Dennis (Denny) J. O’Connor, Cal State Fullerton professor emeritus of finance, died in his home on April 5, 2024. He was 88 years old. O’Connor was born on May 31, 1935 in the Bronx, New York, to Eleanor Thuemmes and Dennis Paul O’Connor. Despite losing his father at 5 years old, O’Connor embraced life in […]
Cal State Fullerton music professor and internationally acclaimed cellist Bongshin Ko will perform as a featured soloist in the Korea-U.S. Friendship Culture Festival on Sept. 15 in New York City’s Central Park. She will perform two solo works composed by Jacque Offenbach and Astor Piazolla with the Seocho Philharmonia Orchestra at the world-famous Rumsey Playfield […]
Cal State Fullerton will host its 2024 Convocation and State of the University event on Sept. 19 from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in Meng Concert Hall. CSUF President Ronald Rochon will deliver his first convocation address since becoming CSUF’s 10th president on July 22, focusing on the university’s achievements over the past year and […]
Cal State Fullerton’s Career Center invites all campus and academic departments to participate in the Part-Time and Seasonal Job Fair on Sept. 19 from 3-5:30 p.m. in the Titan Student Union. This event provides campus partners the opportunity to promote their student assistant positions to students in attendance. The Career Center will accommodate the first […]
Cal State Fullerton’s Academic Senate leadership for the 2024-25 academic year includes new and returning members. Most were elected during the electoral meeting on May 16, while two additional members were elected to fill vacant seats during the first meeting of the academic year on Aug. 29. The executive committee consists of the following members: […]
David Sandner, Cal State Fullerton professor of English, comparative literature and linguistics, is the co-author of a new fantasy and science fiction novel titled,”Egyptian Motherlode.” “Egyptian Motherlode” is a story about American music. In the novel, a mystical musician known as The Prophet uses music to bend reality and contact other realms. The novel takes […]
Diagnosed with HIV/AIDS at the age of 26, Austin Nation faced his own mortality until the release of the life-extending drug AZT. Now 40 years old, Nation is living his best life as a drag performer and an associate professor of nursing at Cal State Fullerton. His autobiographical show, “Becoming Austin Nation — From Crack […]
Cal State Fullerton’s School of Accountancy at the College of Business and Economics is the premier West Coast destination for a high-tech, data-focused and world-class accounting education. As the only program accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business for accounting education in Orange County, the school and the broader college are among a small […]
Christine Capetola, assistant professor of African American studies and accomplished scholar of queer, Black, sound, affect and performance studies, died July 30, 16 months after being diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Capetola joined Cal State Fullerton in fall 2021 in a postdoctoral fellow position awarded by the American Council of Learned Societies and transitioned to teaching […]
Cal State Fullerton’s Office of Faculty Affairs and Records announced the tenure and/or promotion of 69 faculty members. Recipients are listed by college with their new titles, effective Aug. 19. Promotion ArtsLisa Draskovich-Long, professor of theatre and danceAndrew Fedak, professor of artAmanda Rose Villarreal, associate professor of theatre and dance Business and EconomicsKen Guo, professor […]