1983-2015) was instrumental in planning the event, bringing together alumni, current and former faculty, community members, college leadership, and, of course, the emeriti and […]
Dallas Stout, ’94, BS Human Services, a lecturer in the Department of Child and Adolescent Studies, was awarded a $10,000 2022 Vision Initiative Program award by the Picerne Family Foundation. The foundation created the Vision Initiatives Program to foster and support mental/behavioral health professionals and educators to propose “the project of their dreams.” Stout will apply […]
The School of Nursing and the midwifery community mourn the untimely passing of Betty Johnson Snell, Professor Emeritus in the School of Nursing. Snell joined the CSUF community in 2002 and subsequently developed the Midwifery and Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner Graduate Program in 2006. Along with teaching in these Graduate Programs, Snell created and was […]